{"id":14511,"date":"2020-03-21T05:44:58","date_gmt":"2020-03-21T10:44:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/?p=14511"},"modified":"2020-03-21T06:03:16","modified_gmt":"2020-03-21T11:03:16","slug":"weekend-a-la-carte-march-21","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/?p=14511","title":{"rendered":"Weekend A La Carte (March 21)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Today&rsquo;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.challies.com\/kindle-deals-for-christians\" data-wpel-link=\"internal\">Kindle deals<\/a> include books new and old&mdash;even a new release from Kristen Wetherell that seems to be a good fit for the times.<\/p>\n<p><em>(Yesterday on the blog: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.challies.com\/articles\/how-to-make-the-most-of-lockdown-tips-from-christians-in-italy\/\" rel=\"bookmark\" data-wpel-link=\"internal\">How To Make the Most of Lockdown (Tips from Christians in Italy)<\/a>)<\/em><\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.michaeljkruger.com\/how-a-you-do-you-culture-has-made-us-vulnerable-to-the-coronavirus\/\" data-wpel-link=\"external\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"external noopener noreferrer\">How a &ldquo;You do You&rdquo; Culture Has Made Us Vulnerable to the Coronavirus<\/a> <\/p>\n<p>Michael Kruger: &ldquo;The virus will be curbed when people embody a spirit of self-sacrifice.&nbsp; A posture of self-denial. We must limit our travel, limit our social contact, even limit our &ldquo;fun&rdquo; so that the virus won&rsquo;t spread. And that requires a worldview that gives us a reason to deny ourselves. A reason to think of others.&nbsp; In other words, we need a worldview that is about more than us.&rdquo; (See also <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=76ukWiv0qfs&amp;feature=share\" data-wpel-link=\"external\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"external noopener noreferrer\">A Christian&rsquo;s Warning and Encouragement from Spain #COVID19<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/yourmomhasablog.com\/2020\/03\/18\/corona-as-a-reminder-of-my-king\/\" data-wpel-link=\"external\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"external noopener noreferrer\">Corona as a Reminder of My King<\/a>, and <a href=\"https:\/\/barbaraleeharper.com\/2020\/03\/19\/things-i-am-thankful-for-during-the-coronavirus-pandemic\/\" data-wpel-link=\"external\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"external noopener noreferrer\">Things I Am Thankful for During the Coronavirus Pandemic<\/a>.)<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/flowingdata.com\/2020\/03\/20\/coronavirus-explained-and-what-you-should-do\/\" data-wpel-link=\"external\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"external noopener noreferrer\">Coronavirus Explained and What You Should Do (Video)<\/a> <\/p>\n<p>This video explains, quite simply, how the coronavirus works and why it&rsquo;s so dangerous. (See also <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2020\/03\/21\/business\/coronavirus-economy-markets\/index.html\" data-wpel-link=\"external\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"external noopener noreferrer\">30 Days That Brought the World to the Brink of a Depression<\/a>.)<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=Z-9TxD1BF60&amp;feature=share\" data-wpel-link=\"external\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"external noopener noreferrer\">John MacArthur: The Gospel, the Church, and This Present Crisis<\/a> <\/p>\n<p>You may enjoy<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today\u2019s Kindle deals include books new and old\u2014even a new release from Kristen Wetherell that seems to be a good fit for the times. (Yesterday on the blog: How To Make the Most of Lockdown (Tips from Christians in Italy)) How a \u201cYou do You\u201d Culture Has Made Us Vulnerable to the Coronavirus Michael Kruger: \u201cThe virus will be curbed when people embody a spirit of self-sacrifice.\u00a0 A posture of self-denial. We must limit our travel, limit our social contact, \u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19,"featured_media":14519,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[31],"tags":[306],"class_list":["post-14511","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tim-challies","tag-a-la-carte","et-has-post-format-content","et_post_format-et-post-format-standard"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/biblicalcounselor.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/A20La20Carte20-20concepts202-WEEKEND-1.jpg?fit=910%2C320&ssl=1","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14511","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/19"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14511"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14511\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14521,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14511\/revisions\/14521"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/14519"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14511"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14511"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14511"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}