{"id":38562,"date":"2021-09-07T00:00:33","date_gmt":"2021-09-07T05:00:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/?p=38562"},"modified":"2021-09-07T00:31:56","modified_gmt":"2021-09-07T05:31:56","slug":"a-la-carte-september-7-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/?p=38562","title":{"rendered":"A La Carte (September 7)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>May the God of love and peace be with you today.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s back-to-school day (at least in this part of the world). Speaking of which, Logos is having a <a href=\"https:\/\/partners.faithlife.com\/click.track?CID=440473&amp;AFID=464975\" data-wpel-link=\"external\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"external noopener noreferrer\">back-to-school sale<\/a> that has some good deals. (Also be sure to look at their\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/partners.faithlife.com\/click.track?CID=436793&amp;AFID=464975\" data-wpel-link=\"external\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"external noopener noreferrer\">Zondervan sale<\/a>.)<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/tabletalkmagazine.com\/posts\/what-are-friends-for\/\" data-wpel-link=\"external\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"external noopener noreferrer\">What Are Friends For?<\/a> <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We have lost the gift and glory of friendship. This is due to a number of factors. We\u2019ve traded talking for texting. We\u2019ve abandoned fellowship for Facebook. Social media has, in reality, become anything but. The season of COVID-19 has pushed many people further away from each other, and we\u2019ve lost our grip on the gracious blessing of friends. Men, in particular it seems, have lost the gift of friendship.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/ftc.co\/resource-library\/blog-entries\/crazy-grace\/\" data-wpel-link=\"external\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"external noopener noreferrer\">Crazy Grace<\/a> <\/p>\n<p>Jared Wilson has some encouragement for pastors. &#8220;Pastor, every Sunday, over and over again, without fail, stubborn and convicted, you take to that pulpit and pin all your hopes on the gospel in your preached text. You aren\u2019t trusting your rhetoric, your well-turned phrases, your homespun stories, your hokey jokes. You aren\u2019t trusting your emotional appeals, your special pleadings, your creative context, your fog and lasers or your eighteen verses of &#8216;Just As I Am.&#8217; You leave<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>May the God of love and peace be with you today. It\u2019s back-to-school day (at least in this part of the world). Speaking of which, Logos is having a back-to-school sale that has some good deals. (Also be sure to look at their\u00a0Zondervan sale.) What Are Friends For? \u201cWe have lost the gift and glory of friendship. This is due to a number of factors. We\u2019ve traded talking for texting. We\u2019ve abandoned fellowship for Facebook. 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