{"id":48889,"date":"2022-06-14T00:00:18","date_gmt":"2022-06-14T05:00:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/?p=48889"},"modified":"2022-06-14T00:05:00","modified_gmt":"2022-06-14T05:05:00","slug":"a-la-carte-june-14-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/?p=48889","title":{"rendered":"A La Carte (June 14)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I am in Grand Rapids today on day two of recording the audiobook for <em>Seasons of Sorrow<\/em>. So far it is going quite well, I think, and I hope to be finished by this evening.<\/p>\n<p><em>(Yesterday on the blog: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.challies.com\/articles\/the-harder-our-earth-the-better-our-heaven\/\" rel=\"bookmark\" data-wpel-link=\"internal\">The Harder Our Earth, the Sweeter Our Heaven<\/a>)<\/em><\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/bredenhof.ca\/2022\/06\/13\/pastoral-q-a-are-more-prayers-more-effective\/\" data-wpel-link=\"external\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"external noopener noreferrer\">Pastoral Q &amp; A: Are More Prayers More Effective?<\/a> <\/p>\n<p>This is a good question: Are prayers more effective when there are more of them?<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kouya.net\/?p=13879\" data-wpel-link=\"external\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"external noopener noreferrer\">In Praise of Single Women<\/a> <\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn 1 Corinthians 7, Paul makes a case for Christians remaining single and not marrying. This runs against the grain of not just our wider society but also of much evangelicalism, where finding a life partner is seen as the highest calling in life. However, after years in mission leadership, I can see exactly what Paul is getting at.\u201d<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.epm.org\/blog\/2022\/Jun\/13\/mission-more-disciples\" data-wpel-link=\"external\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"external noopener noreferrer\">Our Mission: Make More Disciples and Fewer Performers<\/a> <\/p>\n<p>Randy Alcorn is concerned that the church is better at making performers than making true disciples.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/thinktheology.co.uk\/blog\/article\/faithful_in_exile\" data-wpel-link=\"external\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"external noopener noreferrer\">Faithful in Exile<\/a> <\/p>\n<p>This is an interesting one. \u201cThe stories of Daniel and Esther are helpful to us in working out how we should navigate the demands of authority. Daniel and Esther were both in exile (canonically these<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am in Grand Rapids today on day two of recording the audiobook for Seasons of Sorrow. So far it is going quite well, I think, and I hope to be finished by this evening. (Yesterday on the blog: The Harder Our Earth, the Sweeter Our Heaven) Pastoral Q &#038; A: Are More Prayers More Effective? This is a good question: Are prayers more effective when there are more of them? In Praise of Single Women \u201cIn 1 Corinthians 7, \u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19,"featured_media":48897,"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-48889","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\/06\/A20La20Carte20-20concepts202-TUES20b-2-1.jpg?fit=910%2C320&ssl=1","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48889","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=48889"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48889\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":48899,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48889\/revisions\/48899"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/48897"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=48889"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=48889"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=48889"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}