{"id":46713,"date":"2022-04-14T00:00:26","date_gmt":"2022-04-14T05:00:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/?p=46713"},"modified":"2022-04-14T00:31:46","modified_gmt":"2022-04-14T05:31:46","slug":"a-la-carte-april-14-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/?p=46713","title":{"rendered":"A La Carte (April 14)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Grace and peace to you today, my friends.<\/p>\n

(Yesterday on the blog: 40 Random Pieces of Advice for the Christian\u00a0Life<\/a>)<\/em><\/p>\n

Was Jesus Punctual?<\/a> <\/p>\n

I found this a very helpful cross-cultural look at punctuality. “The English phrase \u2018don\u2019t waste your time\u2019 has an equivalent in Spanish: \u2018no pierdas el tiempo\u2019, which strictly translated means \u2018don\u2019t lose [the] time\u2019. There is, nonetheless, a subtle difference between the English and the Spanish. Whereas a Westerner feels they can control time (by deciding whether to waste it or not), a Latin American feels they cannot control time (it gets lost).”<\/p>\n

This is the Day<\/a> <\/p>\n

I think you’ll enjoy this new song from CityAlight. It’s another good one!<\/p>\n

Ligonier Theological Study Guides<\/a> <\/p>\n

Ligonier Ministries has recently begun posting a series of theological study guides. Nick Batzig has rounded them up for us.<\/p>\n

Seedlings Need The Weather<\/a> <\/p>\n

“When we asked a gardener friend, he told us that the absence of difficulty was not the solution to their problem. It was<\/em> the problem. The trouble for our seedlings\u2014the trouble that made them weak\u2014was that they had no trouble. Without at least some exposure to the elements, they would never grow strong.” There’s a lesson<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Grace and peace to you today, my friends. (Yesterday on the blog: 40 Random Pieces of Advice for the Christian\u00a0Life) Was Jesus Punctual? I found this a very helpful cross-cultural look at punctuality. \u201cThe English phrase \u2018don\u2019t waste your time\u2019 has an equivalent in Spanish: \u2018no pierdas el tiempo\u2019, which strictly translated means \u2018don\u2019t lose [the] time\u2019. There is, nonetheless, a subtle difference between the English and the Spanish. Whereas a Westerner feels they can control time (by deciding whether \u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19,"featured_media":46721,"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-46713","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\/04\/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\/46713","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=46713"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46713\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":46723,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46713\/revisions\/46723"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/46721"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=46713"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=46713"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=46713"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}