{"id":34379,"date":"2021-05-19T00:00:54","date_gmt":"2021-05-19T05:00:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/?p=34379"},"modified":"2021-05-19T00:32:04","modified_gmt":"2021-05-19T05:32:04","slug":"a-la-carte-may-19-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/?p=34379","title":{"rendered":"A La Carte (May 19)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Good morning. The grace of the Lord Jesus Christ be with you.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>It hasn&#8217;t been the best week ever for\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.challies.com\/kindle-deals-for-christians\" data-wpel-link=\"internal\">Kindle deals<\/a>, but there are a couple there today and there will be some more tomorrow.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/andreasanborn.com\/2021\/05\/18\/the-wilderness-way\/\" data-wpel-link=\"external\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"external noopener noreferrer\">The Wilderness Way<\/a> <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Have you ever wondered why God appears cruel at times? When He withholds something good or allows something painful, we run up against the walls that simple religion builds to keep us complacent and safe within the manicured yards of our expectations.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.michaeljkruger.com\/why-didnt-my-pastor-tell-me-about-that\/\" data-wpel-link=\"external\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"external noopener noreferrer\">Why Didn\u2019t My Pastor Tell Me About That?<\/a> <\/p>\n<p>Michael Kruger: &#8220;It\u2019s one of the most common questions I get when I talk with Christians who are struggling with what they believe. They\u2019ve stumbled across some problem in the Bible or some issue raised by critical scholars and they don\u2019t have an answer. Then they ask:\u00a0<em>Why didn\u2019t my pastor tell me about that?&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thegospelcoalition.org\/article\/supreme-court-viability-roe\/\" data-wpel-link=\"external\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"external noopener noreferrer\">Supreme-Court Case Could Undermine Roe\u2019s Viability<\/a> <\/p>\n<p>Joe Carter reports on what could be a historic case. &#8220;Could this finally be the case that dismantles <em>Roe v. Wade<\/em>? It\u2019s certainly possible. As Ed Whelan says, the <em>Dobbs<\/em> case &#8216;provides the best opportunity this Court will ever have to overturn <em>Roe<\/em>.&#8217; But even if the Court does<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Good morning. The grace of the Lord Jesus Christ be with you.\u00a0 It hasn\u2019t been the best week ever for\u00a0Kindle deals, but there are a couple there today and there will be some more tomorrow. The Wilderness Way \u201cHave you ever wondered why God appears cruel at times? When He withholds something good or allows something painful, we run up against the walls that simple religion builds to keep us complacent and safe within the manicured yards of our expectations.\u201d \u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19,"featured_media":34387,"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-34379","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_5-2-1.jpg?fit=910%2C320&ssl=1","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34379","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=34379"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34379\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34389,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34379\/revisions\/34389"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/34387"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=34379"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=34379"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=34379"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}