{"id":44060,"date":"2022-02-03T00:00:48","date_gmt":"2022-02-03T06:00:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/?p=44060"},"modified":"2022-02-03T00:22:02","modified_gmt":"2022-02-03T06:22:02","slug":"a-la-carte-february-3-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/?p=44060","title":{"rendered":"A La Carte (February 3)"},"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\/living-out-biblical-humility-social-media\/\" rel=\"bookmark\" data-wpel-link=\"internal\">Our Hearts and Minds Turned Outward<\/a>)<\/em><\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ligonier.org\/learn\/articles\/dispensationalism\" data-wpel-link=\"external\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"external noopener noreferrer\">What Is Dispensationalism?<\/a> <\/p>\n<p>This is a helpful little introduction to dispensationalism courtesy of Keith Mathison. &#8220;Dispensationalist theology is perhaps best known for its distinctive eschatological doctrines, particularly the doctrine of the pre-tribulation rapture of the church. According to this doctrine\u2026&#8221;<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/sethlewis.ie\/2022\/02\/02\/every-corner-is-crowded\/\" data-wpel-link=\"external\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"external noopener noreferrer\">Every Corner Is Crowded<\/a> <\/p>\n<p>Isn&#8217;t this an interesting thought: &#8220;Can you imagine knowing the true and full history of even one single spot on this wide world of ours?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/ca.thegospelcoalition.org\/article\/who-got-it-wrong-was-there-one-or-two-demoniacs-delivered\/\" data-wpel-link=\"external\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"external noopener noreferrer\">Who Got it Wrong? Was There One Or Two Demoniacs Delivered?<\/a> <\/p>\n<p>George Sinclair: &#8220;The average Canadian does not read the Bible often\u2014if at all. But they do know what &#8216;everyone knows&#8217; that the Bible is full of contradictions. To many Canadians, this is one of several reasons why you should not take the Bible seriously.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.str.org\/w\/defending-without-becoming-defensive\" data-wpel-link=\"external\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"external noopener noreferrer\">Defending without Becoming Defensive<\/a> <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;There is a difference between winning an argument and winning a person.&#8221; STR offers some tips on defending the faith without becoming defensive (or offensive, for that).<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/bruceashford.net\/2022\/manipulation-103-how-to-spot-political-manipulation-and-give-it-no-quarter\/\" data-wpel-link=\"external\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"external noopener noreferrer\">How to Spot Political Manipulation and Give It No Quarter<\/a> <\/p>\n<p>Bruce Ashford: &#8220;In the political sphere, manipulation seems to be the soup du jour. One<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Good morning! Grace and peace to you. (Yesterday on the blog: Our Hearts and Minds Turned Outward) What Is Dispensationalism? This is a helpful little introduction to dispensationalism courtesy of Keith Mathison. \u201cDispensationalist theology is perhaps best known for its distinctive eschatological doctrines, particularly the doctrine of the pre-tribulation rapture of the church. According to this doctrine\u2026\u201d Every Corner Is Crowded Isn\u2019t this an interesting thought: \u201cCan you imagine knowing the true and full history of even one single spot \u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19,"featured_media":44068,"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-44060","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\/2022\/02\/A20La20Carte20-20concepts202-THURS20b_0-1.jpg?fit=910%2C320&ssl=1","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44060","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=44060"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44060\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":44070,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44060\/revisions\/44070"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/44068"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=44060"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=44060"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=44060"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}