{"id":7142,"date":"2019-11-14T05:06:06","date_gmt":"2019-11-14T11:06:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/?p=7142"},"modified":"2019-11-14T05:27:43","modified_gmt":"2019-11-14T11:27:43","slug":"a-la-carte-november-14","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/?p=7142","title":{"rendered":"A La Carte (November 14)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Today&rsquo;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.challies.com\/kindle-deals-for-christians\" data-wpel-link=\"internal\">Kindle deals<\/a> include rather an eclectic list of books.<\/p>\n<p><em>(Yesterday on the blog: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.challies.com\/personal-reflections\/updates-on-life-health-travels-and-family\/\" rel=\"bookmark\" data-wpel-link=\"internal\">Updates on Life, Health, Travels, and Family<\/a>)<\/em><\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"http:\/\/kiwimadepreaching.com\/2019\/11\/preaching-holiness-without-bashing-heads-andrew-lim\/\" data-wpel-link=\"external\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"external noopener noreferrer\">Preaching Holiness Without Bashing Heads<\/a> <\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;In preaching a biblical virtue like holiness, preachers can easily give the idea that we must all strive for it through sheer grit. People who are already burdened with moralistic tendencies invariably tie those virtues to an angry, transcendentally holy and demanding God, and unwittingly, we will jump through one hoop after another to try to please God.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"http:\/\/yourmomhasablog.com\/2019\/11\/13\/hospitality-is-not-homebound\/\" data-wpel-link=\"external\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"external noopener noreferrer\">Hospitality is Not Homebound<\/a> <\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;That&rsquo;s a good thing. I agree&ndash;we should welcome others into our homes when we can. But, I also want to send a clear message to women like me, women who are rarely home, whose kids are in fifteen different activities after school, whose family generally eats at different times in different cars in different cities because that&rsquo;s just the phase of life that we&rsquo;re in: hospitality can happen literally anywhere.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=v8RVob4yzxs&amp;feature=share\" data-wpel-link=\"external\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"external noopener noreferrer\">What Happened to the Hummer? (Video)<\/a> <\/p>\n<p>The Hummer was a strange and short-lived phenomenon, wasn&rsquo;t it?<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.timothypauljones.com\/apologetics-were-the-gospels-meant-to-be-taken-as-historical-testimony\/\" data-wpel-link=\"external\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"external noopener noreferrer\">Were the Gospels Meant to Be Taken as Historical Testimony?<\/a> <\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;How do we know if the testimonies preserved about Jesus in the New Testament<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today\u2019s Kindle deals include rather an eclectic list of books. (Yesterday on the blog: Updates on Life, Health, Travels, and Family) Preaching Holiness Without Bashing Heads \u201cIn preaching a biblical virtue like holiness, preachers can easily give the idea that we must all strive for it through sheer grit. People who are already burdened with moralistic tendencies invariably tie those virtues to an angry, transcendentally holy and demanding God, and unwittingly, we will jump through one hoop after another to \u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19,"featured_media":7150,"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-7142","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\/2019\/11\/A20La20Carte20-20concepts202-THURS20b_0-2-1.jpg?fit=910%2C320&ssl=1","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7142","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=7142"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7142\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7152,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7142\/revisions\/7152"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/7150"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7142"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7142"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7142"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}