{"id":18826,"date":"2020-06-01T05:00:50","date_gmt":"2020-06-01T10:00:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/?p=18826"},"modified":"2020-06-01T06:15:23","modified_gmt":"2020-06-01T11:15:23","slug":"a-la-carte-june-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/?p=18826","title":{"rendered":"A La Carte (June 1)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

There’s a  handful of quality Kindle deals<\/a> for you today.<\/p>\n

(Yesterday on the blog: Better Faithful Than Free<\/a>)<\/em><\/p>\n

Your Weird, Messy Church is God’s “Plan A”<\/a> <\/p>\n

Jared Wilson: “You don’t have to be cool, big, strong, technologically savvy, politically fashionable, or culturally relevant. You just have to repent of your sin and commit your weird, broken church to its King. It’s the sinners He wants. It’s the losers He’s choosing. Your weird, messy church—in a pandemic or out of it—is God’s Plan A for your world. And there is no Plan B.”<\/p>\n

Take Courage, Graduate<\/a> <\/p>\n

Abigail Remhert has one for the young graduates: “Graduate, the reason you feel overwhelmed, though you might not know it, is not because now is when you must decide the rest<\/em> of your life — it’s simply the first time you have to decide what to do with the next<\/em> part of your life.”<\/p>\n

The Mysterious Case of the Missing Cool Ranch Doritos<\/a> <\/p>\n

Cool Ranch Doritos went missing in Canada for almost two months. It’s related to the pandemic, of course, and makes an interesting case study for how companies have had to adapt (and how spoiled for choice we are under normal circumstances)<\/p>\n

Seeing Foster<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

There\u2019s a\u00a0 handful of quality Kindle deals for you today. (Yesterday on the blog: Better Faithful Than Free) Your Weird, Messy Church is God\u2019s \u201cPlan A\u201d Jared Wilson: \u201cYou don\u2019t have to be cool, big, strong, technologically savvy, politically fashionable, or culturally relevant. You just have to repent of your sin and commit your weird, broken church to its King. It\u2019s the sinners He wants. It\u2019s the losers He\u2019s choosing. Your weird, messy church\u2014in a pandemic or out of it\u2014is \u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19,"featured_media":18835,"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-18826","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\/06\/A20La20Carte20-20concepts202-MON20b_4-1.jpg?fit=910%2C320&ssl=1","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18826","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=18826"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18826\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18837,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18826\/revisions\/18837"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/18835"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18826"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18826"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18826"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}