{"id":76731,"date":"2024-05-19T23:01:00","date_gmt":"2024-05-20T04:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/?p=76731"},"modified":"2024-05-19T23:25:52","modified_gmt":"2024-05-20T04:25:52","slug":"a-la-carte-may-20-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/?p=76731","title":{"rendered":"A La Carte (May 20)"},"content":{"rendered":"
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I very much enjoyed a week off with my family. And now, back to work and back to normal blogging. (Kind of back to normal\u2014I’m also heading to Albania this week to speak at an event there.)<\/p>\n

Today’s Kindle deals<\/a> include four different titles by John Piper.<\/p>\n

(Yesterday on the blog: One Measure of Greatness<\/a>)<\/em><\/p>\n

What Media Got Wrong About Supposed Christian Self-Immolation<\/a> <\/p>\n

“Late in February, an active-duty US Air Force airman\u00a0set fire to himself\u00a0outside of Israel\u2019s embassy in Washington, DC; afterwards, some journalists rushed to try and provide historical context for the practice of ‘self-immolation.’” Noah Diekemper just how badly they did in trying to show how this is somehow a Christian practice.<\/p>\n

We Are Walking on Holy Ground<\/a> <\/p>\n

“It\u2019s so sweet to walk into a church and know that God\u2019s people are gathered for worship. Of course He is near. A holy moment. But isn\u2019t it a holy moment, too, when you are sitting in a doctor\u2019s office, holding hands with your faithful wife, enduring the bad news with faith? As believers we tread on holy ground in every school building, nursing home, leafy forest<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A La Carte: What media got wrong about supposed Christian self-immolation \/ We are walking on holy ground \/ “His Glory and My Good” \/ How pop Nietzscheanism masquerades as Christianity \/ Why a full calendar doesn’t necessarily produce mature church members \/ Thinking biblically about social justice \/ John Piper Kindle deals \/ and more.See AlsoA La Carte (May 13)A La Carte (June 24)Weekend A La Carte (6\/4)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19,"featured_media":76748,"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-76731","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\/05\/cover-a-la-carte-mon-a-5-1.jpg?fit=1920%2C1219&ssl=1","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76731","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=76731"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76731\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":76750,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76731\/revisions\/76750"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/76748"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=76731"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=76731"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=76731"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}