{"id":79417,"date":"2024-07-07T23:01:00","date_gmt":"2024-07-08T04:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/?p=79417"},"modified":"2024-07-07T23:09:55","modified_gmt":"2024-07-08T04:09:55","slug":"a-la-carte-july-8-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/?p=79417","title":{"rendered":"A La Carte (July 8)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p data-beyondwords-marker=\"ba538c60-e2f4-4b18-9340-13e8e5583f25\" class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Good morning. Grace and peace to you.<\/p>\n<p data-beyondwords-marker=\"302f4d89-7799-4429-8bb2-70e5bb442938\" class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Today&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.challies.com\/kindle-deals-for-christians\/\">Kindle deals<\/a> are headlined by Tim Chester&#8217;s <em>A Meal with Jesus<\/em> and Megan Hill&#8217;s <em>A Place to Belong<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p data-beyondwords-marker=\"526d6057-cbeb-4542-87e7-96d18996aa92\" class=\"wp-block-paragraph box\"><strong>Book Brief<\/strong> <em><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.challies.com\/a-la-carte\/a-la-carte-july-8-2024\/\" rel=\"noopener\">When the Sea Came Alive<\/a><\/em> by Garrett M. Graff is a riveting oral history of D-Day told from the perspective of those who were there. It&#8217;s very much in the vein of his equally riveting <em><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.challies.com\/a-la-carte\/a-la-carte-july-8-2024\/\" rel=\"noopener\">The Only Plane in the Sky<\/a><\/em> which is an oral history of 9\/11. Both are highly recommended.<\/p>\n<p data-beyondwords-marker=\"2b26673a-d56d-4398-a297-24b8f03a38dc\" class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>(Yesterday on the blog: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.challies.com\/articles\/sunday-devotional-your-best-and-worst-days\/\">Your Best and Worst Days<\/a>)<\/em><\/p>\n<p> <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/clintotc.beehiiv.com\/p\/crow-bait-approach-theology\" rel=\"noopener\">The Crow Bait Approach to Theology<\/a> <\/p>\n<p data-beyondwords-marker=\"de052477-81bb-4509-b09a-017fe414122a\" class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;Crow bait. That\u2019s how many people treat the search for truth.\u00a0They pick and choose from the scraps of spiritual roadkill that has been leftover from the centuries.&#8221; I&#8217;ll have Clint explain that to you.<\/p>\n<p> <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/stephenmcalpine.com\/incredible-babies-embryos-in-limbo-and-the-idol-of-choice\/?utm_source=rss&amp;utm_medium=rss&amp;utm_campaign=incredible-babies-embryos-in-limbo-and-the-idol-of-choice\" rel=\"noopener\">Incredible Babies, Embryos in Limbo, and the Idol of Choice<\/a> <\/p>\n<p data-beyondwords-marker=\"8aaead14-3b97-4a18-a07b-5e22238c3459\" class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;The ultimately breaking of one part of God\u2019s good intention for marriage. Every part of the marriage debate\/debacle over the past few decades has been to destroy the God-givenness of it. Not to destroy God of course. But to become gods ourselves. And the more godlike we become<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A La Carte: The crow bait approach to theology \/ Incredible babies, embryos in limbo, and the idol of choice \/ Kevin DeYoung on making every issue &#8220;your thing&#8221; \/ The abolition of porn \/ All sunshine makes a desert \/ Kindle deals \/ and more.See AlsoA La Carte (June 17)A La Carte (June 6)Weekend A La Carte (May 25)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19,"featured_media":79433,"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-79417","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\/07\/cover-a-la-carte-mon-a-1-1.jpg?fit=1920%2C1219&ssl=1","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79417","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=79417"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79417\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":79435,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79417\/revisions\/79435"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/79433"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=79417"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=79417"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=79417"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}