{"id":24546,"date":"2020-09-24T05:13:18","date_gmt":"2020-09-24T10:13:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/?p=24546"},"modified":"2020-09-24T06:19:00","modified_gmt":"2020-09-24T11:19:00","slug":"a-la-carte-september-24","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/?p=24546","title":{"rendered":"A La Carte (September 24)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I\u2019ve been hearing good things about the new <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wtsbooks.com\/blogs\/2020-enews\/bavinck-a-critical-biography?utm_source=challies&amp;utm_medium=challies\" data-wpel-link=\"external\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"external noopener noreferrer\">Bavinck biography<\/a> by James Eglinton. It\u2019s on sale this week at Westminster Books if you want to check it out.<\/p>\n<p>Today\u2019s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.challies.com\/kindle-deals-for-christians\" data-wpel-link=\"internal\">Kindle deals<\/a> include some pretty good books!<\/p>\n<p><em>(Yesterday on the blog: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.challies.com\/book-reviews\/live-not-by-lies\/\" rel=\"bookmark\" data-wpel-link=\"internal\">Is Soft Totalitarianism Coming to America?<\/a>)<\/em><\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.feedingonchrist.com\/blog\/post\/the-shoulders-of-giants-the-counsel-of-the-wise\" data-wpel-link=\"external\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"external noopener noreferrer\">The Shoulders of Giants, the Counsel of the Wise<\/a> <\/p>\n<p>Nick Batzig: \u201cWhen I was a young man, my father used to tell me, \u2018Never be quick to praise the living, because the living are subject to change.\u2019 In just over a decade and a half in ministry I have seen more shooting stars come and go than I can remember. While garnering large crowds and even larger accolades, such men boasted of their ministries, accomplishments, and supposed movements. They set themselves up as leaders of a generation of zealous yet directionless young adults.\u201d<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.overflowchat.com\/how-to-stop-hating-yourself\/\" data-wpel-link=\"external\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"external noopener noreferrer\">How to Stop Hating Yourself<\/a> <\/p>\n<p>Here are some good things to ponder for people who are consumed with self-hatred.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/thinktheology.co.uk\/blog\/article\/prayingthrough_gritted_teeth\" data-wpel-link=\"external\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"external noopener noreferrer\">Praying\u2026Through Gritted Teeth<\/a> <\/p>\n<p>Matthew Hosier wrestles with sincerely praying for a leader he struggles to respect. \u201cI didn\u2019t think much of the PMs speech. And yet the word of God instructs me to pray for those in authority. More than<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I\u2019ve been hearing good things about the new Bavinck biography by James Eglinton. It\u2019s on sale this week at Westminster Books if you want to check it out. Today\u2019s Kindle deals include some pretty good books! (Yesterday on the blog: Is Soft Totalitarianism Coming to America?) The Shoulders of Giants, the Counsel of the Wise Nick Batzig: \u201cWhen I was a young man, my father used to tell me, \u2018Never be quick to praise the living, because the living are \u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19,"featured_media":24554,"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-24546","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\/09\/A20La20Carte20-20concepts202-THURS20b_0-3-1.jpg?fit=910%2C320&ssl=1","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24546","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=24546"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24546\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24556,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24546\/revisions\/24556"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/24554"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24546"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24546"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24546"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}