{"id":22906,"date":"2020-08-19T04:44:09","date_gmt":"2020-08-19T09:44:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/?p=22906"},"modified":"2020-08-19T04:56:10","modified_gmt":"2020-08-19T09:56:10","slug":"a-la-carte-august-19","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/?p=22906","title":{"rendered":"A La Carte (August 19)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>If you\u2019ve got an interest in hymns or the wider subject of worship, you may be interested in this week\u2019s deal(s) from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wtsbooks.com\/blogs\/2020-enews\/40-favorite-hymns-on-the-christian-life?utm_source=challies&amp;utm_medium=challies\" data-wpel-link=\"external\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"external noopener noreferrer\">Westminster Books<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Today\u2019s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.challies.com\/kindle-deals-for-christians\" data-wpel-link=\"internal\">Kindle deals<\/a> include Joel Beeke\u2019s helpful little book on the cure for backsliding.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/entrustedtothedirt.com\/2020\/08\/17\/the-evil-eye-surprisingly-ancient-and-widespread\/\" data-wpel-link=\"external\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"external noopener noreferrer\">The Evil Eye<\/a> <\/p>\n<p>Interesting: \u201cMany cultures\u2019 folk religions believe in the evil eye. In our area of Central Asia, some, particularly the elderly and rural, believe that certain persons secretly have the power to curse others by looking at them and envying them. This is said to be the evil eye, or the\u00a0<em>dirty eye<\/em> as our local language puts it. In order to protect one\u2019s self from this danger, certain eye amulets can be hung on persons, gifts, or in rooms.\u201d<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/ftc.co\/resource-library\/blog-entries\/on-sermon-preparation\/\" data-wpel-link=\"external\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"external noopener noreferrer\">On Sermon Preparation<\/a> <\/p>\n<p>Here is a list of quick tips from H.B. Charles Jr. in which he lays out his method for preparing a sermon. \u201cBut how do you get from text to sermon? What steps should a preacher take to preacher a sound, clear, and helpful sermon?\u00a0The following steps represent my regular process of sermon preparation. It is not the only way to do it. But you may find it beneficial to compare another preacher\u2019s process of sermon<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you\u2019ve got an interest in hymns or the wider subject of worship, you may be interested in this week\u2019s deal(s) from Westminster Books. Today\u2019s Kindle deals include Joel Beeke\u2019s helpful little book on the cure for backsliding. The Evil Eye Interesting: \u201cMany cultures\u2019 folk religions believe in the evil eye. In our area of Central Asia, some, particularly the elderly and rural, believe that certain persons secretly have the power to curse others by looking at them and envying \u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19,"featured_media":22914,"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-22906","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\/08\/A20La20Carte20-20concepts202-WED_5-2-1.jpg?fit=910%2C320&ssl=1","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22906","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=22906"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22906\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22916,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22906\/revisions\/22916"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/22914"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22906"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22906"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22906"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}