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Blessings to you today.<\/p>\n

Logos users will want to be sure to grab this month’s free book<\/a> and take a look at the other discounted items. You’ll also find lots of Mobile Ed courses<\/a> significantly marked down.<\/p>\n

(Yesterday on the blog: The Year of Our Dreams or the Year of Our\u00a0Nightmares<\/a>)<\/em><\/p>\n

Look Out! Preparing for \u201823!<\/a> <\/p>\n

“Solomon wrote thousands of proverbs. So when he writes, ‘Above all else\u2026’ \u2013 that should get our attention. What is ‘above all else’ from Solomon\u2019s perspective? In Proverbs 4:23, he tells us: ‘guard your heart.’\u00a0 That is huge.” It is. And it gives us something to ponder at the beginning of a new year.<\/p>\n

Trusting through Trials and Tragedies<\/a> <\/p>\n

“Each year, for some reason, we buy into the belief that next year will be different. As December concludes, we have high hopes that a change in the calendar will end the struggles and hardships that we are facing. However, as the new year dawns, it usually doesn\u2019t take long for such happy hopes to be dashed to pieces by the less-than-romantic reality before us.”<\/p>\n

Was The Pope a Catholic?<\/a> <\/p>\n

Stephen McAlpine considers the death of Pope Benedict XVI and reminds us<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Blessings to you today. Logos users will want to be sure to grab this month\u2019s free book and take a look at the other discounted items. You\u2019ll also find lots of Mobile Ed courses significantly marked down. (Yesterday on the blog: The Year of Our Dreams or the Year of Our\u00a0Nightmares) Look Out! Preparing for \u201823! \u201cSolomon wrote thousands of proverbs. So when he writes, \u2018Above all else\u2026\u2019 \u2013 that should get our attention. What is \u2018above all else\u2019 from \u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19,"featured_media":56168,"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-56160","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\/2023\/01\/A20La20Carte20-20concepts202-TUES20b-1.jpg?fit=910%2C320&ssl=1","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56160","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=56160"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56160\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":56170,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56160\/revisions\/56170"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/56168"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=56160"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=56160"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=56160"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}