{"id":40064,"date":"2021-10-13T00:00:19","date_gmt":"2021-10-13T05:00:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/?p=40064"},"modified":"2021-10-13T05:10:08","modified_gmt":"2021-10-13T10:10:08","slug":"a-la-carte-october-13-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/?p=40064","title":{"rendered":"A La Carte (October 13)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>May the Lord bless and keep you today.<\/p>\n<p>There are lots of good titles related to counseling for sale at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wtsbooks.com\/blogs\/2021-enews\/ccef-2021-conference-bestsellers?utm_source=challies&amp;utm_medium=challies\" data-wpel-link=\"external\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"external noopener noreferrer\">Westminster Books<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Today&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.challies.com\/kindle-deals-for-christians\" data-wpel-link=\"internal\">Kindle deals<\/a> include a few good titles.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.crossway.org\/articles\/dear-pastor-your-shepherd-doesnt-care-how-big-your-church-is\" data-wpel-link=\"external\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"external noopener noreferrer\">Dear Pastor . . . Your Shepherd Doesn\u2019t Care How Big Your Church Is<\/a> <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I never forgot those days in the foyer of the church plant, begging God to send just one or two more our way. I had learned a valuable lesson in the hard days of lack that helped me tremendously in the joyful days of gain\u2014namely, that Christ isn\u2019t really interested in how big my church is.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.michaeljkruger.com\/did-the-heretics-outnumber-the-orthodox-in-early-christianity\" data-wpel-link=\"external\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"external noopener noreferrer\">Did the Heretics Outnumber the Orthodox in Early Christianity?<\/a> <\/p>\n<p>Michael Kruger: &#8220;One of the most common arguments about early Christianity\u2014made popular by Walter Bauer\u2019s 1934 book <em>Orthodoxy and Heresy in Earliest Christianity<\/em><em>\u2014<\/em>is that the earliest centuries had such enormous doctrinal diversity that the \u201cheretics\u201d were as prevalent, if not even more numerous, than the &#8216;orthodox.&#8217; It was not until the 4th century, it is argued, that the orthodox began to turn the tide.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.crossway.org\/articles\/god-tells-us-how-to-know-him\/\" data-wpel-link=\"external\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"external noopener noreferrer\">God Tells Us How to Know Him\u00a0<\/a> <\/p>\n<p>God created people for relationship with him (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.esv.org\/Gen.%201%3A26%E2%80%9331\/\" data-wpel-link=\"external\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"external noopener noreferrer\">Gen. 1:26\u201331<\/a>). This relationship depends on our knowing him. God<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>May the Lord bless and keep you today. There are lots of good titles related to counseling for sale at Westminster Books. Today\u2019s Kindle deals include a few good titles. Dear Pastor . . . Your Shepherd Doesn\u2019t Care How Big Your Church Is \u201cI never forgot those days in the foyer of the church plant, begging God to send just one or two more our way. 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