{"id":64224,"date":"2023-08-18T23:01:54","date_gmt":"2023-08-19T04:01:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/?p=64224"},"modified":"2023-08-18T23:39:12","modified_gmt":"2023-08-19T04:39:12","slug":"weekend-a-la-carte-august-19","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/?p=64224","title":{"rendered":"Weekend A La Carte (August 19)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I\u2019m so grateful to BJU for sponsoring the blog this week to tell you how to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.challies.com\/sponsored\/hate-more-and-kill-better\/\" data-wpel-link=\"internal\">Hate More and Kill Better<\/a>. Sponsors play a key role in allowing this site to carry on.<\/p>\n<p><em>(Yesterday on the blog: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.challies.com\/book-reviews\/facing-the-last-enemy\/\" rel=\"bookmark\" data-wpel-link=\"internal\">Facing the Last Enemy<\/a>)<\/em><\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ilfordipc.co.uk\/putting-down-roots-a-call-to-young-people\/?utm_source=rss&amp;utm_medium=rss&amp;utm_campaign=putting-down-roots-a-call-to-young-people\" data-wpel-link=\"external\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"external noopener noreferrer\">Putting down roots: a call to young people<\/a> <\/p>\n<p>Here\u2019s a timely call to young people to consider really trying to put down roots in a local church.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thegospelcoalition.org\/blogs\/erik-raymond\/every-nightmare-starts-as-a-dream\/\" data-wpel-link=\"external\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"external noopener noreferrer\">Every Nightmare Starts As A Dream<\/a> <\/p>\n<p>\u201cOver the last couple of decades of ministry, I\u2019ve listened to people utter words like these as they suffer from the fresh and painful wounds of self-inflicted sin. Building a fulfilling life takes a million tiny decisions, but only one bad choice can wreck it.\u201d Erik reflects on the way every nightmare begins as a dream.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.evangelicalmagazine.com\/article\/o-lord-let-our-community-flourish\/\" data-wpel-link=\"external\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"external noopener noreferrer\">\u2018O Lord, Let Our Community Flourish\u2019<\/a> <\/p>\n<p>\u201cI once heard Martyn Lloyd-Jones say that \u2018the greatest enemy of the Christian faith has always been the Christian church.\u2019 I was a little taken aback, but a few moments thought was enough to feel that he had a point.\u201d<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/women.pcacdm.org\/for-the-mom-dropping-her-student-off-at-college\/\" data-wpel-link=\"external\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"external noopener noreferrer\">For the Mom Dropping Her Student Off at College<\/a> <\/p>\n<p>This is a couple of weeks too late for us, but still<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I\u2019m so grateful to BJU for sponsoring the blog this week to tell you how to Hate More and Kill Better. Sponsors play a key role in allowing this site to carry on. (Yesterday on the blog: Facing the Last Enemy) Putting down roots: a call to young people Here\u2019s a timely call to young people to consider really trying to put down roots in a local church. Every Nightmare Starts As A Dream \u201cOver the last couple of decades \u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19,"featured_media":64232,"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-64224","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\/08\/A20La20Carte20-20concepts202-WEEKEND20b-1.jpg?fit=910%2C320&ssl=1","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64224","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=64224"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64224\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":64234,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64224\/revisions\/64234"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/64232"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=64224"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=64224"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=64224"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}