{"id":11227,"date":"2015-09-04T01:00:53","date_gmt":"2015-09-04T08:00:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lighthousebc.com\/beacon\/?p=11227"},"modified":"2015-09-04T06:49:12","modified_gmt":"2015-09-04T13:49:12","slug":"weekly-links-942015","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lighthousebc.com\/beacon\/2015\/09\/04\/weekly-links-942015\/","title":{"rendered":"Weekly Links (9\/4\/2015)"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>&#8220;We all want progress. But progress means getting nearer to the place where you want to be. And if you have taken a wrong turning, then to go forward does not get you any nearer. If you are on the wrong road, progress means doing an about-turn and walking back to the right road; and in that case the man who turns back soonest is the most progressive man.&#8221; (CS Lewis, <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Mere Christianity<\/span>)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><em>by Stephen Rodgers<\/em><\/p>\n<p>So, it&#8217;s the first Friday of the month, and that means I&#8217;m back with hopefully enough reading material to keep you occupied until next month rolls around!<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"line-height: 1.71429; font-size: 1rem;\">If audio books are your thing, then the free book of the month by christianaudio.com is <a href=\"http:\/\/christianaudio.com\/free\"><em>AHA<\/em> by Kyle Idleman.<\/a> I can&#8217;t really tell you much about this one, since it&#8217;s new to me, but you can check the link and see if it&#8217;s of interest to you.<\/span><\/li>\n<li>If Logos is your thing, then the free book of the month is the <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.logos.com\/free-book-of-the-month\">Mentor Commentary on Amos.<\/a> <\/em>I&#8217;ve heard a few people say some nice things about it, so I&#8217;d recommend snatching it up.<\/li>\n<li>Ligonier puts out a monthly collection of articles called &#8220;Tabletalk,&#8221; and this month the topic under discussion is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ligonier.org\/blog\/columns-tabletalk-magazine-september-2015\/\" class=\"broken_link\">&#8220;The Study Bible.&#8221;<\/a> You definitely don&#8217;t want to miss that.<\/li>\n<li>Also, the Gospel Coalition puts out a more&#8230;robust&#8230;journal entitled Themelios, and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thegospelcoalition.org\/article\/themelios-40.2#When:05:02:00Z\">issue 40.2 is out.<\/a> A good chunk of each issue is given over to book reviews, but definitely scan the table of contents and see if there&#8217;s anything in there that grabs you. Personally, I thought Ovey&#8217;s essay on\u00a0<em>Antigone<\/em> being misunderstood in secular society was pretty&#8230;what&#8217;s the word the kids use these days?&#8230;boss. It was pretty boss.<\/li>\n<li>Ligonier Ministries is also on a roll this month. Not only is there a new edition of Tabletalk (see above), but there&#8217;s also a free ebook entitled\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.ligonier.org\/blog\/free-ebook-state-american-theology\/\"><em>The State of American Theology<\/em>.<\/a> It&#8217;s an expansion of their article series on demographic data of religiosity in America, with a number of additional articles thrown in. It&#8217;s definitely worth getting, especially if you want to get a better understand of where our culture and context are heading.<\/li>\n<li>Last but certainly not least, they also have expanded their <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ligonier.org\/blog\/rc-sprouls-crucial-questions-ebooks-now-free\/\">free offering of RC Sproul&#8217;s Crucial Questions series to a whopping 22 books!<\/a> GET THIS! It&#8217;s on Kindle, it&#8217;s on iBooks, it&#8217;s on Logos&#8230;seriously, now is a great time to check to make sure that these are all on the reading device \/ platform of your choice. While Sproul and LBC would quibble on a doctrinal distinctive here or there, on par these are excellent, Gospel-centered resources, and your library and mind will be better for having them and reading them.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>That&#8217;s pretty much it for now&#8230;see you Sunday!<\/p>\n<p><em>Pro Rege<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;We all want progress. 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