“Sin is cosmic treason. Sin is treason against a perfectly pure Sovereign. It is an act of supreme ingratitude toward the One to whom we owe everything, to the One who has given us life itself. Have you ever considered the deeper implications of the slightest sin, of the most minute peccadillo? What are we saying to our Creator when we disobey Him at the slightest point? We are saying no to the righteousness of God. We are saying, “God, Your law is not good. My judgement is better than Yours. Your authority does not apply to me. I am above and beyond Your jurisdiction. I have the right to do what I want to do, not what You command me to do.” (RC Sproul, The Holiness of God)

by Stephen Rodgers

If there’s one thing I can’t stand, it’s an empty threat. And since last week I threatened another edition of the Weekly Links to highly available resources…now I’ve got to follow through.

Articles of Note

• Tim Challies has added the docrine of the Fall to his Essentials series.
• I believe Richard Shin has been covering these as well, but given my recent articles on Jeremiah and Lamentations I wanted to highlight these once more. The Cripplegate has been doing a series on learning to suffer well, and to date the articles are Weeping with Those Who Weep, Acknowledging Sin’s Role in Suffering, Trusting God’s Absolute Sovereignty, Recognizing the Enemy, and Hoping in God’s Character.
• Speaking of the folks at Cripplegate, since we’ve got a church movie event coming up, I thought I’d point out this review of Courageous (possible spoiler alert).
• And speaking of movies…(see how I segue effortlessly from topic to topic, like a graceful swan ninja?)…I’ve long maintained that Brian Godawa is one of the most interesting and insightful Christians in Hollywood today.  I’ve been a big fan of his articles since I first read his review of the third Matrix movie, and I’ve pointed a number of people towards his website, specifically the section containing his articles. What I did not know (and was thrilled to find out), is that he also maintains a movie review blog. Seriously thought-provoking stuff. Now I have a lot of reading to do…

New Resources

• First of all, in case you missed it last week, there’s a new edition of the 9Marks eJournal (blah blah…awesome archive).
• Second of all, in case you missed it last week, there are free TMS classes on Youtube.
• So now we get into the resources that haven’t been mentioned yet…for starters, the June edition of Tabletalk is available on “The Theology of Evangelism” (blah blah…the other awesome archive).
• I’ve blogged elsewhere about some Bible resources that I use, but I wanted to direct your attention to the Reformation Study Bible app. I’m not an “app guy” since I don’t own an “app phone,” but I know that may be of interest to many of you.
• The free book from Logos this month is HA Ironside’s The Four Hundred Silent Years.
• The free audio book from christianaudio.com this month is Dallas Willard’s Hearing God.
• I was stunned to discover that apparently I have never publically proclaimed my love for the writings of Gresham Machen here on the Beacon, so this seems like a great time to do that. The Resurgence is kicking off a series on him, which comes complete with free ebook and free audiobook.
• And that actually reminds me that a while back, Challies did a read-along for Machen’s seminal work Christianity and Liberalism (you can find the parts here: Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4, Part 5, Part 6, Part 7).

See you Sunday!

Pro Rege