{"id":23671,"date":"2020-09-04T05:19:58","date_gmt":"2020-09-04T10:19:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/?p=23671"},"modified":"2020-09-04T05:35:59","modified_gmt":"2020-09-04T10:35:59","slug":"a-la-carte-september-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/?p=23671","title":{"rendered":"A La Carte (September 4)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>It has been a strong week for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.challies.com\/kindle-deals-for-christians\" data-wpel-link=\"internal\">Kindle deals<\/a>, and the tend continues today with another batch of good books.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thegospelcoalition.org\/article\/honest-with-elders\/\" data-wpel-link=\"external\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"external noopener noreferrer\">A Case for Being Honest with Your Elders<\/a> <\/p>\n<p>Wendy Alsup writes about the important of being honest and vulnerable with your elders. \u201cI snuck into the bright sanctuary of the church and snagged a seat on the back row, taking in the people, the pastor, and the liturgy of the service.\u00a0 I was home for Christmas visiting my parents in South Carolina, knowing that, due to the divorce bearing down on my family, I would be moving there from Seattle for good in a few months. I was going to be landing in South Carolina broken and hurting. Despite the safety net my family provided, I knew I needed a strong church community.\u201d<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/thinktheology.co.uk\/blog\/article\/moynihans_law#When:07:00:00Z\" data-wpel-link=\"external\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"external noopener noreferrer\">Moynihan\u2019s Law<\/a> <\/p>\n<p>Andrew Wilson tells how Moynihan\u2019s Law may apply to Christians. \u201c\u2018The amount of violations of human rights in a country,\u2019 argued Democratic Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan, \u2018is always an <em>inverse<\/em> function of the amount of complaints about human rights violations heard from there. The greater the number of complaints being aired, the better protected are human rights in that country.\u2019 In other words:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It has been a strong week for Kindle deals, and the tend continues today with another batch of good books. 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