{"id":70198,"date":"2024-01-15T23:01:00","date_gmt":"2024-01-16T05:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/?p=70198"},"modified":"2024-01-16T00:16:02","modified_gmt":"2024-01-16T06:16:02","slug":"a-la-carte-january-16-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/?p=70198","title":{"rendered":"A La Carte (January 16)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Good morning. Grace and peace to you.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>(Yesterday on the blog: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.challies.com\/articles\/life-without-romans-828\/\">Life Without Romans 8:28<\/a>)<\/em><\/p>\n<p> <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.desiringgod.org\/interviews\/on-coffee-sipping-in-the-sanctuary\" rel=\"noopener\">On Coffee-Sipping in the Sanctuary<\/a> <\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I guess John Piper recently caused a bit of a brouhaha when he tweeted about sipping coffee in the church sanctuary. Here he explains what he meant and why he sees coffee as a relatively inconsequential symptom of something bigger. &#8220;Let me try to get right to the heart of the matter. The heart of the matter is not coffee in the sanctuary. That\u2019s only a symptom, and there are lots of other symptoms of what I\u2019m concerned about.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p> <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/yourmomhasablog.com\/2024\/01\/14\/aging-peacefully\/?utm_source=rss&amp;utm_medium=rss&amp;utm_campaign=aging-peacefully\" rel=\"noopener\">Aging Peacefully<\/a> <\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I think a lot of people will identify with Melissa&#8217;s thoughts about aging peacefully. &#8220;Here, in the middle of a department store, my eyes filled with tears, and I was embarrassed. Embarrassed that I cared so much that I\u2019m never going to wear a dress like that again in my life. I was embarrassed that I haven\u2019t transcended these ideas of what it is to be a woman, that I haven\u2019t devoted more of my mind and my heart to purely spiritual endeavors instead of physical ones.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p> <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/how-evangelical-are-iowas-evangelicals-real-definition-trump-voter-africa-asia-americas-1688d348?st=fdtrqejgofkxb1m&amp;reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink\" rel=\"noopener\">How \u2018Evangelical\u2019 Are Iowa\u2019s Evangelicals?<\/a> <\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I&#8217;m glad Thomas Kidd asks and<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A La Carte: John Piper on coffee-sipping in the sanctuary \/ Aging peacefully \/ How &#8220;evangelical&#8221; are Iowa&#8217;s evangelicals? \/ The danger of rejecting a good conscience \/ Is our view of Satan too small? \/ Show up for what God has for you \/ and more.<br \/>\nSee AlsoA La Carte (October 16)A La Carte (January 11)A La Carte (5\/29)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19,"featured_media":70215,"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-70198","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\/2024\/01\/cover-a-la-carte-tue-b-1-1.jpg?fit=1920%2C1219&ssl=1","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70198","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=70198"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70198\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":70217,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70198\/revisions\/70217"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/70215"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=70198"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=70198"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=70198"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}