{"id":18667,"date":"2020-05-27T05:00:08","date_gmt":"2020-05-27T10:00:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/?p=18667"},"modified":"2020-05-29T17:21:51","modified_gmt":"2020-05-29T22:21:51","slug":"a-la-carte-may-27-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/?p=18667","title":{"rendered":"A La Carte (May 27)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wtsbooks.com\/blogs\/2020-enews\/the-complete-works-of-william-perkins?utm_source=challies&amp;utm_medium=challies\" data-wpel-link=\"external\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"external noopener noreferrer\">The Complete Works of William Perkins<\/a> is available in print for the first time since the 17th century, and Westminster Books is offering a deal on it.<\/p>\n<p>Today&rsquo;s <a href=\"http:\/\/challies.com\/kindle-deals-for-christians\" data-wpel-link=\"internal\">Kindle deals<\/a> include a large selection of works by Joel Beeke as well as a few other picks.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thegospelcoalition.org\/blogs\/kevin-deyoung\/revelation-coronavirus-and-the-mark-of-the-beast-how-should-christians-read-the-bibles-most-fascinating-book-part-1\/\" data-wpel-link=\"external\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"external noopener noreferrer\">Revelation, Coronavirus, and the Mark of the Beast<\/a> <\/p>\n<p>Kevin DeYoung: &ldquo;Whenever there is a cataclysmic global crisis&mdash;be it war, rumors of war, or a novel coronavirus&mdash;we see a sharp uptick in interest in the book of Revelation. While paying attention to the Bible is always a good thing, Revelation is too often used (by Christians and non-Christians) in a way that does less to edify the body of Christ and more to stoke the fires of wild speculation and unfounded conspiracy theories. It may be helpful, then, to understand what kind of book Revelation is and how to make sense of imagery like the mark of the beast.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/gentlereformation.com\/2020\/05\/26\/great-power-in-its-effects\/\" data-wpel-link=\"external\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"external noopener noreferrer\">Great Power in its Effects<\/a> <\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;&lsquo;<em>I&rsquo;ll pray for you<\/em>&lsquo;. Do those words feel like the &lsquo;consolation prize&rsquo; of the Christian life? The throw-away offerings of help when you don&rsquo;t know what else to say? Or maybe when others don&rsquo;t <em>really<\/em>&nbsp;want to help&mdash;they&rsquo;ll&nbsp;just pray for<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Complete Works of William Perkins is available in print for the first time since the 17th century, and Westminster Books is offering a deal on it. Today\u2019s Kindle deals include a large selection of works by Joel Beeke as well as a few other picks. Revelation, Coronavirus, and the Mark of the Beast Kevin DeYoung: \u201cWhenever there is a cataclysmic global crisis\u2014be it war, rumors of war, or a novel coronavirus\u2014we see a sharp uptick in interest in the \u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19,"featured_media":18675,"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-18667","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-WED_5-4-1.jpg?fit=910%2C320&ssl=1","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18667","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=18667"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18667\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18677,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18667\/revisions\/18677"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/18675"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18667"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18667"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18667"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}