{"id":36681,"date":"2021-07-23T00:00:48","date_gmt":"2021-07-23T05:00:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/?p=36681"},"modified":"2021-07-23T00:46:22","modified_gmt":"2021-07-23T05:46:22","slug":"a-la-carte-july-23-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/?p=36681","title":{"rendered":"A La Carte (July 23)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Grace and peace to you from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/spiritualtheology.net\/a-spirituality-of-quitting\/?utm_source=pocket_mylist\" data-wpel-link=\"external\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"external noopener noreferrer\">A Spirituality of Quitting<\/a> <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Most of us are very uncomfortable with quitting. We hear a lot about going after your dreams, achieving big things, and unleashing the untapped talents within\u2014and this is the kind language that comes from some pulpits. But even if you aren\u2019t in a church that harps on catalyzing your calling, you know the word &#8216;quit&#8217; feels like one of those infamous four letter words. We don\u2019t like it. We don\u2019t like to say it. And we definitely don\u2019t devote time to thinking about quitting.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.redeemingproductivity.com\/the-humbling-to-do-list\/?utm_source=pocket_mylist\" data-wpel-link=\"external\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"external noopener noreferrer\">The Humbling To-Do List<\/a> <\/p>\n<p>Reagan Rose considers the value of the simple to-do list. &#8220;A lot of us have this idealized vision of a productive life in which our time is perfectly balanced, we always finish our tasks, and we end the day satisfied with ourselves.\u00a0But that dream rarely comports with reality. And an unfinished to-do list is the most stinging reminder of how frequently we fall short of even our least ambitious goals.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.crossway.org\/articles\/a-10-question-catechism-for-one-on-one-pastoral-care\/?utm_source=pocket_mylist\" data-wpel-link=\"external\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"external noopener noreferrer\">A 10 Question Catechism for One-on-One Pastoral Care<\/a> <\/p>\n<p>This is key and classic stuff from Richard Baxter.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.feedingonchrist.com\/blog\/post\/preaching-preferred-pronouns?utm_source=pocket_mylist\" data-wpel-link=\"external\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"external noopener noreferrer\">Preaching Preferred Pronouns<\/a> <\/p>\n<p>Nick<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Grace and peace to you from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ. A Spirituality of Quitting \u201cMost of us are very uncomfortable with quitting. We hear a lot about going after your dreams, achieving big things, and unleashing the untapped talents within\u2014and this is the kind language that comes from some pulpits. But even if you aren\u2019t in a church that harps on catalyzing your calling, you know the word \u2018quit\u2019 feels like one of those infamous four \u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19,"featured_media":36689,"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-36681","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\/07\/A20La20Carte20-20concepts202-FRI20b-1.jpg?fit=910%2C320&ssl=1","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36681","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=36681"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36681\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36691,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36681\/revisions\/36691"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/36689"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=36681"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=36681"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=36681"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}