{"id":51195,"date":"2022-08-17T00:00:28","date_gmt":"2022-08-17T05:00:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/?p=51195"},"modified":"2022-08-17T00:35:11","modified_gmt":"2022-08-17T05:35:11","slug":"a-la-carte-august-17-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/?p=51195","title":{"rendered":"A La Carte (August 17)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The Lord be with you and bless you today.<\/p>\n<p>Westminster Books has a deal on the excellent <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wtsbooks.com\/blogs\/2022-enews\/esv-expository-commentary?utm_source=challies&amp;utm_medium=challies\" data-wpel-link=\"external\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"external noopener noreferrer\">ESV Expository Commentary<\/a> series\u2014a series that will help with everything from personal devotions to sermon preparation.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.michaeljkruger.com\/7-reasons-why-the-gospel-of-john-is-so-special\/\" data-wpel-link=\"external\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"external noopener noreferrer\">7 Reasons Why the Gospel of John is So Special<\/a> <\/p>\n<p>Michael Kruger asks &#8220;what exactly makes John so different? Given that John loves the number seven\u2014as one example among many, his gospel is structured around seven &#8216;signs&#8217;\u2014let me offer seven things that makes John so special.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/kevindeyoung.org\/the-pitfalls-and-possibilities-of-being-political\/\" data-wpel-link=\"external\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"external noopener noreferrer\">The Pitfalls and Possibilities of Being \u201cPolitical\u201d<\/a> <\/p>\n<p>Kevin DeYoung continues an interesting series on faith and politics (especially as it pertains to pastors).\u00a0&#8220;If a pastor is better known for his views on COVID-19 or for his analysis of the latest shooting than he is for his views on the Trinity, the person of Christ, and the gospel, then something is wrong.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=yG3eaSNjjEM\" data-wpel-link=\"external\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"external noopener noreferrer\">Donall and Conall and Dawkins 2 (Video)<\/a> <\/p>\n<p>It has been a while since we&#8217;ve heard from Donall and Conall (via LutheranSatire) but they are back and having another conversation with Richard Dawkins.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/equip.sbts.edu\/article\/nine-important-facts-about-muhammad\/\" data-wpel-link=\"external\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"external noopener noreferrer\">Nine Important Facts about Muhammad<\/a> <\/p>\n<p>Ayman Ibrahim covers 9 important facts about Muhammad. &#8220;As more Muslims come to this country, I believe American Christians need<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Lord be with you and bless you today. Westminster Books has a deal on the excellent ESV Expository Commentary series\u2014a series that will help with everything from personal devotions to sermon preparation. 7 Reasons Why the Gospel of John is So Special Michael Kruger asks \u201cwhat exactly makes John so different? Given that John loves the number seven\u2014as one example among many, his gospel is structured around seven \u2018signs\u2019\u2014let me offer seven things that makes John so special.\u201d The \u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19,"featured_media":51203,"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-51195","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-WED_5-2-1.jpg?fit=910%2C320&ssl=1","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51195","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=51195"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51195\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":51205,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51195\/revisions\/51205"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/51203"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=51195"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=51195"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=51195"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}