{"id":42302,"date":"2021-12-13T00:00:44","date_gmt":"2021-12-13T06:00:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/?p=42302"},"modified":"2021-12-13T00:31:51","modified_gmt":"2021-12-13T06:31:51","slug":"a-la-carte-december-13-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/?p=42302","title":{"rendered":"A La Carte (December 13)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Good morning, my friends. Grace and peace to you today.<\/p>\n<p>In case you missed it, there was a very good list of\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.challies.com\/kindle-deals-for-christians\" data-wpel-link=\"internal\">Kindle deals<\/a>\u00a0on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>I just wanted to offer the reminder that my latest book, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wtsbooks.com\/products\/knowing-and-enjoying-god-words-from-the-wise-9780736983853?utm_source=challies&amp;utm_medium=challies\" data-wpel-link=\"external\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"external noopener noreferrer\"><em>Knowing and Enjoying God<\/em><\/a>, is available and perhaps a reasonable gift or devotional option.<\/p>\n<p><em>(Yesterday on the blog: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.challies.com\/quotes\/the-tail-end-of-our-tale\/\" rel=\"bookmark\" data-wpel-link=\"internal\">The Tail End of our Tale<\/a>)<\/em><\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/samueldjames.substack.com\/p\/12-observations-on-spiritual-authority\" data-wpel-link=\"external\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"external noopener noreferrer\">12 Observations on Spiritual Authority<\/a> <\/p>\n<p>Samuel James makes some interesting observations about spiritual authority here.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.feedingonchrist.com\/blog\/post\/deconstructing-ambiguity\" data-wpel-link=\"external\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"external noopener noreferrer\">Deconstructing Deconstructionism<\/a> <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Conversations about deconstruction seem to be ubiquitous. Legion are the number of articles, social media links, sermon series, and videos dedicated to critiquing existing theological traditions, parachurch platforms, or public religious figures. While those engaging in this phenomenon have done so from several vantage points, two common approaches are taken by those leaving churches that teach historic Christian doctrine and ethics. Simply put, those approaches are exaggeration and ambiguity.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/thelaymenslounge.com\/an-open-letter-to-listeners-of-the-rise-fall-of-mars-hill\/\" data-wpel-link=\"external\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"external noopener noreferrer\">An Open Letter to Listeners of \u201cThe Rise &amp; Fall of Mars Hill\u201d<\/a> <\/p>\n<p>I expect some will vociferously disagree with this article, but we&#8217;re rarely harmed by a thoughtful challenge, are we? &#8220;Mark Driscoll, based upon the charges brought against him from Mars Hill leaders and members, was unfit to be a<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Good morning, my friends. Grace and peace to you today. In case you missed it, there was a very good list of\u00a0Kindle deals\u00a0on Saturday. I just wanted to offer the reminder that my latest book, Knowing and Enjoying God, is available and perhaps a reasonable gift or devotional option. (Yesterday on the blog: The Tail End of our Tale) 12 Observations on Spiritual Authority Samuel James makes some interesting observations about spiritual authority here. Deconstructing Deconstructionism \u201cConversations about deconstruction seem \u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19,"featured_media":42310,"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-42302","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\/12\/A20La20Carte20-20concepts202-MON_1-2-1.jpg?fit=910%2C320&ssl=1","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42302","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=42302"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42302\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42312,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42302\/revisions\/42312"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/42310"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=42302"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=42302"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=42302"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}