{"id":42019,"date":"2021-12-04T00:00:51","date_gmt":"2021-12-04T06:00:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/?p=42019"},"modified":"2021-12-04T00:49:06","modified_gmt":"2021-12-04T06:49:06","slug":"weekend-a-la-carte-december-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/?p=42019","title":{"rendered":"Weekend A La Carte (December 4)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

May the Lord bless and keep you this weekend.<\/p>\n

I’m very grateful to ShareWord<\/a> for sponsoring the blog this week with some important news<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Today’s Kindle deals<\/a> include a selection of excellent commentaries and other works.<\/p>\n

(Yesterday on the blog: A December Family Update (and Non-Travel\u00a0Report<\/a>)<\/em><\/p>\n

Unfiltered Christmas<\/a> <\/p>\n

Here’s an encouragement to have an unfiltered Christmas. “Material beauty will never be enough. The best of earth will never meet the deepest longing of our brokenness. We long, like pining Bethlehem, for our Mighty God to do great things for us. And He has.”<\/p>\n

Do You Ever Feel Rushed by the Beauty of Forgiveness?<\/a> <\/p>\n

Brad Hambrick \u00a0says, “It\u2019s worth asking, what part of forgiveness is beautiful? The answer is, the last part. The early and middle parts of forgiveness are heinous. They are the parts of the movie or novel that cause us to cringe.”<\/p>\n

The Snowflake Mystery (Video)<\/a> <\/p>\n

This is a really neat video about the mysteries behind snowflakes.<\/p>\n

Social Activism and the New Testament<\/a> <\/p>\n

There are some really interesting points made in this article. “The New Testament chiefly concerns itself with individuals, households, and local assemblies of Christians, and it is not hard to see why.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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