{"id":29583,"date":"2021-01-16T06:22:29","date_gmt":"2021-01-16T12:22:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/?p=29583"},"modified":"2021-01-16T06:31:26","modified_gmt":"2021-01-16T12:31:26","slug":"weekend-a-la-carte-january-16","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/?p=29583","title":{"rendered":"Weekend A La Carte (January 16)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Good morning. May the grace of the Lord Jesus Christ be with you today and all throughout this weekend.<\/p>\n<p>My gratitude goes to Burke Counseling Group\u2014who offers their <a href=\"https:\/\/www.burkecounselinggroup.com\/\" data-wpel-link=\"external\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"external noopener noreferrer\">counseling services<\/a> via secure video links\u2014for sponsoring the blog this week.<\/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 list of republished classics (as is the case most Saturdays).<\/p>\n<p><em>(Yesterday on the blog: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.challies.com\/personal-reflections\/a-family-update-3\/\" rel=\"bookmark\" data-wpel-link=\"internal\">A Mid-Winter Family Update<\/a>)<\/em><\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/world.wng.org\/2021\/01\/the_wide_gate\" data-wpel-link=\"external\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"external noopener noreferrer\">The Wide Gate<\/a> <\/p>\n<p>Andr\u00e9e Seu Peterson: &#8220;Since Time magazine announced God was dead in 1966, people have done their best to manage without Him, notably in relationships. God\u2019s narrow way of one man and one woman monogamously raising offspring has been paved over with multilane beltways, bypasses, and loops that must look sort of messy from angel altitude.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/thecripplegate.com\/how-to-pray-for-political-leaders\/\" data-wpel-link=\"external\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"external noopener noreferrer\">How To Pray For Our Political Leaders<\/a> <\/p>\n<p>Jesse Johnson has some good suggestions on how to pray for political leaders.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/buildingjerusalem.blog\/2021\/01\/15\/if-we-want-the-best-embrace-a-strong-opposition\/\" data-wpel-link=\"external\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"external noopener noreferrer\">If We Want The Best, Embrace A Strong Opposition<\/a> <\/p>\n<p>This is important. &#8220;Don\u2019t we want our opponents to fail? Particularly in politics because then we can take power? Well, if your main concern is genuinely the acquisition and exercise of power for its own sake, then yes. 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(Yesterday on the blog: A Mid-Winter Family Update) The Wide Gate Andr\u00e9e Seu Peterson: \u201cSince Time magazine announced God was dead in 1966, people have done \u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19,"featured_media":29590,"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-29583","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\/2021\/01\/A20La20Carte20-20concepts202-WEEKEND20b_0-1.jpg?fit=910%2C320&ssl=1","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29583","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=29583"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29583\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29592,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29583\/revisions\/29592"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/29590"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=29583"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=29583"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=29583"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}