{"id":76945,"date":"2024-05-23T23:01:00","date_gmt":"2024-05-24T04:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/?p=76945"},"modified":"2024-05-23T23:57:28","modified_gmt":"2024-05-24T04:57:28","slug":"a-la-carte-may-24-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/?p=76945","title":{"rendered":"A La Carte (May 24)"},"content":{"rendered":"<div data-beyondwords-player=\"true\" contenteditable=\"false\">\n<p data-beyondwords-marker=\"0da5bc6d-0ce9-4127-be2a-795f81ab8fd2\" class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Good morning from beautiful Albania. I am here to speak at an event for pastors (today and tomorrow) and to participate in a joint worship service (on Sunday). I am very much looking forward to it!<\/p>\n<p data-beyondwords-marker=\"bd61202f-e960-45b7-a47f-6b8659715ea6\" class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Westminster Books is offering a free <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.wtsbooks.com\/blogs\/2024-enews\/pastor-as-leader-micro-course?utm_source=challies&amp;utm_medium=challies\" rel=\"noopener\">micro course<\/a> for pastors. It&#8217;s worth a look!<\/p>\n<p> <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/mereorthodoxy.com\/to-sit-in-the-threat-of-loss\" rel=\"noopener\">To Sit in the Threat of Loss<\/a> <\/p>\n<p data-beyondwords-marker=\"b7a5c296-5e24-4515-b73a-2e7fe77e0a2d\" class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;There is a sanctifying characteristic of foreseen grief. It is that way in which even the threat of loss discolours everything; the way in which foreseen grief seems to threaten not just a joy, but all joys, to undermine not just one aspect of life but the ground on which life is set.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p> <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.thegospelcoalition.org\/blogs\/trevin-wax\/world-cannot-gender-blind\/\" rel=\"noopener\">The World Cannot Be Gender Blind<\/a> <\/p>\n<p data-beyondwords-marker=\"596a7319-2d1f-4af7-bf47-4a2a0f11e721\" class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Trevin Wax: &#8220;One of the strange ironies of our times: a significant segment of the left pushes back forcefully against the idea of &#8216;color blindness&#8217; regarding race but demands what amounts to &#8216;gender blindness&#8217; regarding sex. We\u2019re supposed to assume racial distinctions are inevitable and enduring in most, if not all, interactions in society, while in debates over marriage, relationships, sports, bathrooms, or medicine, justice demands we ignore or minimize the real and<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A La Carte: To sit in the threat of loss \/ The world cannot be gender blind \/ The missing years \/ Too much times \/ Finding freedom in God&#8217;s providence \/ The weighted vest of pastoral ministry \/ A micro course for pastors \/ and more.See AlsoA La Carte (May 20)A La Carte (May 17)A La Carte (May 15)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19,"featured_media":76961,"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-76945","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-fri-a-5-1.jpg?fit=1920%2C1219&ssl=1","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76945","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=76945"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76945\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":76963,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76945\/revisions\/76963"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/76961"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=76945"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=76945"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=76945"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}