{"id":27912,"date":"2020-12-05T04:44:44","date_gmt":"2020-12-05T10:44:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/?p=27912"},"modified":"2020-12-05T05:21:24","modified_gmt":"2020-12-05T11:21:24","slug":"weekend-a-la-carte-december-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/?p=27912","title":{"rendered":"Weekend A La Carte (December 5)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>My thanks goes to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thegoodbook.com\/\" data-wpel-link=\"external\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"external noopener noreferrer\">The Good Book Company<\/a> for sponsoring the blog this week. It is corporate sponsors and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.patreon.com\/challies\" data-wpel-link=\"external\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"external noopener noreferrer\">personal patrons<\/a> who make this site possible and I&#8217;m thankful for each one.<\/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 collection of newer and older books.<\/p>\n<p><em>(Yesterday on the blog: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.challies.com\/articles\/i-fear-god-and-i-am-afraid-of-god\/\" rel=\"bookmark\" data-wpel-link=\"internal\">I Fear God, and I\u2019m Afraid of God<\/a>)<\/em><\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.craigthompson.org\/2020\/12\/03\/the-gentle-tug-of-spiritual-disciplines\/\" data-wpel-link=\"external\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"external noopener noreferrer\">The Gentle Tug of Spiritual Disciplines<\/a> <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I sometimes wish that my spiritual disciplines pestered me the way that Toby [the dog] does. Those wonderful disciplines like Bible reading, journaling, prayer, and solitude are beneficial, powerful, and essential for the Christian life. However, if I ignore my Bible, it doesn\u2019t lay itself in my lap. If I neglect my prayers, they do not jump up and down to get my attention. If I stash my journal in the bedside table, it doesn\u2019t whine until I let it out.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/unlockingthebible.org\/2020\/12\/strategy-meditating-gods-word\/\" data-wpel-link=\"external\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"external noopener noreferrer\">A Simple Strategy for Meditating on God\u2019s Word<\/a> <\/p>\n<p>Just like the title says, this is a simple strategy for meditating on God&#8217;s Word.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.alifeoverseas.com\/this-pandemic-can-help-us-to-identify-with-the-worlds-poor\/\" data-wpel-link=\"external\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"external noopener noreferrer\">This Pandemic Can Help Us to Identify With the World\u2019s Poor<\/a> <\/p>\n<p>What is new and annoying to us is quite familiar to many people around the world. &#8220;Experts will probably be asking<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My thanks goes to The Good Book Company for sponsoring the blog this week. It is corporate sponsors and personal patrons who make this site possible and I\u2019m thankful for each one. Today\u2019s Kindle deals include a collection of newer and older books. (Yesterday on the blog: I Fear God, and I\u2019m Afraid of God) The Gentle Tug of Spiritual Disciplines \u201cI sometimes wish that my spiritual disciplines pestered me the way that Toby [the dog] does. 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