{"id":30615,"date":"2021-02-11T05:00:17","date_gmt":"2021-02-11T11:00:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/?p=30615"},"modified":"2021-02-11T05:19:16","modified_gmt":"2021-02-11T11:19:16","slug":"a-la-carte-february-11-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/?p=30615","title":{"rendered":"A La Carte (February 11)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Good morning! May you experience the grace and peace of the Lord today.<\/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 selection of titles from Crossway.<\/p>\n<p><em>(Yesterday on the blog: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.challies.com\/articles\/why-young-pastors-should-prefer-a-small-church\/\" rel=\"bookmark\" data-wpel-link=\"internal\">Should Young Pastors Prefer a Large or Small Church?<\/a>)<\/em><\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/biblicalpreaching.net\/2021\/02\/09\/how-long-to-prepare-a-sermon\/\" data-wpel-link=\"external\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"external noopener noreferrer\">How Long to Prepare a Sermon?<\/a> <\/p>\n<p>How long should you take to prepare a sermon? That depends a whole lot on a number of factors, as Peter Mead explains here.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.smithsonianmag.com\/history\/black-lives-certainly-mattered-abraham-lincoln-180976963\/\" data-wpel-link=\"external\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"external noopener noreferrer\">Black Lives Certainly Mattered to Abraham Lincoln<\/a> <\/p>\n<p>You probably heard about the San Francisco Unified School District voting to rename Abraham Lincoln High School because \u201cLincoln, like the presidents before him and most after, did not show through policy or rhetoric that black lives ever mattered to them outside of human capital and as casualties of wealth building.\u201d I was glad (and, frankly, a little surprised) to see this strong article from Smithsonian countering that claim.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=fdQyD8B_odY&amp;feature=share\" data-wpel-link=\"external\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"external noopener noreferrer\">In the Blink of an Eye: Space in an Instant (Video)<\/a> <\/p>\n<p>You&#8217;ll never think about blinking the same way again\u2026<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/cbmw.org\/2021\/02\/09\/gender-neutrality-goes-to-washington\/\" data-wpel-link=\"external\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"external noopener noreferrer\">Gender Neutrality Goes to Washington<\/a> <\/p>\n<p>CBMW writes about the absurdity of gender neutrality. &#8220;At some point in the past decade, the battle\u00a0<em>of<\/em>\u00a0the sexes seems to have given way to a war\u00a0<em>on<\/em> the sexes.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/world.wng.org\/2021\/02\/back_of_the_line\" data-wpel-link=\"external\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"external noopener noreferrer\">Back of<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Good morning! May you experience the grace and peace of the Lord today. Today\u2019s Kindle deals include a selection of titles from Crossway. (Yesterday on the blog: Should Young Pastors Prefer a Large or Small Church?) How Long to Prepare a Sermon? How long should you take to prepare a sermon? That depends a whole lot on a number of factors, as Peter Mead explains here. Black Lives Certainly Mattered to Abraham Lincoln You probably heard about the San Francisco \u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19,"featured_media":30622,"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-30615","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-THURS_3-2-1.jpg?fit=910%2C320&ssl=1","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30615","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=30615"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30615\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30624,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30615\/revisions\/30624"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/30622"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=30615"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=30615"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=30615"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}