{"id":24961,"date":"2020-10-01T04:58:38","date_gmt":"2020-10-01T09:58:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/?p=24961"},"modified":"2020-10-01T05:51:12","modified_gmt":"2020-10-01T10:51:12","slug":"a-la-carte-october-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/?p=24961","title":{"rendered":"A La Carte (October 1)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Because it\u2019s a new month there are lots of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.challies.com\/kindle-deals-for-christians\" data-wpel-link=\"internal\">Kindle deals<\/a> to look at, including Greg Koukl\u2019s <em>Tactics<\/em> and Kelly Needham\u2019s <em>Friendish<\/em>. You may also want to sort through the monthly general market deals (where you\u2019ll find, for example, McCullough\u2019s biography of Theodore Roosevelt.)<\/p>\n<p><em>(Yesterday on the blog: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.challies.com\/articles\/a-casket-and-a-bible\/\" rel=\"bookmark\" data-wpel-link=\"internal\">A Casket and a Bible<\/a>)<\/em><\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.craigthompson.org\/2020\/09\/28\/stop-eulogizing-the-church\/\" data-wpel-link=\"external\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"external noopener noreferrer\">Stop Eulogizing The Local Church<\/a> <\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe criticize online news sites for their click bait approach to news, but a few websites dedicated to church ministry and pastors need to be reprimanded as well. In an effort to promote clicks during COVID, there have been a number of eulogies written for the local church. We have been told that it will never be the same, that 20-30 percent of pre-COVID attenders will not return, and that your pastor is getting ready to quit.\u201d<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.epm.org\/blog\/2020\/Sep\/30\/matter-spend-free-time\" data-wpel-link=\"external\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"external noopener noreferrer\">Does It Matter How We Spend Our Free Time?<\/a> <\/p>\n<p>Randy Alcorn answers this one. \u201cWe have to look at our lives as a window of opportunity, because none of us has unlimited time. Everyone, no matter who they are, has 168 hours a week, and we\u2019re supposed to spend about a third of it sleeping, and then another large amount of that likely<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Because it\u2019s a new month there are lots of Kindle deals to look at, including Greg Koukl\u2019s Tactics and Kelly Needham\u2019s Friendish. You may also want to sort through the monthly general market deals (where you\u2019ll find, for example, McCullough\u2019s biography of Theodore Roosevelt.) (Yesterday on the blog: A Casket and a Bible) Stop Eulogizing The Local Church \u201cWe criticize online news sites for their click bait approach to news, but a few websites dedicated to church ministry and pastors \u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19,"featured_media":24969,"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-24961","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\/10\/A20La20Carte20-20concepts202-THURS20b_0-1.jpg?fit=910%2C320&ssl=1","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24961","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=24961"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24961\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24971,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24961\/revisions\/24971"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/24969"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24961"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24961"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24961"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}