{"id":33886,"date":"2021-05-05T00:00:27","date_gmt":"2021-05-05T05:00:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/?p=33886"},"modified":"2021-05-05T00:32:40","modified_gmt":"2021-05-05T05:32:40","slug":"a-la-carte-may-5-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/?p=33886","title":{"rendered":"A La Carte (May 5)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The God of peace be with you today.<\/p>\n<p>This week Westminster Books has a deal on Michael Kruger&#8217;s book <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wtsbooks.com\/blogs\/2021-enews\/surviving-religion-101?utm_source=challies&amp;utm_medium=challies\" data-wpel-link=\"external\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"external noopener noreferrer\">Surviving Religion 101<\/a><\/em>.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/andreasanborn.com\/2021\/05\/04\/when-adoption-comes-full-circle\/\" data-wpel-link=\"external\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"external noopener noreferrer\">When Adoption Comes Full Circle<\/a> <\/p>\n<p>Don&#8217;t miss this neat account of an adoption come full circle. &#8220;She found me a few years back through Facebook, approaching with respect and grace. We reached out tentatively at first, then forged a sisterhood nurtured by a gradual opening of hearts around the shared love of a precious baby, now grown.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/ealinglevy.wordpress.com\/2021\/05\/04\/where-is-the-love\/\" data-wpel-link=\"external\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"external noopener noreferrer\">Where is the Love?<\/a> <\/p>\n<p>I had this exact question a few weeks ago (and answered it the same way). &#8220;The answer to Question 4 of the Westminster Shorter Catechism \u2013 <em>God is a spirit, infinite, eternal, unchangeable in his being, wisdom, power, holiness, justice, goodness and truth<\/em>\u2013 But where is the Love?\u00a0God is Love (1 John 4:8). It is not as if the framers of the Shorter Catechism didn\u2019t know this. So why omit it?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.str.org\/w\/the-claim-about-homosexuality-in-the-film-1946-is-irrelevant\" data-wpel-link=\"external\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"external noopener noreferrer\">The Claim about Homosexuality in the Film 1946 Is Irrelevant<\/a> <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;An upcoming documentary film claims the RSV translators of the Bible wrongly inserted the word &#8216;homosexuals&#8217; in a New Testament passage back in 1946. The film, titled <em>1946: The Mistranslation that Shifted a<\/p>\n<p><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The God of peace be with you today. This week Westminster Books has a deal on Michael Kruger\u2019s book Surviving Religion 101. When Adoption Comes Full Circle Don\u2019t miss this neat account of an adoption come full circle. \u201cShe found me a few years back through Facebook, approaching with respect and grace. We reached out tentatively at first, then forged a sisterhood nurtured by a gradual opening of hearts around the shared love of a precious baby, now grown.\u201d Where \u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19,"featured_media":33893,"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-33886","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\/05\/A20La20Carte20-20concepts202-WED_5-1.jpg?fit=910%2C320&ssl=1","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33886","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=33886"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33886\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33895,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33886\/revisions\/33895"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/33893"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=33886"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=33886"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=33886"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}