{"id":55531,"date":"2022-12-17T00:00:55","date_gmt":"2022-12-17T06:00:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/?p=55531"},"modified":"2022-12-17T00:45:54","modified_gmt":"2022-12-17T06:45:54","slug":"weekend-a-la-carte-december-17","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/?p=55531","title":{"rendered":"Weekend A La Carte (December 17)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>May you enjoy the Lord&#8217;s rich blessings as you serve and worship him this weekend.<\/p>\n<p>My gratitude goes to <a href=\"https:\/\/burkecare.org\/\" data-wpel-link=\"external\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"external noopener noreferrer\">Burke Care<\/a> for sponsoring the blog this week to invite you to schedule a session with their certified biblical counselors.<\/p>\n<p>Today&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.challies.com\/kindle-deals-for-christians\" data-wpel-link=\"internal\">Kindle deals<\/a> include some newer books and some older ones.<\/p>\n<p><em>(Yesterday on the blog: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.challies.com\/resources\/my-top-books-of-2022\/\" rel=\"bookmark\" data-wpel-link=\"internal\">My Top Books of 2022<\/a>)<\/em><\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/guymrichard.com\/2022\/12\/was-jesus-really-born-of-a-virgin\/\" data-wpel-link=\"external\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"external noopener noreferrer\">Was Jesus Really Born of a Virgin?<\/a> <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;For many people, the question of whether or not a virgin can give birth is in the same category as questions about whether or not pigs can fly or time can be reversed or the sun can be stopped from shining. But in each of these circumstances, we must remember that all it takes for these &#8216;supernatural&#8217; events to be possible is for a &#8216;supernatural&#8217; God to exist.&#8221; Guy Richard explains.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/visualtheology.ck.page\/2023-reading-challenge\" data-wpel-link=\"external\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"external noopener noreferrer\">2023 Reading Challenge<\/a> <\/p>\n<p>Visual Theology has its annual reading challenge ready to go. (<a href=\"https:\/\/visualtheology.church\/shop\/posters\/2023-reading-challenge\/\" data-wpel-link=\"external\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"external noopener noreferrer\">Click here<\/a> for the poster.)<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/redeemedreader.com\/annual-reading-challenge-for-kids-and-teens\/\" data-wpel-link=\"external\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"external noopener noreferrer\">Annual Reading Challenge for Kids and Teens<\/a> <\/p>\n<p>And while we&#8217;re on the subject of reading challenges, Redeemer Reader also has theirs ready to go. It is designed for kids.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.karenwadehayes.com\/faith\/2022\/11\/28\/silent-nights\" data-wpel-link=\"external\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"external noopener noreferrer\">Silent Nights<\/a> <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;One December evening, while home alone eating dinner, I suddenly became<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>May you enjoy the Lord\u2019s rich blessings as you serve and worship him this weekend. My gratitude goes to Burke Care for sponsoring the blog this week to invite you to schedule a session with their certified biblical counselors. Today\u2019s Kindle deals include some newer books and some older ones. (Yesterday on the blog: My Top Books of 2022) Was Jesus Really Born of a Virgin? \u201cFor many people, the question of whether or not a virgin can give birth \u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19,"featured_media":55539,"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":[303],"class_list":["post-55531","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tim-challies","tag-articles","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-WEEKEND20b_0-1.jpg?fit=910%2C320&ssl=1","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55531","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=55531"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55531\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":55541,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55531\/revisions\/55541"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/55539"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=55531"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=55531"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=55531"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}