{"id":52630,"date":"2022-09-29T00:00:48","date_gmt":"2022-09-29T05:00:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/?p=52630"},"modified":"2022-09-29T00:46:03","modified_gmt":"2022-09-29T05:46:03","slug":"a-la-carte-september-29-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/?p=52630","title":{"rendered":"A La Carte (September 29)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Grace and peace to you.<\/p>\n<p><em>(Yesterday on the blog: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.challies.com\/articles\/our-understanding-of-earth-and-our-assumptions-of-heaven\/\" rel=\"bookmark\" data-wpel-link=\"internal\">Our Understanding of Earth and Our\u00a0Assumptions of Heaven<\/a>)<\/em><\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/stephenmcalpine.com\/okay-so-its-a-secular-age-but-jesus-is-still-working\/\" data-wpel-link=\"external\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"external noopener noreferrer\">Okay, So it\u2019s a Secular Age, But Jesus is Still Working<\/a> <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Jesus is still working. Yes we call it a secular age, and it truly is, but perhaps it feels like there\u2019s the stirrings of God doing something again in the midst of all of this turmoil and angst. It\u2019s an anxious age, and men\u2019s\u2019 and women\u2019s\u2019 hearts may well fail them as war ramps up again, as seismic changes lurch us from left to right and from Left to Right. Who are we to discount revival?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.christianitytoday.com\/news\/2022\/september\/died-brother-andrew-open-door-smuggled-bibles-into-communis.html\" data-wpel-link=\"external\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"external noopener noreferrer\">Died: Brother Andrew, Who Smuggled Bibles into Communist Countries<\/a> <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Anne van der Bijl, a Dutch evangelical known to Christians worldwide as Brother Andrew, the man who smuggled Bibles into closed Communist countries, has died at the age of 94.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/thinktheology.co.uk\/blog\/article\/how_much_theological_education_do_you_need\" data-wpel-link=\"external\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"external noopener noreferrer\">How Much Theological Education Do You Need?<\/a> <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;How much theological education do you need? It depends, obviously.&#8221; This is a useful illustration to show how different people may need different amounts of theological education.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/credomag.com\/2022\/09\/i-dont-know\/\" data-wpel-link=\"external\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"external noopener noreferrer\">I Don\u2019t Know<\/a> <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Ideally, as the pastor, you should be one of the better-educated people in your church. You have<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Grace and peace to you. (Yesterday on the blog: Our Understanding of Earth and Our\u00a0Assumptions of Heaven) Okay, So it\u2019s a Secular Age, But Jesus is Still Working \u201cJesus is still working. Yes we call it a secular age, and it truly is, but perhaps it feels like there\u2019s the stirrings of God doing something again in the midst of all of this turmoil and angst. 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