{"id":69229,"date":"2023-12-27T23:01:00","date_gmt":"2023-12-28T05:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/?p=69229"},"modified":"2023-12-27T23:57:31","modified_gmt":"2023-12-28T05:57:31","slug":"a-la-carte-december-28-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/?p=69229","title":{"rendered":"A La Carte (December 28)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The God of love and peace be with you today.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Westminster Books has announced a <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.wtsbooks.com\/blogs\/2023-enews\/word-spirit-podcast?utm_source=challies&amp;utm_medium=challies\" rel=\"noopener\">new book and podcast<\/a> that may be of interest to many.<\/p>\n<p> <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.biblicalcounselingcoalition.org\/2023\/12\/27\/93684\/\" rel=\"noopener\">Death: A Wasp Without a Stinger<\/a> <\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;Bees are like death. People may not fear bees like I do, but Scripture tells us that everyone is held captive by their fear of being stung by death.&#8221; Dan Brewer has a meaningful reflection on grief here. (He quotes me, which is always a bit odd to link to, but anyway&#8230;)<\/p>\n<p> <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.beautifulchristianlife.com\/blog\/should-christians-drink-alcohol\" rel=\"noopener\">Should Christians Drink Alcohol?<\/a> <\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I have read a good many answers to this question over the years and am often disappointed in them. But I found this article by Le Ann Trees very solid.<\/p>\n<p> <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.growingfathers.com\/leading-your-family-out-of-the-post-holiday-blues\/\" rel=\"noopener\">Leading Your Family Out of the Post-Holiday Blues<\/a> <\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Chris Lynch says that the post-holiday blues are a thing\u2014and that they bring opportunity. &#8220;As dads, we have a golden opportunity amidst these gloomy days to direct our families to reasons for joy and anticipation. Indeed, it\u2019s more than an opportunity; it\u2019s a responsibility.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p> <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.epm.org\/blog\/2023\/Dec\/27\/everything-going-wrong-world-g-campbell-morgan-rem\" rel=\"noopener\">Everything Is Going Wrong in the World?<\/a> <\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Sometimes it feels like everything is going wrong in the world. But is it? Randy Alcorn channels a little G. Campbell Morgan<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A La Carte: Should Christians drink alcohol? \/ Is everything going wrong in the world? \/ leading your family out of the post-holiday blues \/ A wasp without a stinger \/ How to cultivate and develop student leaders \/ and more.See AlsoA La Carte (August 17)A La Carte (July 10)A La Carte (April 6)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19,"featured_media":69246,"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-69229","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\/12\/cover-a-la-carte-thu-b-3-1.jpg?fit=1920%2C1219&ssl=1","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69229","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=69229"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69229\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":69248,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69229\/revisions\/69248"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/69246"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=69229"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=69229"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=69229"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}