{"id":70450,"date":"2024-01-21T23:01:00","date_gmt":"2024-01-22T05:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/?p=70450"},"modified":"2024-01-21T23:40:02","modified_gmt":"2024-01-22T05:40:02","slug":"a-la-carte-january-22-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/?p=70450","title":{"rendered":"A La Carte (January 22)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Good morning. The Lord be with you and bless you today.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Today&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.challies.com\/kindle-deals-for-christians\/\">Kindle deals<\/a> include a few titles related to friendship.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>(Yesterday on the blog: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.challies.com\/quotes\/when-fruit-does-not-spring-up\/\">When Fruit Does Not Spring Up<\/a>)<\/em><\/p>\n<p> <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/briannalambert.com\/dancing-in-an-empty-theater\/\" rel=\"noopener\">Dancing in an Empty Theater<\/a> <\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This is a strong article from Brianna Lambert. &#8220;The dirt trail curved through the tall grass in front of us. My husband and three kids scampered ahead towards the entrance of the canopy of trees. As I padded behind them, my eyes caught a streak of red amidst the stalks of green off the trail. Poking up between the grass, two beautiful red flowers flashed their petals in the August sun.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p> <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/kevincarson.com\/2024\/01\/19\/do-you-assume-motives\/\" rel=\"noopener\">Do You Assume Motives?<\/a> <\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Kevin asks a really important question here: Do you assume motives? &#8220;In recent days, it seems as if several conversations have come down to the issue of assuming motives. Possibly you have been on one side of this or the other, where in a particular situation, one person guesses the other person\u2019s motives. Often this leaves one or both parties frustrated, especially if the motive guessed is the furthest motive from reality.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p> <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.thebeehive.live\/blog\/betterpastorforyou\" rel=\"noopener\">Why I\u2019m a Better Pastor (For You) Than\u2026<\/a> <\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">John Beeson explains why he&#8217;s a better pastor<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A La Carte: Dancing in an empty theater \/ Do you assume motives? \/ Why I&#8217;m a better pastor for you than\u2026 \/ Consider your attitude to the local church \/ Orthodoxy is a friend of the young \/ Lord&#8217;s Supper is not a pot luck \/ Kindle deals \/ and more.See AlsoA La Carte (June 7)A La Carte (June 27)Weekend A La Carte (October 25)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19,"featured_media":70467,"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-70450","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-mon-b-3-1.jpg?fit=1920%2C1219&ssl=1","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70450","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=70450"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70450\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":70469,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70450\/revisions\/70469"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/70467"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=70450"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=70450"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=70450"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}