{"id":28178,"date":"2020-12-10T05:15:30","date_gmt":"2020-12-10T11:15:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/?p=28178"},"modified":"2020-12-10T05:52:49","modified_gmt":"2020-12-10T11:52:49","slug":"a-la-carte-december-10","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/?p=28178","title":{"rendered":"A La Carte (December 10)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Today&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.challies.com\/kindle-deals-for-christians\" data-wpel-link=\"internal\">Kindle deals<\/a> include some devotionals from Crossway. (While it&#8217;s not a Christian book, Bill Bryson&#8217;s <em>The Body<\/em> is on sale today; I found it a fascinating read, though you need to be willing to see design where he sees evolution.)<\/p>\n<p><em>(Yesterday on the blog: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.challies.com\/resources\/my-favorite-books-of-2020\/\" rel=\"bookmark\" data-wpel-link=\"internal\">My Top 10 Books of 2020<\/a>)<\/em><\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/gentlereformation.com\/2020\/12\/09\/leah\/\" data-wpel-link=\"external\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"external noopener noreferrer\">Leah<\/a> <\/p>\n<p>I think you&#8217;ll enjoy reading this sweet article about a woman named Leah. &#8220;Leah died at home one year ago this week on the Lord\u2019s Day. She stepped into glory as the rest of the saints at 2RP in Indianapolis were stepping into the church building. She struggled with chronic illness, so we knew her days on earth were coming to an end. Her death was not a surprise, but her life was a delightful surprise.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thegospelcoalition.org\/article\/economics-for-church-leaders-understanding-economy\/\" data-wpel-link=\"external\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"external noopener noreferrer\">Economics for Church Leaders: Understanding \u2018The Economy\u2019<\/a> <\/p>\n<p>Joe Carter has put together a really helpful article on understanding what is meant by &#8220;the economy.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/ftc.co\/resource-library\/blog-entries\/an-empty-chair-at-christmas\/\" data-wpel-link=\"external\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"external noopener noreferrer\">An Empty Chair at Christmas<\/a> <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I\u2019m sure you have tried to lift it, and maybe you feel like this time of year is another opportunity to hopelessly carry the burden. The heaviness of death that Christmas has the tendency to bring is the reason Jesus<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today\u2019s Kindle deals include some devotionals from Crossway. (While it\u2019s not a Christian book, Bill Bryson\u2019s The Body is on sale today; I found it a fascinating read, though you need to be willing to see design where he sees evolution.) (Yesterday on the blog: My Top 10 Books of 2020) Leah I think you\u2019ll enjoy reading this sweet article about a woman named Leah. \u201cLeah died at home one year ago this week on the Lord\u2019s Day. She stepped \u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19,"featured_media":28185,"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-28178","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\/12\/A20La20Carte20-20concepts202-THURS20b_0-2-1.jpg?fit=910%2C320&ssl=1","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28178","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=28178"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28178\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28187,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28178\/revisions\/28187"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/28185"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=28178"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=28178"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=28178"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}