{"id":47259,"date":"2022-04-29T00:00:24","date_gmt":"2022-04-29T05:00:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/?p=47259"},"modified":"2022-04-29T00:17:49","modified_gmt":"2022-04-29T05:17:49","slug":"a-la-carte-april-29-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/?p=47259","title":{"rendered":"A La Carte (April 29)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>May the Lord be with you and bless you today.<\/p>\n<p><em>(Yesterday on the blog: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.challies.com\/resources\/new-and-notable-christian-books-for-april-2022\/\" rel=\"bookmark\" data-wpel-link=\"internal\">New and Notable Christian Books for April\u00a02022<\/a>)<\/em><\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"http:\/\/rss.desiringgod.org\/link\/10732\/15254959\/no-one-knows-my-pain\" data-wpel-link=\"external\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"external noopener noreferrer\">No One Knows My Pain<\/a> <\/p>\n<p>Vaneetha Rendall Risner writes about a phenomenon common to those who suffer. &#8220;Rather than inviting others into my pain and grief, I\u2019ve often pushed them away. I\u2019ve felt a vague sense of self-righteousness, confident that no one could speak into my life except God himself. I\u2019ve dismissed others\u2019 experiences, even the comfort of friends, because they couldn\u2019t fully relate to my suffering.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thegospelcoalition.org\/article\/uncool-church\/\" data-wpel-link=\"external\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"external noopener noreferrer\">In Praise of the Boring, Uncool Church<\/a> <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Relevance is no substitute for reverence and indeed may compromise it. The Christian life shouldn\u2019t be oriented around being liked; it should be oriented around loving God and loving others. Far less important than being fashionable is being faithful. Far more crucial than keeping up with the Joneses is staying rooted in God\u2019s unchanging Word.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.firstthings.com\/web-exclusives\/2022\/04\/baylor-university-charters-lgbtq-group\" data-wpel-link=\"external\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"external noopener noreferrer\">Baylor University Charters LGBTQ Group<\/a> <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The news that Baylor University has officially chartered Prism, an LGBT student organization on campus, marks an important moment in Christian higher education in the USA.&#8221; Carl Trueman tells why this is so significant.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ilfordipc.co.uk\/2022\/04\/28\/the-most-revealing-meeting-at-church\/\" data-wpel-link=\"external\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"external noopener noreferrer\">The most revealing meeting at church<\/a> <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Martin Buber<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>May the Lord be with you and bless you today. (Yesterday on the blog: New and Notable Christian Books for April\u00a02022) No One Knows My Pain Vaneetha Rendall Risner writes about a phenomenon common to those who suffer. \u201cRather than inviting others into my pain and grief, I\u2019ve often pushed them away. I\u2019ve felt a vague sense of self-righteousness, confident that no one could speak into my life except God himself. I\u2019ve dismissed others\u2019 experiences, even the comfort of friends, \u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19,"featured_media":47267,"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-47259","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-FRI_4-1.jpg?fit=910%2C320&ssl=1","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47259","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=47259"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47259\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":47269,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47259\/revisions\/47269"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/47267"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=47259"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=47259"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=47259"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}