{"id":43740,"date":"2022-01-25T00:00:40","date_gmt":"2022-01-25T06:00:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/?p=43740"},"modified":"2022-01-25T00:35:52","modified_gmt":"2022-01-25T06:35:52","slug":"a-la-carte-january-25-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/?p=43740","title":{"rendered":"A La Carte (January 25)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>My gratitude goes to the kind soul who, in the middle of the night, braved the -22 weather to deliver a Voddie Baucham tract to our home and the others in the neighborhood! It&#8217;s genuinely much appreciated.<\/p>\n<p><em>(Yesterday on the blog: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.challies.com\/articles\/when-the-battlefield-goes-quiet\/\" rel=\"bookmark\" data-wpel-link=\"internal\">When the Battlefield Goes Quiet<\/a>)<\/em><\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thegospelcoalition.org\/blogs\/kevin-deyoung\/toward-a-better-discussion-about-abuse\/\" data-wpel-link=\"external\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"external noopener noreferrer\">Toward a Better Discussion about Abuse<\/a> <\/p>\n<p>I appreciate Kevin DeYoung&#8217;s attempt here to nudge Christians toward a better discussion about abuse. &#8220;Depending on a whole host of factors\u2014one\u2019s personality, position, experience, or context\u2014we tend to see the present dangers leading in different directions. For some, the most pressing concern is obviously that abuse is perpetrated, minimized, and covered up in the church. For others, there is another concern, that abuse is becoming a totalizing category and that even the accusation of abuse takes down everyone and everything in its path.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"http:\/\/rss.desiringgod.org\/link\/10732\/15028687\/did-bathsheba-sin-with-david\" data-wpel-link=\"external\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"external noopener noreferrer\">Did Bathsheba Sin with David?<\/a> <\/p>\n<p>John Piper answers an important question about David and Bathsheba. &#8220;I think there are pointers that David exerted a kind of pressure on her to warrant the accusation of rape \u2026 I see two indications that David threw his weight around \u2014 threw his power, his influence, his position \u2014 in such a way as to<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My gratitude goes to the kind soul who, in the middle of the night, braved the -22 weather to deliver a Voddie Baucham tract to our home and the others in the neighborhood! It\u2019s genuinely much appreciated. 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