{"id":25336,"date":"2020-10-10T05:13:59","date_gmt":"2020-10-10T10:13:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/?p=25336"},"modified":"2020-10-10T05:20:23","modified_gmt":"2020-10-10T10:20:23","slug":"weekend-a-la-carte-october-10","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/?p=25336","title":{"rendered":"Weekend A La Carte (October 10)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>If you&#8217;re looking for some good new music, be sure to check out Sandra McCracken&#8217;s new album <em>Patient Kingdom<\/em> and Citizens&#8217; new album <em>The Joy of Being<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Today&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.challies.com\/kindle-deals-for-christians\" data-wpel-link=\"internal\">Kindle deals<\/a> include a few classics.<\/p>\n<p><em>(Yesterday on the blog: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.challies.com\/book-reviews\/why-social-justice-is-not-biblical-justice\/\" rel=\"bookmark\" data-wpel-link=\"internal\">Why Social Justice Is Not Biblical Justice<\/a>)<\/em><\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/factsandtrends.net\/2020\/10\/09\/your-church-is-not-a-stepping-stone\/\" data-wpel-link=\"external\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"external noopener noreferrer\">Your Church Is Not a Stepping Stone<\/a> <\/p>\n<p>I think this is very important. &#8220;Some pastors view churches as stepping stones to move up and up until they finally &#8216;arrive.&#8217; I know one pastor who won\u2019t even consider a call to another church unless it doubles his current church in every metric, from membership to budget.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/throwingtheword.com\/2020\/10\/07\/if-you-dont-see-beauty-do-you-really-know-god-as-well-as-you-thought\/\" data-wpel-link=\"external\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"external noopener noreferrer\">If You Don\u2019t See Beauty, Do You Really Know God As Well As You Thought?<\/a> <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Why did God make so much color, so many beautiful patterns? So much of the creation account seems like life for the sake of God\u2019s joy overflowing in creativity. I heard someone this week actually say, a duck is like God saying, &#8216;I\u2019m going to make a water chicken with a kazoo for a mouth.&#8217; That doesn\u2019t seem too far from the mark when you think about it. The beauty and creativity of this world came straight from the heart of God.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you\u2019re looking for some good new music, be sure to check out Sandra McCracken\u2019s new album Patient Kingdom and Citizens\u2019 new album The Joy of Being. Today\u2019s Kindle deals include a few classics. (Yesterday on the blog: Why Social Justice Is Not Biblical Justice) Your Church Is Not a Stepping Stone I think this is very important. \u201cSome pastors view churches as stepping stones to move up and up until they finally \u2018arrive.\u2019 I know one pastor who won\u2019t \u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19,"featured_media":25343,"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-25336","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-WEEKEND_2-1.jpg?fit=910%2C320&ssl=1","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25336","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=25336"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25336\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25345,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25336\/revisions\/25345"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/25343"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25336"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25336"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25336"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}