{"id":80908,"date":"2024-08-04T23:01:00","date_gmt":"2024-08-05T04:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/?p=80908"},"modified":"2024-08-04T23:26:46","modified_gmt":"2024-08-05T04:26:46","slug":"a-la-carte-august-5-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/?p=80908","title":{"rendered":"A La Carte (August 5)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p data-beyondwords-marker=\"cf93ba12-9561-45f5-8486-da0146aa6bf1\" class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Good morning. Grace and peace to you.<\/p>\n<p data-beyondwords-marker=\"8f57787d-ea4d-4ac3-ac5e-00a9e4babc36\" class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Today&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.challies.com\/kindle-deals-for-christians\/\">Kindle deals<\/a> include several titles on Christian community. Among them are good picks like Megan Hill&#8217;s <em>A Place to Belong<\/em> and Tim Chester&#8217;s <em>A Meal with Jesus<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p> <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/faithroot.com\/2024\/07\/28\/imagine-the-paris-olympics-and-how-a-song-and-a-ceremony-offered-the-only-message-they-could\/\" rel=\"noopener\">The Paris Olympics and Lennon&#8217;s &#8220;Imagine&#8221;<\/a> <\/p>\n<p data-beyondwords-marker=\"f563d3e3-cc0e-4d9f-841a-5f78cfde3859\" class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;It\u2019s ironic given the goddess imagery used and the sacrilegious mockery of the Last Supper in one tableaux that one of the main pieces of music chosen was &#8216;Imagine&#8217; by John Lennon. That\u2019s right, just after the countries of the world had been paraded, named and celebrated with flag waving, we heard the lyric &#8216;imagine there\u2019s no countries.&#8217;&#8221; That seems strange, doesn&#8217;t it?<\/p>\n<p> <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/blog.truthforlife.org\/whats-wrong-with-the-world\" rel=\"noopener\">What\u2019s Wrong With the World<\/a> <\/p>\n<p data-beyondwords-marker=\"42986446-8704-475b-8bd4-6b841cc45b42\" class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201c&#8217;What\u2019s wrong with the world?&#8217; someone asks. Many explanations are on offer: economic turmoil, moral collapse, political extremism. Certainly these are things that are going wrong. But are they &#8216;what\u2019s wrong with the world&#8217;? <em>Why<\/em>\u00a0is there turmoil?\u00a0<em>Why<\/em>\u00a0is there moral collapse?\u00a0<em>Why<\/em>\u00a0do we all run to our corners?&#8221; Alistair Begg answers well.<\/p>\n<p> <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.biblicalcounselingcoalition.org\/2024\/07\/31\/the-mercy-of-affliction\/\" rel=\"noopener\">The Mercy of Affliction<\/a> <\/p>\n<p data-beyondwords-marker=\"f4e6dd99-7e26-4659-a7b3-87c201475681\" class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Gary Hallquist: &#8220;Affliction is not something anyone desires, but that does not mean we don\u2019t need it. The truth is that affliction is a God-appointed tool to<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A La Carte: The Paris Olympics and Lennon&#8217;s &#8220;Imagine&#8221; \/ What&#8217;s wrong with the world \/ The mercy of affliction \/ Your marriage doesn&#8217;t need better communication \/ 9 myths about hell \/ Blow up your church newsletter \/ Kindle deals \/ and more.See AlsoA La Carte (July 29)A La Carte (July 18)A La Carte (July 3)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19,"featured_media":80924,"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-80908","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\/08\/cover-a-la-carte-mon-b-1-1.jpg?fit=1920%2C1219&ssl=1","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80908","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=80908"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80908\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":80926,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80908\/revisions\/80926"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/80924"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=80908"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=80908"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=80908"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}