{"id":75426,"date":"2024-04-23T23:01:00","date_gmt":"2024-04-24T04:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/?p=75426"},"modified":"2024-04-23T23:12:38","modified_gmt":"2024-04-24T04:12:38","slug":"a-la-carte-april-24-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/?p=75426","title":{"rendered":"A La Carte (April 24)"},"content":{"rendered":"<div data-beyondwords-player=\"true\" contenteditable=\"false\">\n<p data-beyondwords-marker=\"91116ad1-d71b-4dd2-8547-9f48182e92b2\" class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The God of peace be with you, my friends.<\/p>\n<p data-beyondwords-marker=\"643feb75-6be2-4013-a526-de5eef52e726\" class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Westminster Books is offering $20 off a <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.wtsbooks.com\/blogs\/2024-enews\/reformed-covenant-theology?utm_source=challies&amp;utm_medium=challies\" rel=\"noopener\">new book<\/a> meant to help you better understand Covenant Theology.<\/p>\n<p> <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/biblestudynerd.home.blog\/2024\/04\/23\/want-to-grow-in-hospitality-start-with-your-inner-circle\/\" rel=\"noopener\">Want to Grow in Hospitality? Start with Your Inner Circle<\/a> <\/p>\n<p data-beyondwords-marker=\"aee509c9-0f9f-45a4-8857-90cb9a245508\" class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;I\u2019ve always thought of hospitality as opening my home to outsiders. And, of course, hospitality is not less than that . But as I\u2019ve pondered this topic over the past few weeks, it has occurred to me that I I need to start my journey of hospitality with the people who make up my innermost circle. Hospitality to outsiders will be both hollow and shallow if I don\u2019t practice it with my own family first.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p> <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.crossway.org\/articles\/what-happens-when-the-governing-authorities-are-the-wrongdoers\/\" rel=\"noopener\">What Happens When the Governing Authorities Are the Wrongdoers?<\/a> <\/p>\n<p data-beyondwords-marker=\"d002ca7f-524c-4656-bac9-d3d77d307b57\" class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This is a very good question: What happens when the governing authorities are the ones who have done wrong? &#8220;The best available estimate is that 57 percent of wrongful convictions involved some type of government misconduct. Those 1,927 cases involving misconduct resulted in incarceration of men and women for a combined 19,976 years. In biblical terms, the sword of the state was wielded\u00a0<em>by wrongdoers<\/em>\u00a0against the innocent.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p> <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.thegospelcoalition.org\/article\/transgender-meds-kids\/\" rel=\"noopener\">Transgender Meds for<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A La Carte: Growing in hospitality \/ What happens when the governing authorities are the wrongdoers? \/ Transgender meds for kids? \/ 100 facets to the diamond of Christ \/ Spiritual mothers point us to Christ \/ and more.See AlsoA La Carte (September 29)A La Carte (June 6)A La Carte (January 25)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19,"featured_media":75442,"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-75426","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\/04\/cover-a-la-carte-wed-b-5-1.jpg?fit=1920%2C1219&ssl=1","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75426","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=75426"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75426\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":75444,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75426\/revisions\/75444"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/75442"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=75426"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=75426"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=75426"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}