{"id":25371,"date":"2020-10-12T05:00:01","date_gmt":"2020-10-12T10:00:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/?p=25371"},"modified":"2020-10-12T05:05:48","modified_gmt":"2020-10-12T10:05:48","slug":"a-la-carte-october-12","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/?p=25371","title":{"rendered":"A La Carte (October 12)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I read this quote a few weeks ago and have often pondered it since then: &#8220;It is very likely that more Americans can name the four Hogwarts houses than can name the Gospels.&#8221; While there&#8217;s no proof of it, I expect it&#8217;s probably true. And it highlights the Christian&#8217;s evangelistic challenge, doesn&#8217;t it?<\/p>\n<p>Westminster Books has a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wtsbooks.com\/blogs\/2020-enews\/before-you-vote?utm_source=challies&amp;utm_medium=challies\" data-wpel-link=\"external\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"external noopener noreferrer\">deal<\/a> on a book that was clearly written to be read just about now\u2026<\/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 book on how to think, rather an important topic (I think).<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/frenchpress.thedispatch.com\/p\/a-dc-church-shows-how-to-fight-for\" data-wpel-link=\"external\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"external noopener noreferrer\">A D.C. Church Shows How to Fight for Religious Freedom<\/a> <\/p>\n<p>I know some people will accuse me of being anti-MacArthur for sharing this one, but if we can just set that idea aside (I love and admire MacArthur and am sure he has done what he deemed good and necessary in his context) I think there are some good takeaways from David French&#8217;s article about Capitol Hill Baptist Church and their recent victory in the courts.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.desiringgod.org\/articles\/worse-than-we-think\" data-wpel-link=\"external\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"external noopener noreferrer\">Worse Than We Think<\/a> <\/p>\n<p>What&#8217;s Total Depravity all about? This article will get you oriented.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/anothersmallstone.com\/2020\/10\/09\/the-command-to-like-your-neighbor\/\" data-wpel-link=\"external\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"external noopener noreferrer\">The Command To Like Your Neighbor<\/a> <\/p>\n<p>This one is probably worth thinking about. Is it possible that some of<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I read this quote a few weeks ago and have often pondered it since then: \u201cIt is very likely that more Americans can name the four Hogwarts houses than can name the Gospels.\u201d While there\u2019s no proof of it, I expect it\u2019s probably true. And it highlights the Christian\u2019s evangelistic challenge, doesn\u2019t it? Westminster Books has a deal on a book that was clearly written to be read just about now\u2026 Today\u2019s Kindle deals include a book on how to \u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19,"featured_media":25378,"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-25371","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-MON20b_4-1.jpg?fit=910%2C320&ssl=1","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25371","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=25371"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25371\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25380,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25371\/revisions\/25380"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/25378"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25371"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25371"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25371"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}