{"id":8144,"date":"2019-11-28T22:00:03","date_gmt":"2019-11-29T04:00:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/?p=8144"},"modified":"2019-11-28T23:34:34","modified_gmt":"2019-11-29T05:34:34","slug":"friday-5-to-live-by-5-top-christian-blog-posts-of-the-week-11-29-19","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/?p=8144","title":{"rendered":"Friday 5 to Live By: 5 Top Christian Blog Posts of the Week (11\/29\/19)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/Blogging.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>5 top Christian blog posts of the week&mdash;being Thanksgiving Week 2019 (in the US), this week&rsquo;s <em>Friday 5 <\/em>will focus on the topic of thanks. You&rsquo;ll find posts by Kevin Carson, Kevin DeYoung, Scotty Smith, and more.<\/p>\n<p> <strong>Start Your Thanksgiving List Here<\/strong><strong>&nbsp;<\/strong> <\/p>\n<p>Pastor Kevin Carson directs our thanks with these words:<\/p>\n<p>There are so many things for which to be grateful! Great things are everywhere. For those reading this in the United States, the length of blessings far outweighs things for which we should complain. I was thinking through a list this week which includes family, friends, church, opportunities everywhere, and more.But there is something much greater than this. If you follow Christ, begin your list with some verbs related to Christ.<\/p>\n<p>Learn more from Pastor Kevin about the focus of our thanks in <em><a href=\"https:\/\/kevincarson.com\/2019\/11\/25\/start-your-thankful-list-here-1-minute-mondays\/\">Start Your Thanksgiving List Here<\/a><\/em>.<\/p>\n<p> <strong>In Praise of Jesus<\/strong><strong>&nbsp;<\/strong> <\/p>\n<p>Some have described thanks to God as thanking Him for <em>what<\/em> He has <em>done<\/em>. And they have described praise as praising God for <em>Who <\/em>He <em>Is<\/em>. In that light, there is no greater thanksgiving than praising God. Scotty Smith leads us toward such praise in <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thegospelcoalition.org\/blogs\/scotty-smith\/in-praise-of-jesus\/\">In Praise of Jesus<\/a><\/em>.<\/p>\n<p> <strong>How Gratefulness Shapes Our Service<\/strong><strong>&nbsp;<\/strong> <\/p>\n<p>Thanksgiving, while<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>5 top Christian blog posts of the week\u2014being Thanksgiving Week 2019 (in the US), this week\u2019s Friday 5 will focus on the topic of thanks.<br \/>\nThe post Friday 5 to Live By: 5 Top Christian Blog Posts of the Week (11\/29\/19) appeared first on RPM Ministries.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":8147,"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":[6],"tags":[161,1244,1245,1079,1154,1094],"class_list":["post-8144","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-rpm-ministries-bob-kellemen","tag-5-to-live-by","tag-blogs","tag-friday-5","tag-thankfulness","tag-thanks","tag-thanksgiving","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\/2019\/11\/Blogging-1.jpg?fit=287%2C176&ssl=1","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8144","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\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8144"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8144\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8149,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8144\/revisions\/8149"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/8147"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8144"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8144"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8144"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}