{"id":88487,"date":"2024-09-19T23:01:00","date_gmt":"2024-09-20T04:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/?p=88487"},"modified":"2024-09-20T00:19:43","modified_gmt":"2024-09-20T05:19:43","slug":"a-la-carte-september-20-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/?p=88487","title":{"rendered":"A La Carte (September 20)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p data-beyondwords-marker=\"a113f900-23b1-46ea-be75-a09641252e77\" class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Good morning from Budapest, Hungary. I made half the journey from Austria to Romania yesterday and will complete it today. I look forward to speaking at a youth event in Zal\u0103u tonight and throughout the weekend. If you are there, be sure to say hello!<\/p>\n<p data-beyondwords-marker=\"a61ccf74-b9a2-4759-9a17-924cadb9cff1\" class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Westminster Books has a deal on a new translation of Calvin&#8217;s excellent <em><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.wtsbooks.com\/blogs\/2024-enews\/on-the-christian-life?utm_source=challies&amp;utm_medium=challies\" rel=\"noopener\">On the Christian Life<\/a><\/em>. You will find there is a reason that it has stood the test of time.<\/p>\n<p data-beyondwords-marker=\"d4fad068-b209-494c-8403-d0a1668d050b\" class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Yes, there are indeed some new <a href=\"https:\/\/www.challies.com\/kindle-deals-for-christians\/\">Kindle deals<\/a> today. And some good ones, too.<\/p>\n<p> <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.firstthings.com\/web-exclusives\/2024\/09\/lose-the-gospel-return-to-childishness\" rel=\"noopener\">Lose the Gospel, Return to Childishness<\/a> <\/p>\n<p data-beyondwords-marker=\"fd2cedf4-e04a-45ff-989a-e7531d633740\" class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Carl Trueman: &#8220;Ours is a childish age. \u2026 That is not to say that the matters at stake in both church and world are not deeply serious. But the idioms for addressing them have become infantile, and the church must resist the temptation to follow the world in this. To seek relevance therefore requires not capitulation to, or emulation of, the infantile, but rather a recapturing of what it means to be an adult. The church must bear witness to a grown-up faith.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p> <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/heiditaiwrites.substack.com\/p\/the-kingdom-didnt-come-for-daughters?r=48i86&amp;utm_medium=ios&amp;triedRedirect=true\" rel=\"noopener\">The Kingdom Didn\u2019t Come For Daughters Like Me<\/a> <\/p>\n<p data-beyondwords-marker=\"de368e19-1246-4b93-b04b-501be70f5a92\" class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This is a<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A La Carte: Lose the gospel, return to childishness \/ The kingdom didn&#8217;t come for daughters like me \/ How to be an anxiety fighter \/ Terminological appropriation \/ All those things we never did \/ and moreSee AlsoA La Carte (July 23)A La Carte (May 30)A La Carte (May 16)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19,"featured_media":88503,"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-88487","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\/09\/cover-a-la-carte-fri-b-5-1.jpg?fit=1920%2C1219&ssl=1","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88487","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=88487"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88487\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":88505,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88487\/revisions\/88505"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/88503"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=88487"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=88487"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=88487"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}