{"id":45503,"date":"2022-03-10T00:00:13","date_gmt":"2022-03-10T06:00:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/?p=45503"},"modified":"2022-03-10T00:16:42","modified_gmt":"2022-03-10T06:16:42","slug":"a-la-carte-march-10-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/?p=45503","title":{"rendered":"A La Carte (March 10)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Grace and peace to you today.<\/p>\n<p>Today&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.challies.com\/kindle-deals-for-christians\" data-wpel-link=\"internal\">Kindle deals<\/a> include a number of good books.<\/p>\n<p><em>(Yesterday on the blog: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.challies.com\/articles\/a-feeding-frenzy\/\" rel=\"bookmark\" data-wpel-link=\"internal\">Showing Mercy in A Feeding Frenzy<\/a>)<\/em><\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/sethlewis.ie\/2022\/03\/09\/my-head-and-the-headlines\/\" data-wpel-link=\"external\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"external noopener noreferrer\">My Head And The Headlines<\/a> <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Reading the news these days is like watching a train wreck in slow motion\u2014except it\u2019s not a train, it\u2019s the whole world. And like a train wreck, as horrifying as it is to watch, it\u2019s also hard to look away.&#8221; Seth reflects on what we may lose with a relentless focus on the headlines.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/bruceashford.net\/2022\/a-christian-approach-to-ptsd-and-trauma\/\" data-wpel-link=\"external\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"external noopener noreferrer\">A Christian Approach to PTSD and Trauma<\/a> <\/p>\n<p>Bruce Ashford: &#8220;We live in a fallen world in which we are sometimes exposed to terrifying events. Through experiencing or witnessing those events, we can experience severe psychological trauma. However, we can be comforted in knowing that the God who experienced a traumatic crucifixion on our behalf is with us in the midst of our trauma, and that he has given medical personnel the ability to treat the brain-based distortions that result from traumatic experiences.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.crossway.org\/articles\/should-the-sick-be-anointed-with-oil-james-5\/\" data-wpel-link=\"external\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"external noopener noreferrer\">Should the Sick Be Anointed with Oil?<\/a> <\/p>\n<p>Robert Plummer takes a look at the passage in James that speaks of prayer and anointing with oil.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theringer.com\/2022\/3\/3\/22956353\/fatherhood-cancer-jonathan-tjarks\" data-wpel-link=\"external\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"external noopener noreferrer\">Does My Son Know You?<\/a> <\/p>\n<p>Jonathan<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Grace and peace to you today. Today\u2019s Kindle deals include a number of good books. (Yesterday on the blog: Showing Mercy in A Feeding Frenzy) My Head And The Headlines \u201cReading the news these days is like watching a train wreck in slow motion\u2014except it\u2019s not a train, it\u2019s the whole world. And like a train wreck, as horrifying as it is to watch, it\u2019s also hard to look away.\u201d Seth reflects on what we may lose with a relentless \u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19,"featured_media":45511,"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-45503","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\/03\/A20La20Carte20-20concepts202-THURS20b_0-2-1.jpg?fit=910%2C320&ssl=1","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45503","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=45503"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45503\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":45513,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45503\/revisions\/45513"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/45511"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=45503"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=45503"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=45503"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}