{"id":30494,"date":"2021-02-08T05:00:50","date_gmt":"2021-02-08T11:00:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/?p=30494"},"modified":"2021-02-08T05:32:07","modified_gmt":"2021-02-08T11:32:07","slug":"a-la-carte-february-8","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/?p=30494","title":{"rendered":"A La Carte (February 8)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Good morning! May the Lord be with you and bless you today.<\/p>\n<p>The current deal at Westminster Books is a good one: significant discounts on some of their <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wtsbooks.com\/blogs\/2021-enews\/our-favorite-systematic-theologies?utm_source=challies&amp;utm_medium=challies\" data-wpel-link=\"external\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"external noopener noreferrer\">favorite systematic theologies<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><em>(Yesterday on the blog: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.challies.com\/quotes\/great-occasions-for-serving-god\/\" rel=\"bookmark\" data-wpel-link=\"internal\">Great Occasions For Serving God<\/a>)<\/em><\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/reformedperspective.ca\/how-letters-mingle-souls\/\" data-wpel-link=\"external\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"external noopener noreferrer\">How Letters Mingle Souls<\/a> <\/p>\n<p>I enjoyed Christine Farenhorst&#8217;s explanation of how letters mingle souls (in a way emails and text messages do not).<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.9marks.org\/article\/10-brief-reflections-on-an-elders-character\/\" data-wpel-link=\"external\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"external noopener noreferrer\">10 Brief Reflections on an Elder\u2019s Character<\/a> <\/p>\n<p>These reflections on the character of an elder are brief but helpful.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"http:\/\/laurenwasher.com\/this-is-how-he-carries-you\/\" data-wpel-link=\"external\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"external noopener noreferrer\">This Is How He Carries You<\/a> <\/p>\n<p>Lauren Washer: &#8220;<em>It\u2019s too much, Lord<\/em>. I can\u2019t count the number of times I\u2019ve uttered some form of these words. Sometimes I whisper through my tears and other times I scribble furiously onto the pages of my journal\u2014early morning thoughts after news of another hardship. Another friend\u2019s suffering. My own difficult circumstances. A world in physical, emotional, and spiritual upheaval.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amberthiessen.com\/post\/from-sunrise-to-sunset\" data-wpel-link=\"external\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"external noopener noreferrer\">From Sunrise to Sunset, And Everything In-Between<\/a> <\/p>\n<p>Amber Thiessen reflects on some of the more difficult parts of her journey: &#8220;Our journey of life will take us through rough patches, to say the least. We\u2019ve persevered through the beginnings of a pandemic. We\u2019ve experienced pain and hardship in relationships,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Good morning! May the Lord be with you and bless you today. The current deal at Westminster Books is a good one: significant discounts on some of their favorite systematic theologies. (Yesterday on the blog: Great Occasions For Serving God) How Letters Mingle Souls I enjoyed Christine Farenhorst\u2019s explanation of how letters mingle souls (in a way emails and text messages do not). 10 Brief Reflections on an Elder\u2019s Character These reflections on the character of an elder are brief \u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19,"featured_media":30501,"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-30494","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\/02\/A20La20Carte20-20concepts202-MON20b_4-2-1.jpg?fit=910%2C320&ssl=1","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30494","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=30494"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30494\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30503,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30494\/revisions\/30503"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/30501"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=30494"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=30494"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=30494"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}