{"id":73556,"date":"2024-03-17T23:01:00","date_gmt":"2024-03-18T04:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/?p=73556"},"modified":"2024-03-17T23:45:15","modified_gmt":"2024-03-18T04:45:15","slug":"a-la-carte-march-18-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/?p=73556","title":{"rendered":"A La Carte (March 18)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Good morning. Grace and peace to you.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Today&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.challies.com\/kindle-deals-for-christians\/\">Kindle deals<\/a> include some choice titles from Crossway.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>(Yesterday on the blog: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.challies.com\/articles\/god-takes-us-into-his-confidence\/\">God Takes Us Into His Confidence<\/a>)<\/em><\/p>\n<p> <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.thegospelcoalition.org\/article\/god-good-pain\/\" rel=\"noopener\">God Is Good and Does Good\u2014Even in Our Pain<\/a> <\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Garrett Kell: &#8220;We don\u2019t often question God\u2019s goodness in days of ease. We easily see his benevolence when the sun shines and flowers bloom. But when wintry woes blow in, God\u2019s goodness seems extinct. Dark clouds turn everything to gray. Cold winds of affliction bite and sting us. Our souls become numb in ways that tempt us to give up and withdraw from everyone, including God. The good news is that even when we doubt, our God holds us fast.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p> <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/gentlereformation.com\/2024\/03\/16\/dear-bride-and-groom-a-look-to-grace-for-newlyweds\/\" rel=\"noopener\">Dear Bride and Groom: A Look to Grace for Newlyweds<\/a> <\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Vanessa Le offers some challenging and encouraging words to newlyweds (and not-so-newlyweds).<\/p>\n<p> <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.desiringgod.org\/articles\/sin-wont-comfort-you\" rel=\"noopener\">Sin Won\u2019t Comfort You: How Satan Tempts the Hurting<\/a> <\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Marshall Segal considers that &#8220;Satan knows how prone we can be to turn to sin in our suffering \u2014 and he preys on that weakness.&#8221; He does not fight fair!<\/p>\n<p> <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.marliscarborough.com\/blog\/worthy-of-the-gospel\" rel=\"noopener\">Worthy of the Gospel<\/a> <\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Bible tells us to be &#8220;worthy of the gospel.&#8221; But what does this mean and is it really possible?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A La Carte: God is good and does good\u2014even in our pain \/ Dear bride and groom \/ Sin won&#8217;t comfort you \/ Worthy of the gospel \/ From self-sufficiency to trusting God&#8217;s people \/ The gods fight for our devotion \/ and more.See AlsoA La Carte (January 6)A La Carte (7\/14)A La Carte<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19,"featured_media":73572,"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-73556","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\/03\/cover-a-la-carte-mon-a-3-1.jpg?fit=1920%2C1219&ssl=1","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73556","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=73556"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73556\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":73574,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73556\/revisions\/73574"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/73572"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=73556"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=73556"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=73556"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}