{"id":58853,"date":"2023-03-17T00:00:03","date_gmt":"2023-03-17T05:00:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/?p=58853"},"modified":"2023-03-17T00:50:50","modified_gmt":"2023-03-17T05:50:50","slug":"a-la-carte-march-17-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/?p=58853","title":{"rendered":"A La Carte (March 17)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Good morning from Louisville, Kentucky where we are attending Boyce College\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/boycecollege.com\/admissions\/visit-boyce\/preview\/\" data-wpel-link=\"external\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"external noopener noreferrer\">Preview Day<\/a> for the third time (this one for Michaela\u2019s sake).<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/entrustedtothedirt.com\/2023\/03\/15\/strongmen-vs-the-structures-of-a-healthy-church\/\" data-wpel-link=\"external\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"external noopener noreferrer\">Strongmen vs. The Structures of a Healthy Church<\/a> <\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen modern dictators fall the societies they ruled tend to flounder and splinter. This is because they have previously been gutted. A dictator, in order to increase and maintain his power, needs to systematically weaken all other institutions of civil society that might serve as independent centers of power and organization.\u201d This leads to an interesting reflection on churches.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/tabletalkmagazine.com\/posts\/crisis-in-canada-assisted-suicide\/\" data-wpel-link=\"external\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"external noopener noreferrer\">Crisis in Canada: Assisted Suicide<\/a> <\/p>\n<p>Robert VanDoodewaard writes about a serious social problem in Canada.\u00a0\u201cThough our nation\u2019s violence may primarily be carried out in the sterile rooms of hospitals, it is a grim reality. Behind closed doors, Canada is becoming a nation of state-sanctioned lawlessness and violence.\u201d<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/ploughmansrest.com\/blog\/2023\/3\/16\/the-peculiar-glory-of-unexpected-discoveries\" data-wpel-link=\"external\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"external noopener noreferrer\">The Peculiar Glory of Unexpected Discoveries<\/a> <\/p>\n<p>Chris Thomas: \u201cBut there is a peculiar glory found in unexpected discoveries. A cool fresh stream flowing down a heavily forested gully is enjoyable, but the same stream found in the barren wastelands of some distant desert is a wonder. Treasure, found in a clay jar, is all the more brilliant for the fact of<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Good morning from Louisville, Kentucky where we are attending Boyce College\u2019s Preview Day for the third time (this one for Michaela\u2019s sake). Strongmen vs. The Structures of a Healthy Church \u201cWhen modern dictators fall the societies they ruled tend to flounder and splinter. This is because they have previously been gutted. A dictator, in order to increase and maintain his power, needs to systematically weaken all other institutions of civil society that might serve as independent centers of power and \u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19,"featured_media":58861,"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-58853","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\/03\/A20La20Carte20-20concepts202-FRI_4-2-1.jpg?fit=910%2C320&ssl=1","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58853","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=58853"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58853\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":58863,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58853\/revisions\/58863"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/58861"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=58853"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=58853"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=58853"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}