{"id":24707,"date":"2020-09-28T04:53:00","date_gmt":"2020-09-28T09:53:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/?p=24707"},"modified":"2020-09-28T05:18:17","modified_gmt":"2020-09-28T10:18:17","slug":"a-la-carte-september-28","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/?p=24707","title":{"rendered":"A La Carte (September 28)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Today is an amazing day for Kindle book collectors as there\u2019s a large collection of excellent resources on theology and Christian living. You can find them on the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.challies.com\/kindle-deals-for-christians\" data-wpel-link=\"internal\">Kindle deals<\/a> page.<\/p>\n<p>Logos users will want to check out this <a href=\"https:\/\/partner.logosbible.com\/click.track?CID=432198&amp;AFID=464975&amp;nonencodedurl=https:\/\/www.logos.com\/best-commentaries-sale\" data-wpel-link=\"external\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"external noopener noreferrer\">long list<\/a> of commentaries on sale.<\/p>\n<p><em>(Yesterday on the blog: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.challies.com\/articles\/a-side-of-perfect-beauty-in-every-providence\/\" rel=\"bookmark\" data-wpel-link=\"internal\">A Side Of Perfect Beauty in Every Providence<\/a>)<\/em><\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thegospelcoalition.org\/article\/king-david-final-words-godly-authority-2-samuel-23\/\" data-wpel-link=\"external\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"external noopener noreferrer\">The Blessing of (Good) Authority<\/a> <\/p>\n<p>Jonathan Leeman makes an insightful points here: \u201cReally, people don\u2019t hate authority, because we all love the freedom to decide things and to create. We just don\u2019t like other people\u2019s authority because we like deciding and creating things for ourselves.\u201d<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/entrustedtothedirt.com\/2020\/09\/27\/if-you-dont-evangelize-at-home-you-wont-overseas\/\" data-wpel-link=\"external\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"external noopener noreferrer\">If You Don\u2019t Evangelize at Home, You Won\u2019t Overseas?<\/a> <\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn this post I hope to offer a qualification to a good general principle. I have often heard it said that if you don\u2019t share the gospel in your home culture, you won\u2019t share it in a foreign culture either.\u00a0<em>There is no sanctification by aviation<\/em>, it is said. I largely agree with this sentiment. Whether you live on mission at home is a very good indication of whether you will live on mission overseas or not.\u201d But maybe it\u2019s not quite so simple\u2026<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.calnewport.com\/blog\/2020\/09\/22\/do-smartphones-make-us-dumber\/\" data-wpel-link=\"external\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"external noopener noreferrer\">Do Smartphones Make Us<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today is an amazing day for Kindle book collectors as there\u2019s a large collection of excellent resources on theology and Christian living. You can find them on the Kindle deals page. Logos users will want to check out this long list of commentaries on sale. (Yesterday on the blog: A Side Of Perfect Beauty in Every Providence) The Blessing of (Good) Authority Jonathan Leeman makes an insightful points here: \u201cReally, people don\u2019t hate authority, because we all love the freedom \u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19,"featured_media":24715,"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-24707","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-MON_1-4-1.jpg?fit=910%2C320&ssl=1","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24707","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=24707"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24707\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24717,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24707\/revisions\/24717"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/24715"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24707"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24707"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24707"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}