{"id":75764,"date":"2024-04-29T23:01:00","date_gmt":"2024-04-30T04:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/?p=75764"},"modified":"2024-04-29T23:12:30","modified_gmt":"2024-04-30T04:12:30","slug":"a-la-carte-april-30-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/?p=75764","title":{"rendered":"A La Carte (April 30)"},"content":{"rendered":"<div data-beyondwords-player=\"true\" contenteditable=\"false\">\n<p data-beyondwords-marker=\"6eee9450-efe5-47bb-85c1-e2f0153a783b\" class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Good morning. Grace and peace to you.<\/p>\n<p data-beyondwords-marker=\"bc38721a-b044-4ee7-924a-581ecdacda71\" class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Today&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.challies.com\/kindle-deals-for-christians\/\">Kindle deals<\/a> include a couple of new titles and a reminder that this is the last day for all the titles that were discounted through April (which I bumped back to the top of the list).<\/p>\n<p data-beyondwords-marker=\"0fa162ba-99e6-441b-9803-bb1b0f2eecb8\" class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>(Yesterday on the blog: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.challies.com\/articles\/the-great-man-and-the-local-church\/\">The Great Man and the Local Church<\/a>)<\/em><\/p>\n<p> <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ornitheology.com\/post\/warblers-art-from-a-prodigal-god\" rel=\"noopener\">Warblers and the Question of Gratuitous Beauty<\/a> <\/p>\n<p data-beyondwords-marker=\"cbbe31dc-c43c-4868-a27b-f554eb4dd649\" class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This is a wonderful reflection on the gratuitous (or surplus) beauty in the world. &#8220;A feather, all by itself, should be enough to convince you of intelligent design. But arrange four thousand of them together around the small frame of a songbird, and any sane heart must surrender to this discovery: the design isn\u2019t just intelligent. It&#8217;s beautiful.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p> <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.desiringgod.org\/interviews\/are-parents-to-blame-for-prodigals\" rel=\"noopener\">Are Parents to Blame for Prodigals?<\/a> <\/p>\n<p data-beyondwords-marker=\"6d7a15ee-0535-45de-8a11-0b95f41fd3f1\" class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This is a question that is usually asked with a lot of pain: Are parents to blame for prodigals? John Piper answers it compassionately and biblically.<\/p>\n<p> <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.challies.com\/a-la-carte\/a-la-carte-april-30-2024\/\" rel=\"noopener\">Majoring on Motherhood<\/a> <\/p>\n<p data-beyondwords-marker=\"84bc5c3f-a6fc-440e-b4ea-51eb00b56f29\" class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>Majoring in Motherhood<\/em>, a new book for moms of little ones, is just in time for Mother\u2019s Day. Emily Schuch, a Christian mom of six, has given us a delightful,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A La Carte: Warblers and the question of gratuitous beauty \/ Are parents to blame for prodigals? \/ The freebie round-up \/ Scripts for healthy masculinity \/ 5 traits of great spiritual leaders \/ Why daily bread is better \/ and more.See AlsoWeekend A La Carte (April 19)A La Carte (April 19)A La Carte (April 10)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19,"featured_media":75780,"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-75764","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-tue-a-7-1.jpg?fit=1920%2C1219&ssl=1","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75764","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=75764"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75764\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":75782,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75764\/revisions\/75782"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/75780"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=75764"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=75764"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=75764"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}