{"id":24319,"date":"2020-09-19T05:11:48","date_gmt":"2020-09-19T10:11:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/?p=24319"},"modified":"2020-09-19T05:18:19","modified_gmt":"2020-09-19T10:18:19","slug":"weekend-a-la-carte-september-19","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/?p=24319","title":{"rendered":"Weekend A La Carte (September 19)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I want to commend to you <a href=\"https:\/\/www.stitcher.com\/podcast\/ministry-network-podcast\/e\/77176013\" data-wpel-link=\"external\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"external noopener noreferrer\">this episode<\/a> of the Ministry Network Podcast (whether or not you\u2019re in ministry). It\u2019s about prayer and I found it encouraging, challenging, and endearingly eclectic.<\/p>\n<p>There are a few <a href=\"http:\/\/www.challies.com\/kindle-deals-for-christians\" data-wpel-link=\"internal\">Kindle deals<\/a> for your enjoyment today.<\/p>\n<p><em>(Yesterday on the blog: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.challies.com\/book-reviews\/new-religions-for-a-godless-world\/\" rel=\"bookmark\" data-wpel-link=\"internal\">New Religions for a Godless World<\/a>)<\/em><\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reformation21.org\/blog\/threeish-views-of-contraception\" data-wpel-link=\"external\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"external noopener noreferrer\">Three(ish) Views of Contraception<\/a> <\/p>\n<p>This article at Reformation21 explains the most common Christian perspectives on contraception and arrives at an important principle.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/letterandliturgy.wordpress.com\/2020\/09\/18\/cuties-and-cognitive-dissonance\/\" data-wpel-link=\"external\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"external noopener noreferrer\">Cuties and Cognitive Dissonance<\/a> <\/p>\n<p>I think Samuel James is on to something here. \u201cEverywhere I look I see evidence of people whose deepest moral intuitions are negative. They don\u2019t know what they believe, but they definitely know who their enemy is. They don\u2019t have a vision of human flourishing, but they can finger the people who will enslave us all. This is deeper and worse than polarization.\u201d<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.keithmathison.org\/post\/good-and-evil-in-the-lord-of-the-rings\" data-wpel-link=\"external\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"external noopener noreferrer\">Good and Evil in the Lord of the Rings<\/a> <\/p>\n<p>Keith Mathison has been writing some really interesting articles about <em>The Lord of the Rings<\/em>. In this one he looks at its concepts of good and evil.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/reformedperspective.ca\/c-s-lewiss-apologetics-a-reformed-assessment\/\" data-wpel-link=\"external\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"external noopener noreferrer\">C.s. Lewis\u2019s Apologetics: A Reformed Assessment<\/a> <\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, writing for Reformed Perspective, Wes Bredenhof offers, well, a reformed perspective on the apologetics of<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I want to commend to you this episode of the Ministry Network Podcast (whether or not you\u2019re in ministry). It\u2019s about prayer and I found it encouraging, challenging, and endearingly eclectic. There are a few Kindle deals for your enjoyment today. (Yesterday on the blog: New Religions for a Godless World) Three(ish) Views of Contraception This article at Reformation21 explains the most common Christian perspectives on contraception and arrives at an important principle. 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