{"id":37637,"date":"2021-08-17T00:00:39","date_gmt":"2021-08-17T05:00:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/?p=37637"},"modified":"2021-08-17T00:03:43","modified_gmt":"2021-08-17T05:03:43","slug":"a-la-carte-august-17-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/?p=37637","title":{"rendered":"A La Carte (August 17)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>May the God of love and peace be with you today.<\/p>\n<p><em>(Yesterday on the blog: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.challies.com\/articles\/success-beyond-what-we-can-handle\/\" rel=\"bookmark\" data-wpel-link=\"internal\">Success Beyond What We Can Handle<\/a>)<\/em><\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/wng.org\/articles\/return-of-the-taliban-1628890899?utm_source=pocket_mylist\" data-wpel-link=\"external\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"external noopener noreferrer\">Return of the Taliban<\/a> <\/p>\n<p>Mindy Belz&#8217;s\u00a0article from WORLD is now a few days old, and hence somewhat out-of-date, but does explain some of the context to the Taliban takeover of Afghanistan.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.9marks.org\/article\/afghan-pastors-ask-for-prayer\/?utm_source=pocket_mylist\" data-wpel-link=\"external\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"external noopener noreferrer\">Afghan Pastors Ask for Prayer<\/a> <\/p>\n<p>And speaking of Afghanistan, here are prayer requests from Christians within the country. &#8220;As Taliban forces have swallowed up Afghanistan and even now the capital city of Kabul, pastors in the country have been emailing and messaging me over the last few days, even hours, anxious for prayer.&#8221; (See also:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/lisalageorge.com\/2021\/08\/15\/pray-for-afghanistan\/?utm_source=pocket_mylist\" data-wpel-link=\"external\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"external noopener noreferrer\">Pray for Afghanistan<\/a> by Lisa LaGeorge)<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/lifewayresearch.com\/2021\/08\/16\/archaeologists-find-evidence-of-biblical-earthquake\/?utm_source=pocket_mylist\" data-wpel-link=\"external\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"external noopener noreferrer\">Archaeologists Find Evidence of Biblical Earthquake<\/a> <\/p>\n<p>Aaron Earls: &#8220;For the first time, archaeologists\u00a0have unearthed\u00a0evidence for an earthquake\u00a0Old Testament prophets mentioned\u00a0and compared to end times events.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/buildingjerusalem.blog\/2021\/08\/16\/dont-trust-your-feelings-even-your-worst-duffer-sermons-bring-glory-to-god\/?utm_source=pocket_mylist\" data-wpel-link=\"external\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"external noopener noreferrer\">Don\u2019t Trust Your Feelings, Even Your Worst Duffer Sermons Bring Glory To God<\/a> <\/p>\n<p>Stephen Kneale says &#8220;we shouldn\u2019t assume that our feelings give us any real insight into what the Lord might be doing. Instead, we should preach the Word with confidence \u2013 even the ones we feel are right duffers.&#8221; Which reminds me, the British have the best slang,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>May the God of love and peace be with you today. (Yesterday on the blog: Success Beyond What We Can Handle) Return of the Taliban Mindy Belz\u2019s\u00a0article from WORLD is now a few days old, and hence somewhat out-of-date, but does explain some of the context to the Taliban takeover of Afghanistan. Afghan Pastors Ask for Prayer And speaking of Afghanistan, here are prayer requests from Christians within the country. \u201cAs Taliban forces have swallowed up Afghanistan and even now \u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19,"featured_media":37645,"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-37637","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\/08\/A20La20Carte20-20concepts202-TUES_3-2-1.jpg?fit=910%2C320&ssl=1","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37637","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=37637"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37637\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37647,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37637\/revisions\/37647"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/37645"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=37637"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=37637"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=37637"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}