{"id":20936,"date":"2020-07-11T05:00:52","date_gmt":"2020-07-11T10:00:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/?p=20936"},"modified":"2020-07-11T05:53:44","modified_gmt":"2020-07-11T10:53:44","slug":"weekend-a-la-carte-july-11","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/?p=20936","title":{"rendered":"Weekend A La Carte (July 11)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>For the past week I&rsquo;ve been on vacation and all the posts were queued up in advance so I could rest (except for yesterday&rsquo;s&mdash;I just couldn&rsquo;t help myself).<\/p>\n<p>My gratitude goes to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wtsbooks.com\/pages\/the-afterword?tab=afterword-guests\" data-wpel-link=\"external\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"external noopener noreferrer\">Westminster Books<\/a> for sponsoring the blog this week. Sponsors keep the site going!<\/p>\n<p><em>(Yesterday on the blog: <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.challies.com\/articles\/are-churches-a-major-source-of-coronavirus-cases\/\" rel=\"bookmark\" data-wpel-link=\"internal\">Are Churches &ldquo;A Major Source of Coronavirus Cases?&rdquo;<\/a><em>&nbsp;Hey, did you notice the Times changed the headline to the far more accurate &ldquo;Churches Were Eager to Reopen. Now They Are Confronting Coronavirus Cases&rdquo;?)<br \/> <\/em><\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.crossway.org\/articles\/5-myths-about-hell\/\" data-wpel-link=\"external\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"external noopener noreferrer\">5 Myths about Hell<\/a> <\/p>\n<p>Mark Jones addresses a number of myths about hell.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thegospelcoalition.org\/blogs\/trevin-wax\/the-end-times-generation-gap\/\" data-wpel-link=\"external\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"external noopener noreferrer\">The &ldquo;End Times&rdquo; Generation Gap<\/a> <\/p>\n<p>This has been exactly my experience&mdash;that younger folk are less interested in the End Times than older folk. &ldquo;LifeWay Research, in partnership with Chosen People Ministries, has conducted a survey not of Southern Baptists specifically, but of Protestant pastors in general. What they&rsquo;ve discovered is a generation gap not only regarding the specifics of &lsquo;end times&rsquo; beliefs but also the level of attention they devote to the topic.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.desiringgod.org\/articles\/hoarding-hope\" data-wpel-link=\"external\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"external noopener noreferrer\">Hoarding Hope<\/a> <\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Hoarding is &lsquo;collecting and often hiding away a supply of something of value.&rsquo; In times of crisis, when resources dwindle, people seem especially prone to hoarding. Our self-interest<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For the past week I\u2019ve been on vacation and all the posts were queued up in advance so I could rest (except for yesterday\u2019s\u2014I just couldn\u2019t help myself). My gratitude goes to Westminster Books for sponsoring the blog this week. Sponsors keep the site going! (Yesterday on the blog: Are Churches \u201cA Major Source of Coronavirus Cases?\u201d\u00a0Hey, did you notice the Times changed the headline to the far more accurate \u201cChurches Were Eager to Reopen. Now They Are Confronting Coronavirus \u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19,"featured_media":20944,"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-20936","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-WEEKEND-1.jpg?fit=910%2C320&ssl=1","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20936","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=20936"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20936\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20946,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20936\/revisions\/20946"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/20944"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20936"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20936"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20936"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}