{"id":20469,"date":"2020-07-02T05:10:12","date_gmt":"2020-07-02T10:10:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/?p=20469"},"modified":"2020-07-02T05:16:11","modified_gmt":"2020-07-02T10:16:11","slug":"a-la-carte-july-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/?p=20469","title":{"rendered":"A La Carte (July 2)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>There are once again some good picks in the daily roundup of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.challies.com\/kindle-deals-for-christians\" data-wpel-link=\"internal\">Kindle deals<\/a>. Also be sure to check yesterday&rsquo;s list if you missed it.<\/p>\n<p><em>(Yesterday on the blog: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.challies.com\/book-reviews\/hope-when-life-unravels\/\" rel=\"bookmark\" data-wpel-link=\"internal\">Hope When Life Unravels<\/a>)<\/em><\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thegospelcoalition.org\/blogs\/kevin-deyoung\/with-liberty-and-justice-for-all\/\" data-wpel-link=\"external\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"external noopener noreferrer\">With Liberty and Justice for All<\/a> <\/p>\n<p>Kevin DeYoung has written a reflection on national history and identity. Here&rsquo;s a key quote: &ldquo;We do not have to believe we are as bad as we&rsquo;ve ever been to acknowledge that we aren&rsquo;t what we can be.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"http:\/\/vaticanfiles.org\/en\/2020\/07\/177\/\" data-wpel-link=\"external\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"external noopener noreferrer\">Inter-Faith Prayers for the Pandemic to Cease?<\/a> <\/p>\n<p>Well, when you put it like this it becomes pretty obvious, doesn&rsquo;t it? &ldquo;Can you imagine an Apostle Paul who, at the Areopagus in Athens (Acts 17), invites his listeners (followers of various philosophical schools and ancient cults) to unite in prayer, each to his own god\/ideal as a sign of fraternity? Can you imagine an Apostle Peter who, in writing to Christians at the four corners of the Roman Empire (1 Peter 1:1), recommends that they raise petitions together with the faithful of the Eastern, Greek and Roman religions, to invoke the end of a pandemic?&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/thinkingpastorally.com\/2020\/06\/29\/pastors-covid-and-criticism\/\" data-wpel-link=\"external\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"external noopener noreferrer\">Pastors, Covid, and Criticism<\/a> <\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;In this post I want to address Pastors, Covid, and criticism. Criticism is<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There are once again some good picks in the daily roundup of Kindle deals. Also be sure to check yesterday\u2019s list if you missed it. (Yesterday on the blog: Hope When Life Unravels) With Liberty and Justice for All Kevin DeYoung has written a reflection on national history and identity. Here\u2019s a key quote: \u201cWe do not have to believe we are as bad as we\u2019ve ever been to acknowledge that we aren\u2019t what we can be.\u201d Inter-Faith Prayers for \u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19,"featured_media":20477,"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-20469","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\/07\/A20La20Carte20-20concepts202-THURS20b_0-1.jpg?fit=910%2C320&ssl=1","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20469","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=20469"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20469\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20479,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20469\/revisions\/20479"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/20477"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20469"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20469"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20469"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}