{"id":72628,"date":"2024-02-27T23:01:00","date_gmt":"2024-02-28T05:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/?p=72628"},"modified":"2024-02-27T23:53:48","modified_gmt":"2024-02-28T05:53:48","slug":"a-la-carte-february-28-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/?p=72628","title":{"rendered":"A La Carte (February 28)"},"content":{"rendered":"<div data-beyondwords-player=\"true\" contenteditable=\"false\">\n<p data-beyondwords-marker=\"832418d1-ff4b-4580-ba04-6ab337be7089\" class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Good morning. May the Lord be with you and bless you today.<\/p>\n<p data-beyondwords-marker=\"55c3f934-118a-4821-8790-aa6b91d11cb9\" class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.challies.com\/kindle-deals-for-christians\/\">Kindle deals<\/a> continue today!<\/p>\n<p data-beyondwords-marker=\"a776f81a-eb56-4310-bf17-2b118ec24531\" class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Westminster Books is offering deals on <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.wtsbooks.com\/blogs\/2024-enews\/my-first-abc-book-of-bible-verses?utm_source=challies&amp;utm_medium=challies\" rel=\"noopener\">children&#8217;s books<\/a> this week, including a sweet new one from Jonathan Gibson.<\/p>\n<p> <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.gospelrelevance.com\/2024\/02\/27\/can-christians-buy-expensive-things\/\" rel=\"noopener\">Can Christians Buy Expensive Things?<\/a> <\/p>\n<p data-beyondwords-marker=\"a738cd40-4c87-4503-ae5f-ce3a6e99ab7c\" class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Probably all of us have wondered this at one time or another, whether to justify our own purchases or to pass condemnation on someone else&#8217;s.<\/p>\n<p> <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.christianitytoday.com\/ct\/2024\/march\/evangelical-catholic-conflict-europe.html\" rel=\"noopener\">Is the Pope Catholic? Then These Christians Say Don\u2019t Pray with Him.<\/a> <\/p>\n<p data-beyondwords-marker=\"0d7939c6-c152-461c-8b06-661c0496b722\" class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I admire pastor Leonardo De Chirico and appreciate the stand he is taking in Rome. (You may need to have a free account at CT to read this one.)<\/p>\n<p> <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/matthewwesterholm.substack.com\/p\/the-biggest-problem-in-worship-education\" rel=\"noopener\">The Biggest Problem in Worship Education<\/a> <\/p>\n<p data-beyondwords-marker=\"7011835b-1dbe-4772-b439-0933c5f798c0\" class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I found this a really interesting one from Matthew Westerholm. He discusses how worship education (and, specifically, training people to lead worship in churches) has changed over the years.<\/p>\n<p> <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dashhouse.com\/big-dreams-impress-ordinary-faithfulness-delivers\/\" rel=\"noopener\">Big Dreams Impress. Ordinary Faithfulness Delivers.<\/a> <\/p>\n<p data-beyondwords-marker=\"230474ca-92d5-466e-9479-c7c26e9de9e0\" class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;Show me a big dream if you\u2019d like, but what really impresses me is the ordinary faithfulness of hidden saints.&#8221; Amen!<\/p>\n<p> <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/aaronarmstrong.co\/our-limits-are-a-gift-from-god\/\" rel=\"noopener\">Our Limits Are a Gift From God<\/a> <\/p>\n<p data-beyondwords-marker=\"955caf48-f273-42e0-b4a7-7c5ad4754a92\" class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;I admire people who know how<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A La Carte: Can Christians buy expensive things? \/ You are probably WEIRDER than you think \/ Our limits are a gift from God \/ Big dreams impress. Ordinary faithfulness delivers \/ The biggest problem in worship education \/ Children&#8217;s books \/ and more.See AlsoWeekend A La Carte (November 26)Weekend A La Carte (November 30)A La Carte (12\/15)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19,"featured_media":72634,"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-72628","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\/02\/cover-a-la-carte-wed-b-2.jpg?fit=1920%2C1219&ssl=1","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72628","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=72628"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72628\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":72636,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72628\/revisions\/72636"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/72634"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=72628"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=72628"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=72628"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}