{"id":61701,"date":"2023-06-08T00:00:41","date_gmt":"2023-06-08T05:00:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/?p=61701"},"modified":"2023-06-08T00:38:15","modified_gmt":"2023-06-08T05:38:15","slug":"a-la-carte-june-8-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/?p=61701","title":{"rendered":"A La Carte (June 8)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Good morning from Brazil. I\u2019m in S\u00e3o Paulo this morning and making my way to Recife this afternoon. We will soon begin filming yet another episode of <em>Worship Round the World<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Today&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.challies.com\/kindle-deals-for-christians\" data-wpel-link=\"internal\">Kindle deals<\/a> include a couple of good options.<\/p>\n<p><em>(Yesterday on the blog: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.challies.com\/articles\/your-loved-ones-love-you-still\/\" rel=\"bookmark\" data-wpel-link=\"internal\">Your Loved Ones Love You Still<\/a>)<\/em><\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.equip.org\/articles\/the-upside-down-metaphor-a-hermeneutical-critique-of-josh-butlers-beautiful-union\/?utm_source=substack&amp;utm_medium=email\" data-wpel-link=\"external\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"external noopener noreferrer\">The Upside-Down Metaphor: A Hermeneutical Critique of Josh Butler\u2019s Beautiful Union<\/a> <\/p>\n<p>Anne Kennedy reviews Josh Butler\u2019s now-infamous book. \u201cIn his provocative book, <em>Beautiful Union: How God\u2019s Vision for Sex Points Us to the Good, Unlocks the True, and (Sort of) Explains Everything<\/em>,1 Josh Butler articulates a theological picture of God\u2019s union with humanity in Christ that is sexual, rather than sacramental in nature. Butler makes exegetical and categorical errors that lead him to at least two theologically problematic conclusions.\u201d<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/ealinglevy.wordpress.com\/2023\/06\/07\/the-aim-of-satan-ministers-letter-june-23\/\" data-wpel-link=\"external\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"external noopener noreferrer\">The Aim of Satan<\/a> <\/p>\n<p>What does Satan aim at in his engagements with us? This article explains.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.heritagebooks.org\/products\/leading-from-the-foundation-up-cook-parker.html\" data-wpel-link=\"external\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"external noopener noreferrer\">How Can Leaders Become Difference Makers?<\/a> <\/p>\n<p>\u201cHealthy, courageous leaders are humble, fearful followers.\u201d \u2014David M. Cook and Shane W. Parker (Sponsored Link)<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/shanerose.substack.com\/p\/water-into-wine\" data-wpel-link=\"external\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"external noopener noreferrer\">Water into Wine?<\/a> <\/p>\n<p>Shane Rosenthal: \u201cThe account of Jesus turning water into wine at the wedding of Cana is a well-known story from the Gospel of John. When commenting<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Good morning from Brazil. I\u2019m in S\u00e3o Paulo this morning and making my way to Recife this afternoon. We will soon begin filming yet another episode of Worship Round the World. Today\u2019s Kindle deals include a couple of good options. (Yesterday on the blog: Your Loved Ones Love You Still) The Upside-Down Metaphor: A Hermeneutical Critique of Josh Butler\u2019s Beautiful Union Anne Kennedy reviews Josh Butler\u2019s now-infamous book. \u201cIn his provocative book, Beautiful Union: How God\u2019s Vision for Sex Points \u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19,"featured_media":61709,"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-61701","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\/06\/A20La20Carte20-20concepts202-THURS20b_0-2-1.jpg?fit=910%2C320&ssl=1","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61701","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=61701"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61701\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":61711,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61701\/revisions\/61711"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/61709"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=61701"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=61701"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=61701"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}