{"id":43418,"date":"2022-01-15T00:00:33","date_gmt":"2022-01-15T06:00:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/?p=43418"},"modified":"2022-01-15T00:48:48","modified_gmt":"2022-01-15T06:48:48","slug":"weekend-a-la-carte-january-15","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/?p=43418","title":{"rendered":"Weekend A La Carte (January 15)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Good morning and good day to you!<\/p>\n<p>Today&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.challies.com\/kindle-deals-for-christians\" data-wpel-link=\"internal\">Kindle deals<\/a> include some classics.<\/p>\n<p><em>(Yesterday on the blog: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.challies.com\/resources\/i-still-do-a-marriage-course-for-the-middle-years\/\" rel=\"bookmark\" data-wpel-link=\"internal\">I Still Do: A Marriage Course for the Middle\u00a0Years<\/a>)<\/em><\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/thinktheology.co.uk\/blog\/article\/the_power_of_questions\" data-wpel-link=\"external\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"external noopener noreferrer\">The Power of Questions<\/a> <\/p>\n<p>I enjoyed this look at the rhetorical power of questions\u2014and the different kinds we can pose.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/wng.org\/articles\/everywhere-spoken-against-1641706195\" data-wpel-link=\"external\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"external noopener noreferrer\">Everywhere spoken against<\/a> <\/p>\n<p>Janie B. Cheaney considers Anne Rice&#8217;s strange legacy. &#8220;It seemed improbable for a wildly popular author of paranormal and erotic fiction to fall in love with Jesus. But spiritual pilgrimage characterized most of her life, from Catholicism to mysticism to atheism to agnosticism and back home to the church of her childhood. And beyond. For, after publicly dedicating her craft to Christ and producing three novels about His life, she took one more step.&#8221; The step she took, of course, was walking away from the church.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/thinkingpastorally.com\/2022\/01\/14\/who-in-the-world-am-i-preaching-to\/\" data-wpel-link=\"external\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"external noopener noreferrer\">Who in the world am I preaching to?<\/a> <\/p>\n<p>This is an excellent article by Andrew Roycroft. &#8220;The clarity of my speech will matter, the integrity of my exegesis will count for a lot, the fervency of my prayers is crucial, but self-consciously thinking through who I am addressing can easily slip from the list of priorities. In this post I want to<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Good morning and good day to you! Today\u2019s Kindle deals include some classics. (Yesterday on the blog: I Still Do: A Marriage Course for the Middle\u00a0Years) The Power of Questions I enjoyed this look at the rhetorical power of questions\u2014and the different kinds we can pose. Everywhere spoken against Janie B. Cheaney considers Anne Rice\u2019s strange legacy. \u201cIt seemed improbable for a wildly popular author of paranormal and erotic fiction to fall in love with Jesus. 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