{"id":17517,"date":"2020-05-09T05:10:41","date_gmt":"2020-05-09T10:10:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/?p=17517"},"modified":"2020-05-09T05:23:21","modified_gmt":"2020-05-09T10:23:21","slug":"weekend-a-la-carte-may-9","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/?p=17517","title":{"rendered":"Weekend A La Carte (May 9)"},"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 quite a look of solid books; there are some classics (like there are every Saturday) as well as a few newer works. If you&rsquo;ve never read Packer&rsquo;s <em>Evangelism and the Sovereignty of God<\/em>, now&rsquo;s the time!<\/p>\n<p><em>(Yesterday on the blog: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.challies.com\/book-reviews\/the-best-daily-bible-reading-plan-for-kids\/\" rel=\"bookmark\" data-wpel-link=\"internal\">The Best Daily Bible Reading Plan for Kids<\/a>)<\/em><\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/world.wng.org\/2020\/05\/we_can_t_go_back_so_let_s_go_forward\" data-wpel-link=\"external\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"external noopener noreferrer\">We Can&rsquo;t Go Back, So Let&rsquo;s Go Forward<\/a> <\/p>\n<p>Janie B. Cheaney: &ldquo;In every case of collapse, we can&rsquo;t go back. And ultimately that&rsquo;s to the good, because the God of history is leading us forward. Trying to get back to the Garden&mdash;an ideal state of harmony and plenty&mdash;tends to breed just the opposite.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/politics\/archive\/2020\/05\/is-flying-safe-coronavirus\/611335\/\" data-wpel-link=\"external\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"external noopener noreferrer\">I Just Flew. It Was Worse Than I Thought It Would Be.<\/a> <\/p>\n<p>On the one hand this article is just about an experience of flying, but on the other it has a key observation which I&rsquo;ve italicized in the quote: &ldquo;The things we miss most about our pre-pandemic lives&mdash;dine-in restaurants and recreational travel, karaoke nights and baseball games&mdash;require more than government permission to be enjoyed. These activities are predicated not only on close human contact but mutual affection and good-natured patience, on our ability to put up with one another. Governors can lift<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today\u2019s Kindle deals include quite a look of solid books; there are some classics (like there are every Saturday) as well as a few newer works. If you\u2019ve never read Packer\u2019s Evangelism and the Sovereignty of God, now\u2019s the time! (Yesterday on the blog: The Best Daily Bible Reading Plan for Kids) We Can\u2019t Go Back, So Let\u2019s Go Forward Janie B. Cheaney: \u201cIn every case of collapse, we can\u2019t go back. And ultimately that\u2019s to the good, because the \u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19,"featured_media":17525,"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-17517","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\/05\/A20La20Carte20-20concepts202-WEEKEND_0-1.jpg?fit=910%2C320&ssl=1","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17517","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=17517"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17517\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17527,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17517\/revisions\/17527"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/17525"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17517"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17517"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17517"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}