{"id":53896,"date":"2022-11-05T00:00:54","date_gmt":"2022-11-05T05:00:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/?p=53896"},"modified":"2022-11-05T00:20:40","modified_gmt":"2022-11-05T05:20:40","slug":"weekend-a-la-carte-november-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/?p=53896","title":{"rendered":"Weekend A La Carte (November 5)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

My gratitude goes to Ligonier Ministries for sponsoring the blog this week. They’ve got a free book<\/a> on Luther, a Reformed theology bundle<\/a>, and R.C. Sproul’s commentary on Galatians<\/a>\u00a0they’d like to tell you about.<\/p>\n

Today’s Kindle deals<\/a> include some newer and older titles.<\/p>\n

Why Study Church History?<\/a> <\/p>\n

“If church history does not get your blood pumping, you had better check your spiritual pulse.” That’s how Jon Payne begins his article about why you should study church history.<\/p>\n

A Grandmother\u2019s Heart for Her Loved Ones<\/a> <\/p>\n

Patsy Kuipers explains how she influences her children and grandchildren.<\/p>\n

The Tyranny of Sin<\/a> <\/p>\n

“Seldom do we think about sin with as much seriousness as we should, but its destruction is all around us. Its effects devastate both those we love and those we consider enemies. Quite often, we play with sin as if it were a favored pet that could never turn on us, but in reality, the only reason we think little of it is because it has already sunk its teeth into us and has us under its sway.”<\/p>\n

God\u2019s Work and Our Work, Hand in Hand<\/a> <\/p>\n

Ryan uses the illustration of a child learning to walk to explain a<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

My gratitude goes to Ligonier Ministries for sponsoring the blog this week. They\u2019ve got a free book on Luther, a Reformed theology bundle, and R.C. Sproul\u2019s commentary on Galatians\u00a0they\u2019d like to tell you about. Today\u2019s Kindle deals include some newer and older titles. Why Study Church History? \u201cIf church history does not get your blood pumping, you had better check your spiritual pulse.\u201d That\u2019s how Jon Payne begins his article about why you should study church history. A Grandmother\u2019s Heart \u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19,"featured_media":53904,"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-53896","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\/11\/A20La20Carte20-20concepts202-WEEKEND20b_0-1.jpg?fit=910%2C320&ssl=1","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53896","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=53896"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53896\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":53906,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53896\/revisions\/53906"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/53904"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=53896"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=53896"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=53896"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}