Just a reminder that this week I am featuring A La Carte only. The usual slate of original articles will return next week as the holiday season wraps up.<\/p>\n
(Yesterday on the blog: How I\u2019ll Be Reading the Bible in 2024<\/a>)<\/em><\/p>\n Let Us Resolve This . . . A Few Thoughts About Personal Resolutions<\/a> <\/p>\n This is quite a long article about new year’s resolutions and other kinds of resolutions. “As Christians, such a miserable ratio of success to failure should cause us to examine the whole concept of the new year\u2019s resolution from a biblical perspective.”<\/p>\n Plan to Grow<\/a> <\/p>\n Jacob thinks back to his growth as a Christian and concludes, “I\u2019ve learned that if I don\u2019t plan to grow, I\u2019ll be less like Jesus than I could be.”<\/p>\n Free eBook: How to Build an Effective Missions Program<\/a> <\/p>\n When discussing the specifics of church missions programs, it is critical to begin by understanding the motivation behind missions. Properly understanding \u201cGod\u2019s Mission\u201d will result in a more deeply rooted mission program and, ultimately, a more effective gospel witness. So, today, The Master\u2019s Academy International (TMAI) is offering How to Build an<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" A La Carte: A few thoughts about personal resolutions \/ Pope Francis, LGBTQ, and semi-pelagianism \/ How your year turned out \/ Plan to grow \/ What were Mary and Joseph doing after Jesus was born? \/ and more.See AlsoA La Carte (July 19)A La Carte (January 3)A La Carte (1\/2)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19,"featured_media":69279,"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-69262","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-fri-a-3-1.jpg?fit=1920%2C1219&ssl=1","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69262","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=69262"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69262\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":69281,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69262\/revisions\/69281"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/69279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=69262"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=69262"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=69262"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}