{"id":18638,"date":"2020-05-29T04:40:33","date_gmt":"2020-05-29T09:40:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/?p=18638"},"modified":"2020-05-29T17:21:10","modified_gmt":"2020-05-29T22:21:10","slug":"a-la-carte-may-29-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/?p=18638","title":{"rendered":"A La Carte (May 29)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>There are a few fairly minor <a href=\"http:\/\/challies.com\/kindle-deals-for-christians\" data-wpel-link=\"internal\">Kindle deals<\/a> to look at today.<\/p>\n<p>Westminster books has a couple of noteworthy deals: <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wtsbooks.com\/blogs\/2020-enews\/together-through-the-storms?utm_source=challies&amp;utm_medium=challies\" data-wpel-link=\"external\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"external noopener noreferrer\">Together Through the Storms<\/a><\/em>, a book about marriage; and a new <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wtsbooks.com\/collections\/search-result?type=product&amp;q=track%3A+a+Student%27s+guide&amp;utm_source=challies&amp;utm_medium=challies\" data-wpel-link=\"external\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"external noopener noreferrer\">series of booklets<\/a> for students.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/biblicalcounseling.com\/defeating-despair\/\" data-wpel-link=\"external\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"external noopener noreferrer\">Defeating Despair<\/a> <\/p>\n<p>Tim Pasma writes about the creeping sense of despair so many are experiencing. &ldquo;You feel a sense of hopelessness overtaking you and, like a tire with a slow leak, you get a little lower every day. Whatever you might call it, you sense that you&rsquo;re losing hope; the world is grey, you have a hard time enjoying life, you just can&rsquo;t seem to get motivated. What can you do when you start despairing, when hope seems so elusive?&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=aBppb2quqkE&amp;feature=emb_title\" data-wpel-link=\"external\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"external noopener noreferrer\">The International Date Line, Explained (Video)<\/a> <\/p>\n<p>This is an extremely helpful explanation of the international date line and why it zigzags all over the Pacific.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thegospelcoalition.org\/blogs\/jared-c-wilson\/sometimes-people-just-dont-believe\/\" data-wpel-link=\"external\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"external noopener noreferrer\">Sometimes People Just Don&rsquo;t Believe<\/a> <\/p>\n<p>Jared Wilson writes about the most recent deconversion. &ldquo;We assign logical explanations to these otherwise inexplicable outcomes because we are pragmatists at heart. We like to think that if you just push the right spiritual buttons, you will get a good spiritual result.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/factsandtrends.net\/2020\/05\/27\/recovering-tolerance-as-a-christian-virtue\/\" data-wpel-link=\"external\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"external noopener noreferrer\">Recovering Tolerance as a Christian Virtue<\/a> <\/p>\n<p>As Christians we<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There are a few fairly minor Kindle deals to look at today. Westminster books has a couple of noteworthy deals: Together Through the Storms, a book about marriage; and a new series of booklets for students. Defeating Despair Tim Pasma writes about the creeping sense of despair so many are experiencing. \u201cYou feel a sense of hopelessness overtaking you and, like a tire with a slow leak, you get a little lower every day. Whatever you might call it, you \u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19,"featured_media":18646,"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-18638","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-FRI_3-4-1.jpg?fit=910%2C320&ssl=1","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18638","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=18638"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18638\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18648,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18638\/revisions\/18648"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/18646"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18638"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18638"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18638"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}