{"id":42668,"date":"2021-12-23T00:00:10","date_gmt":"2021-12-23T06:00:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/?p=42668"},"modified":"2021-12-23T00:41:55","modified_gmt":"2021-12-23T06:41:55","slug":"a-la-carte-december-23-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/?p=42668","title":{"rendered":"A La Carte (December 23)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Good morning. Grace and peace to you.<\/p>\n<p><em>(Yesterday on the blog: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.challies.com\/articles\/the-way-ill-be-reading-the-bible-in-2022\/\" rel=\"bookmark\" data-wpel-link=\"internal\">The Way I\u2019ll Be Reading the Bible in 2022<\/a>)<\/em><\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thedisciplemakingparent.com\/can-you-feel-the-incarnation\/?utm_source=pocket_mylist\" data-wpel-link=\"external\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"external noopener noreferrer\">Can You Feel the Incarnation?<\/a> <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I don&#8217;t know about you but I cannot grasp that grace of the incarnation.&#8221; Chap Bettis offers a neat illustration of it here.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/setapart.net\/2021\/12\/21\/when-a-good-god-seems-far-from-good\/?utm_source=pocket_mylist\" data-wpel-link=\"external\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"external noopener noreferrer\">When a Good God Seems Far From Good<\/a> <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Have you ever stood before a spiritual fork in the road? One where you know the &#8216;godly answer&#8217; to your painful circumstances, but there seems to be an impenetrable wall that stands between your head and your heart? It\u2019s the tension between knowing something to be true but struggling to believe it when the evidence seems stacked against it.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"http:\/\/rss.desiringgod.org\/link\/10732\/14958755\/in-search-of-christian-america?utm_source=pocket_mylist\" data-wpel-link=\"external\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"external noopener noreferrer\">Founding Myths and the Second Great Awakening<\/a> <\/p>\n<p>This is a really interesting (and extensive) article on the history of the church in America.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/gentlereformation.com\/2021\/12\/18\/the-lost-art-of-humility\/?utm_source=pocket_mylist\" data-wpel-link=\"external\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"external noopener noreferrer\">The Lost Art of Humility<\/a> <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This is our great problem: we think too highly of ourselves, or too frequently about ourselves. We wonder what other people think of us, and in this era we are desperately aware of cultivating image. But a thin verbal veneer of humility is more fleeting than the sound waves which carried it.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/servantsofgrace.org\/just-call-me-old-fashioned\/?utm_source=pocket_mylist\" data-wpel-link=\"external\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"external noopener noreferrer\">Just Call<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Good morning. Grace and peace to you. (Yesterday on the blog: The Way I\u2019ll Be Reading the Bible in 2022) Can You Feel the Incarnation? \u201cI don\u2019t know about you but I cannot grasp that grace of the incarnation.\u201d Chap Bettis offers a neat illustration of it here. When a Good God Seems Far From Good \u201cHave you ever stood before a spiritual fork in the road? 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