{"id":51170,"date":"2022-08-16T00:00:35","date_gmt":"2022-08-16T05:00:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/?p=51170"},"modified":"2022-08-16T00:48:05","modified_gmt":"2022-08-16T05:48:05","slug":"a-la-carte-august-16-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/?p=51170","title":{"rendered":"A La Carte (August 16)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>There&#8217;s an eclectic little collection of\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.challies.com\/kindle-deals-for-christians\" data-wpel-link=\"internal\">Kindle deals<\/a>\u00a0to browse through today.<\/p>\n<p><em>(Yesterday on the blog: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.challies.com\/articles\/what-can-a-heart-do\/\" rel=\"bookmark\" data-wpel-link=\"internal\">What Can a Heart Do?<\/a>)<\/em><\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/ftc.co\/resource-library\/blog-entries\/is-your-gospel-an-urban-legend-2\/\" data-wpel-link=\"external\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"external noopener noreferrer\">Is Your Gospel an Urban Legend?<\/a> <\/p>\n<p>Jared Wilson asks you to consider whether the gospel you profess is really just a kind of personal urban legend.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/science\/archive\/2022\/08\/bird-flight-evolution-airplanes\/671132\/\" data-wpel-link=\"external\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"external noopener noreferrer\">Planes Have Nothing on Birds<\/a> <\/p>\n<p>I hate all the evolutionary talk in this article, but I do appreciate the point it makes: Humanity&#8217;s best attempts at designing planes still fall far, far short of the most ordinary bird.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/wng.org\/articles\/life-and-limb-1660111013\" data-wpel-link=\"external\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"external noopener noreferrer\">Life and limb<\/a> <\/p>\n<p>Andr\u00e9e Seu Peterson considers how God oversees life and limb and everything else.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/ca.thegospelcoalition.org\/article\/olaudah-equiano-the-unsung-evangelist\/\" data-wpel-link=\"external\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"external noopener noreferrer\">Olaudah Equiano: The Unsung Evangelist<\/a> <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Olaudah Equiano is a name of lasting significance in secular historical discussions, English literary circles, and among students of evangelical church history. Yet, his legacy is not nearly as widely known to the Church at large, certainly not to the degree of figures such as Jonathan Edwards or John Newton.\u00a0This is truly lamentable.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/fightoffaithblog.com\/2022\/08\/14\/when-downcast-look-to-the-throne\/\" data-wpel-link=\"external\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"external noopener noreferrer\">When Downcast, Look to the Throne<\/a> <\/p>\n<p>Doug reminds us of an ancient and biblical form of encouragement.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.knowableword.com\/2022\/08\/15\/what-we-miss-when-we-skip-the-book-of-ezra\/\" data-wpel-link=\"external\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"external noopener noreferrer\">What We Miss When We Skip the Book of Ezra<\/a> <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I couldn\u2019t find any data to justify this suspicion, but I would guess<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There\u2019s an eclectic little collection of\u00a0Kindle deals\u00a0to browse through today. (Yesterday on the blog: What Can a Heart Do?) Is Your Gospel an Urban Legend? Jared Wilson asks you to consider whether the gospel you profess is really just a kind of personal urban legend. Planes Have Nothing on Birds I hate all the evolutionary talk in this article, but I do appreciate the point it makes: Humanity\u2019s best attempts at designing planes still fall far, far short of the \u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19,"featured_media":51178,"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-51170","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\/08\/A20La20Carte20-20concepts202-TUES20b-2-1.jpg?fit=910%2C320&ssl=1","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51170","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=51170"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51170\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":51180,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51170\/revisions\/51180"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/51178"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=51170"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=51170"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=51170"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}