{"id":38199,"date":"2021-08-27T00:00:46","date_gmt":"2021-08-27T05:00:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/?p=38199"},"modified":"2021-08-27T00:48:20","modified_gmt":"2021-08-27T05:48:20","slug":"a-la-carte-august-27-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/?p=38199","title":{"rendered":"A La Carte (August 27)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Grace and peace to you today.<\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s a nice little collection of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.challies.com\/kindle-deals-for-christians\/\" data-wpel-link=\"internal\">Kindle books<\/a> from Zondervan on sale today.<\/p>\n<p>On sale this week at Westminster Books is the excellent <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wtsbooks.com\/blogs\/2021-enews\/esv-expository-commentary-series?utm_source=challies&amp;utm_medium=challies\" data-wpel-link=\"external\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"external noopener noreferrer\">ESV Expository Commentary Series<\/a> (which is ideal for preachers and non-preachers alike).<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.firstthings.com\/web-exclusives\/2021\/08\/what-it-would-mean-to-overturn-roe\" data-wpel-link=\"external\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"external noopener noreferrer\">What It Would Mean to Overturn Roe<\/a> <\/p>\n<p>Carl Trueman: &#8220;The Supreme Court decision in Dobbs v. Jackson Women&#8217;s Health Organization, a case that directly challenges our country&#8217;s abortion regime, will have repercussions far beyond the confines of abortion law. Should the Court&#8217;s decision in Dobbs overturn Roe v. Wade and Planned Parenthood v. Casey, then the future of legal abortion in America will truly be transformed.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thegospelcoalition.org\/article\/funeral-i-most-dreaded\/\" data-wpel-link=\"external\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"external noopener noreferrer\">Preaching the Funeral Sermon I Once Most Dreaded<\/a> <\/p>\n<p>This is a hugely encouraging article from Hershael York as he recounts his joy in preaching the funeral he had most dreaded.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/fightoffaithblog.com\/2021\/08\/26\/simulated-sunlight\/\" data-wpel-link=\"external\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"external noopener noreferrer\">Simulated Sunlight<\/a> <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It is essential to distinguish between entertainment and something being able to hold our\u00a0attention.\u00a0When God grabs hold of you while reading his word, he may have your attention, but that is not\u00a0entertainment.\u00a0Something more profound is taking\u00a0place.\u00a0The goal of entertainment is to\u00a0amuse.\u00a0The purpose of corporate worship is to glorify God and commune with\u00a0him.\u00a0The problem happens in planning for worship<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Grace and peace to you today. There\u2019s a nice little collection of Kindle books from Zondervan on sale today. On sale this week at Westminster Books is the excellent ESV Expository Commentary Series (which is ideal for preachers and non-preachers alike). What It Would Mean to Overturn Roe Carl Trueman: \u201cThe Supreme Court decision in Dobbs v. Jackson Women\u2019s Health Organization, a case that directly challenges our country\u2019s abortion regime, will have repercussions far beyond the confines of abortion law. \u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19,"featured_media":38207,"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-38199","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-FRI_3-1.jpg?fit=910%2C320&ssl=1","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38199","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=38199"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38199\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38209,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38199\/revisions\/38209"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/38207"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=38199"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=38199"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=38199"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}