{"id":9707,"date":"2019-12-24T04:53:32","date_gmt":"2019-12-24T10:53:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/?p=9707"},"modified":"2019-12-24T05:06:21","modified_gmt":"2019-12-24T11:06:21","slug":"a-la-carte-december-24","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/?p=9707","title":{"rendered":"A La Carte (December 24)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Today’s Kindle deals<\/a> include just a couple of books. Maybe people don’t buy books on Christmas Eve.<\/p>\n

What are the essential ingredients of a true church? (Video)<\/a> <\/p>\n

It’s important to know the historic marks of a true (versus a false) church.<\/p>\n

The Closed Lid<\/a> <\/p>\n

“Throughout the Bible, God uses illustrations to teach His people specific truths about Himself.  Sometimes it’s about His character, sometimes it’s instruction on how to relate to Him, and sometimes it is to remind us of the ways in which He proves His love and care for us.”<\/p>\n

Remember the good old days when it was Christians who wanted Harry Potter banned?<\/a> <\/p>\n

How the tides have turned…<\/p>\n

How one company changed the way we watch television<\/a> <\/p>\n

It’s interesting to consider how entertainment has been utterly transformed over the past decade. Netflix has taken the lead.<\/p>\n

The Problem With My Christmas Traditions<\/a> <\/p>\n

“Ask anyone in my family and they’ll tell you—probably with a wry smile—how much I love traditions. I want things to be done like they always have been. Especially at Christmas.”<\/p>\n

VFX Artist Reveals the True Scale of Atoms<\/a> <\/p>\n

This is kind of a neat way of illustrating the microscopic world.<\/p>\n

A Thrill<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Today\u2019s Kindle deals include just a couple of books. Maybe people don\u2019t buy books on Christmas Eve. What are the essential ingredients of a true church? (Video) It\u2019s important to know the historic marks of a true (versus a false) church. The Closed Lid \u201cThroughout the Bible, God uses illustrations to teach His people specific truths about Himself.\u00a0 Sometimes it\u2019s about His character, sometimes it\u2019s instruction on how to relate to Him, and sometimes it is to remind us of \u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19,"featured_media":9715,"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-9707","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\/2019\/12\/A20La20Carte20-20concepts202-TUES20b-2-1.jpg?fit=910%2C320&ssl=1","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9707","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=9707"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9707\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9717,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9707\/revisions\/9717"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/9715"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9707"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9707"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9707"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}