{"id":58008,"date":"2023-02-24T00:00:20","date_gmt":"2023-02-24T06:00:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/?p=58008"},"modified":"2023-02-24T01:01:26","modified_gmt":"2023-02-24T07:01:26","slug":"a-la-carte-february-24-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/?p=58008","title":{"rendered":"A La Carte (February 24)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The grace of the Lord Jesus be with you today.<\/p>\n<p>There are some new\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.challies.com\/kindle-deals-for-christians\" data-wpel-link=\"internal\">Kindle deals<\/a>\u00a0for you this morning.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/entrustedtothedirt.com\/2023\/02\/22\/no-word-for-grace\/\" data-wpel-link=\"external\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"external noopener noreferrer\">No Word For Grace<\/a> <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;How do you preach the gospel in a tribe where there is no word for grace?&#8221; What an interesting challenge!<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thegospelcoalition.org\/article\/hearts-strangely-warmed-asbury\/\" data-wpel-link=\"external\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"external noopener noreferrer\">Hearts Strangely Warmed at Asbury<\/a> <\/p>\n<p>I really appreciate this charitable take on the recent revival from Fred Sanders and Joe Henderson.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/writtenforourinstruction.com\/doing-what-is-right-without-needing-a-new-word-from-the-lord\/\" data-wpel-link=\"external\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"external noopener noreferrer\">Doing what is right without needing a new word from the Lord<\/a> <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;\u2026sometimes we make the service of God a little too mystical. We look for guidance and pray for God to open doors. Some might ask God for a sign before they do something, or expect a special word from God for them personally telling them the right decision to make. Some seek a sense of peace about a decision. While this does exhibit faith in believing that God can do this, it is not a Biblical expectation.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=aQ0GTcC2_fw\" data-wpel-link=\"external\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"external noopener noreferrer\">Unexpected English Idioms (Phil 3:5)<\/a> <\/p>\n<p>Bill Mounce provides an example of a case in which a very literal translation can actually hinder understanding.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.christianitytoday.com\/news\/2023\/february\/earthquake-turkey-syria-christians-bibles-relief-first-hope.html\" data-wpel-link=\"external\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"external noopener noreferrer\">Turkish Christians Plead: Don\u2019t Distribute Bibles After Earthquake<\/a> <\/p>\n<p>CT reports on Christian relief efforts in Turkey. &#8220;The Protestant Association of Turkey (TeK)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The grace of the Lord Jesus be with you today. There are some new\u00a0Kindle deals\u00a0for you this morning. No Word For Grace \u201cHow do you preach the gospel in a tribe where there is no word for grace?\u201d What an interesting challenge! Hearts Strangely Warmed at Asbury I really appreciate this charitable take on the recent revival from Fred Sanders and Joe Henderson. Doing what is right without needing a new word from the Lord \u201c\u2026sometimes we make the service \u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19,"featured_media":58016,"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-58008","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\/02\/A20La20Carte20-20concepts202-FRI20b-1.jpg?fit=910%2C320&ssl=1","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58008","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=58008"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58008\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":58018,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58008\/revisions\/58018"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/58016"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=58008"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=58008"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=58008"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}