{"id":82121,"date":"2024-08-28T23:01:00","date_gmt":"2024-08-29T04:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/?p=82121"},"modified":"2024-08-28T23:26:20","modified_gmt":"2024-08-29T04:26:20","slug":"a-la-carte-august-29-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/?p=82121","title":{"rendered":"A La Carte (August 29)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p data-beyondwords-marker=\"9a2c35d2-c2b9-4012-8d84-d8db55d0702f\" class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Lord be with you and bless you today.<\/p>\n<p data-beyondwords-marker=\"fa8f84ad-f6a3-47ad-ac2b-8c411c32529e\" class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Today&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.challies.com\/kindle-deals-for-christians\/\">Kindle deals<\/a> include some choice picks from Sinclair Ferguson, Alistair Begg, Michael Kruger. You&#8217;ll also find Nik Ripken&#8217;s <em>The Insanity of God<\/em>. In related news, Amazon has a couple of Kindle devices on sale: The <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.challies.com\/a-la-carte\/a-la-carte-august-29-2024\/\" rel=\"noopener\">standard Kindle<\/a> as well as the <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.challies.com\/a-la-carte\/a-la-carte-august-29-2024\/\" rel=\"noopener\">Paperwhite bundle<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p data-beyondwords-marker=\"c944ad1e-d560-4416-a51d-9e13d3e4dc17\" class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>(Yesterday on the blog: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.challies.com\/articles\/is-it-time-to-stop-streaming-your-service\/\">Is It Time To Stop Streaming Your Service?<\/a>)<\/em><\/p>\n<p> <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/thecripplegate.com\/how-to-identify-a-false-teacher-part-1\/\" rel=\"noopener\">How to Identify a False Teacher<\/a> <\/p>\n<p data-beyondwords-marker=\"14b3db21-a960-4129-bf64-fab369ee0f1f\" class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;The New Testament is replete with warnings to God\u2019s people to beware of false teachers.&#8221; This article helps you learn how to identify them\u2014a task that is often far more difficult than it seems.<\/p>\n<p> <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.newstatesman.com\/cover-story\/2024\/08\/the-rise-of-cultural-christianity\" rel=\"noopener\">The Rise of Cultural Christianity<\/a> <\/p>\n<p data-beyondwords-marker=\"e5edcdf7-d2b9-4c26-8a32-32840f8d2206\" class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Madeleine Davies takes a stab at explaining the unexpected rise of cultural Christianity\u2014people who are content to consider themselves cultural Christians even while they deny the tenets of the Christian faith. (I think you should be able to read the article without paywall, though it&#8217;s possible you&#8217;ll need to register for a free account.)<\/p>\n<p> <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.christianitytoday.com\/2024\/08\/paralympics-2024-paris-christian-athlete-god-faith\/\" rel=\"noopener\">19 Christian Para Athletes to Root for at the Paris 2024 Paralympics<\/a> <\/p>\n<p data-beyondwords-marker=\"f4faa742-5062-49f1-a5c0-918cea04c3da\" class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I appreciated CT highlighting some of the Christian athletes competing at the<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A La Carte: How to identify a false teacher \/ The rise of cultural Christianity \/ 19 Christian Para Athletes \/ Turn off social media until the election \/ Examining our assumptions about disability \/ Kindle deals \/ and more.See AlsoA La Carte (August 26)A La Carte (July 3)Weekend A La Carte (May 25)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19,"featured_media":82137,"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-82121","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-thu-a-5-1.jpg?fit=1920%2C1219&ssl=1","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82121","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=82121"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82121\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":82139,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82121\/revisions\/82139"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/82137"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=82121"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=82121"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=82121"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}