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Grace and peace to you today.<\/p>\n

Today’s Kindle deals<\/a> include a number of excellent devotionals from Crossway.<\/p>\n

(Yesterday on the blog: Would You Consider Becoming a Patron?<\/a>)<\/em><\/p>\n

On Spiritual Dreams<\/a> <\/p>\n

I have read a number of different perspectives on Christians and “spiritual dreams.” This one, which I read over the weekend (and which is from a source I admire), was quite interesting to me.<\/p>\n

An Open Letter to the Brothers I Went to Seminary With<\/a> <\/p>\n

I appreciated this open letter from a woman who attended seminary and who reflects on the men who attended with her.<\/p>\n

If Christmas is just cultural, celebrate (or don\u2019t) however you want<\/a> <\/p>\n

This is a good reminder that Christians don’t\u00a0have<\/em> to celebrate Christmas.<\/p>\n

Brightest and Best (Video)<\/a> <\/p>\n

This great rendition of “Brightest and Best” features the Gettys and Ricky Skaggs.<\/p>\n

Dealing with Difficult Decembers<\/a> <\/p>\n

“We spend so much time enjoying the nativity and celebrating the miracle of our Saviour\u2019s birth, that we often forget to get excited and expectant once again for our Lord to come back.”<\/p>\n

Chipping Away Our Confidence in Christ<\/a> <\/p>\n

Doug Eaton: “In the Christian life, there are times of rest and times of struggle, and what we do<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Grace and peace to you today. Today\u2019s Kindle deals include a number of excellent devotionals from Crossway. (Yesterday on the blog: Would You Consider Becoming a Patron?) On Spiritual Dreams I have read a number of different perspectives on Christians and \u201cspiritual dreams.\u201d This one, which I read over the weekend (and which is from a source I admire), was quite interesting to me. An Open Letter to the Brothers I Went to Seminary With I appreciated this open letter \u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19,"featured_media":55050,"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-55042","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\/12\/A20La20Carte20-20concepts202-MON20b_4-1.jpg?fit=910%2C320&ssl=1","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55042","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=55042"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55042\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":55052,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55042\/revisions\/55052"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/55050"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=55042"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=55042"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=55042"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}