To a man who lives unto God nothing is secular, everything is sacred. He puts on his workday garment and it is a vestment to him. He sits down to his meal and it is a sacrament. He goes forth to his labor, and therein exercises the office of the priesthood. His breath is incense and his life a sacrifice. He sleeps on the bosom of God, and lives and moves in the divine presence.

To draw a hard and fast line and say, “This is sacred and this is secular,” is, to my mind, diametrically opposed to the teaching of Christ and the spirit of the gospel. Paul has said, “I know, and am persuaded by the Lord Jesus, that there is nothing unclean of itself” [Romans 14:14]. Peter also saw a sheet let down from heaven in which were all manner of beasts and four-footed creatures, which he was bidden to kill and eat, and when he refused because they were unclean, he was rebuked by a voice from heaven, saying, “What God hath cleansed that call not thou common” [Acts 10:15; 11:9].

The Lord hath cleansed your houses, he has cleansed your bed chambers, your tables, your shops, he has made the bells upon your horses holiness to the Lord, he has made the common pots and pans of your kitchens to be as the bowls before the altar, if you know what you are and live according to your high calling. You housemaids, you cooks, you nurses, you ploughmen, you housewives, you traders, you sailors, your labor is holy if you serve the Lord Christ in it, by living unto him as you ought to live. The sacred has absorbed the secular. (Charles Haddon Spurgeon, “All For Jesus”)

by Stephen Rodgers

Now that the hiatus is over, we’ve got a lot of good updates for you.  So just be aware that this particular Weekly Links is a little bit longer than usual.  Still, I’m completely sure that there is something in here that will benefit everyone.

New Resources

• As always, there’s a new free AUDIO book from christianaudio.com: The Disciplines of the Christian Life by Eric Liddell.
• And for anyone using Logos, the free resource for the month is B.F. Westcott’s The Epistle to the Hebrews.
• There’s a new edition of Tabletalk magazine, and this time the topic is “Eastern Spirituality.”
• Ligonier Ministries just launched a new app called “RefNet,” which is basically broadcasting sermons and news 24/7, including Renewing Your Mind with RC Sproul, “Alistair Begg at Truth For Life, John MacArthur at Grace to You, John Piper at Desiring God, Albert Mohler with The Briefing and Thinking in Public, and many others.”
• The latest edition of Themelios (37.2) is out. It clocks in at 263 pages, including 78 book reviews.
• I’m afraid I’ve let my monitoring of CredoMag slip a bit, but they have a new issue out focusing on Old Princeton. (It also includes a brief interview with Mark Dever for all you 9Marks fans). They have previous issues focusing on “Chosen by Grace,” “Make Disciples of All Nations,” “In Christ Alone,” and “The Living Word.” You can hit up their archives page for those.
• Last but not least, it’s come to my attention that there are some great resources at GTY that get overlooked. First, they’ve got a series of Q&A Sessions, and second, they’ve got a series of Study Guides. The fact that both of those have been indexed by scriptural reference make them surprisingly easy to use!

Articles and Updates of Note

• I’ve updated a few of the BOB articles, specifically 1 & 2 Chronicles, Isaiah, and Ezekiel to include some additional resources.
• The Cripplegate has an article congratulating Allyson Felix on her recent gold medal. Interesting trivia fact: I went to high school and did Track & Field with Allyson, and even as a freshman she was pretty much destroying almost all of us on the track. I’m happy that her discipline has paid off, and I’m even more pleased that she gives credit and glory to God in her accomplishments.
• Peter Leithart has an absolutely brilliant book review on William Cavanaugh’s The Myth of Religious Violence.
• Tim Challies continues his series on essential doctrines of the Christian faith on the topics of sin and righteousness.
• I found these talks on the conservative revolution at SBTS to be particularly interesting and encouraging. If you’re under the impression that Al Mohler has had an easy life, then you need to hear these.

Pro Rege