{"id":61753,"date":"2023-06-10T00:00:41","date_gmt":"2023-06-10T05:00:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/?p=61753"},"modified":"2023-06-10T00:26:09","modified_gmt":"2023-06-10T05:26:09","slug":"weekend-a-la-carte-june-10","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/?p=61753","title":{"rendered":"Weekend A La Carte (June 10)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Good morning. May gratitude goes to Zondervan for sponsoring the blog this week to tell you about an <a href=\"https:\/\/fbcjax.com\/heathlambert\/?utm_source=Challies&amp;utm_medium=web&amp;utm_content=sidebarad&amp;utm_campaign=GreatLoveOfGod\" data-wpel-link=\"external\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"external noopener noreferrer\">excellent new book<\/a> about God\u2019s love for us.<\/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 books that are newer and some that are older.<\/p>\n<p><em>(Yesterday on the blog: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.challies.com\/book-reviews\/can-you-live-a-life-thats-worthy-of-the-gospel\/\" rel=\"bookmark\" data-wpel-link=\"internal\">Can You Live a Life that\u2019s Worthy of the Gospel?<\/a>)<\/em><\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thegospelcoalition.org\/blogs\/evangelical-history\/confessions-of-faith-and-the-baptist-tradition\/\" data-wpel-link=\"external\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"external noopener noreferrer\">Confessions of Faith and the Baptist Tradition<\/a> <\/p>\n<p>\u201dOne of the most-cited arguments against Baptists standards of doctrine and practice is that Baptists have historically opposed confessions of faith. This anti-confessional argument has been used by certain Baptist leaders over the centuries, but it is a false argument.\u201d As it happens, Rick Warren is making a variation of it now.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ligonier.org\/learn\/articles\/field-guide-on-false-teaching-jehovahs-witnesses?utm_source=feedblitz&amp;utm_medium=FeedBlitzRss&amp;utm_campaign=articles-and-posts\" data-wpel-link=\"external\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"external noopener noreferrer\">Who Are the Jehovah\u2019s Witnesses?<\/a> <\/p>\n<p>Ligonier Ministries provides a brief explanation of the Jehovah\u2019s Witnesses\u2014their history, key beliefs, and so on.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jeremyhoward.net\/2023\/06\/disappointment-as-opportunity.html\" data-wpel-link=\"external\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"external noopener noreferrer\">Disappointment as Opportunity<\/a> <\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe know well the saying that life is full of disappointments, and the longer we live, the truer it rings. As fallen humans with largely unreasonable expectations for ourselves and others, we bump into disappointment often. \u2018Man makes his plans and the Lord laughs,\u2019 someone has said, and I&#8217;m inclined to believe him.\u201d<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/ca.thegospelcoalition.org\/columns\/straight-paths\/when-winsome-doesnt-work\/\" data-wpel-link=\"external\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"external noopener noreferrer\">When Winsome Doesn\u2019t Work<\/a> <\/p>\n<p>\u201cChristians had better<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Good morning. May gratitude goes to Zondervan for sponsoring the blog this week to tell you about an excellent new book about God\u2019s love for us. Today\u2019s Kindle deals include some books that are newer and some that are older. (Yesterday on the blog: Can You Live a Life that\u2019s Worthy of the Gospel?) Confessions of Faith and the Baptist Tradition \u201dOne of the most-cited arguments against Baptists standards of doctrine and practice is that Baptists have historically opposed confessions \u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19,"featured_media":61761,"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-61753","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-WEEKEND20b_1-1.jpg?fit=910%2C320&ssl=1","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61753","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=61753"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61753\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":61763,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61753\/revisions\/61763"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/61761"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=61753"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=61753"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=61753"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}