{"id":11525,"date":"2015-12-04T01:00:29","date_gmt":"2015-12-04T09:00:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lighthousebc.com\/beacon\/?p=11525"},"modified":"2015-12-04T04:40:32","modified_gmt":"2015-12-04T12:40:32","slug":"weekly-links-1242015","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lighthousebc.com\/beacon\/2015\/12\/04\/weekly-links-1242015\/","title":{"rendered":"Weekly Links (12\/4\/2015)"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>\u201cIn answer to your inquiry, I consider that the chief dangers which confront the coming century will be religion without the Holy Ghost, Christianity without Christ, forgiveness without repentance, salvation without regeneration, politics without God, and heaven without hell.\u201d (William Booth)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><em>by Stephen Rodgers<\/em><\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s the first Friday of the month, and that means that you get <em>me<\/em>. And not just me, for I travel with <em>links\u00a0<\/em>as my boon companions. Here we go&#8230;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The free audio book of the month from christianaudio.com is <a href=\"http:\/\/christianaudio.com\/free\"><em>Recovering Redemption<\/em><\/a> by Matt Chandler &amp; Michael Snetzer. I&#8217;m not familiar with it, but historically Matt Chandler books have been quite good.<\/li>\n<li>Logos is going a bit crazy this month: first up, they have their free resource of the month, which is\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.logos.com\/free-book-of-the-month\"><em>The New Testament Library Series: Ephesians<\/em><\/a> by Stephen E. Fowl.<\/li>\n<li>Second, they&#8217;re also giving away the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.logos.com\/product\/55503\/folger-digital-texts-shakespeare-collection\"><em>Folger Digital Texts Shakespeare Collection (42 vols.).<\/em><\/a> If you&#8217;ll pardon a second quote: &#8220;Why then, can one desire too much of a good thing?&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>Lastly, they&#8217;re also giving away a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.logos.com\/christmas\">free resource for every day of Advent.<\/a> So if you&#8217;re a devotee of the Logos platform, you won&#8217;t want to miss <em>that<\/em>.<\/li>\n<li>If there&#8217;s any other Shakespeare snobs out there, you might quibble with my use of the previous quote. &#8220;But Stephen,&#8221; you&#8217;ll say to me, &#8220;with all these free resources, you&#8217;d have been better off quoting Macbeth: &#8216;<span style=\"line-height: 1.71429; font-size: 1rem;\">Nought&#8217;s had, all&#8217;s spent,Where our desire is got without content.&#8217; &#8221; If that&#8217;s you, then you&#8217;ll be pleased as punch to know that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ligonier.org\/blog\/columns-tabletalk-magazine-december-2015\/\" class=\"broken_link\">the December issue of Tabletalk magazine is on the topic of Contentment.<\/a><\/span><\/li>\n<li>When it comes to apologetics books, Josh McDowell&#8217;s\u00a0<em>Evidence That Demands a Verdict<\/em> doesn&#8217;t quite rise to my if-I-were-stuck-on-a-desert-island list, but I&#8217;m still rather happy that there&#8217;s apparently <a href=\"http:\/\/www.angelfire.com\/sc3\/myredeemer\/Evidence.html\" class=\"broken_link\">a free online version of it now.<\/a><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"line-height: 1.71429; font-size: 1rem;\">And last but not least, if December&#8217;s attendant vacation days wouldn&#8217;t be restful without some additional reading material, fear not: there&#8217;s a new <\/span><a style=\"line-height: 1.71429; font-size: 1rem;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.tms.edu\/preachersandpreaching\/new-issue-of-tms-journal\/\" class=\"broken_link\">issue of the TMS journal,<\/a><span style=\"line-height: 1.71429; font-size: 1rem;\"> a new <\/span><a style=\"line-height: 1.71429; font-size: 1rem;\" href=\"http:\/\/cbmw.org\/topics\/news-and-announcements\/the-fall-2015-jbmw-is-here\/\">issue of the JBMW,<\/a><span style=\"line-height: 1.71429; font-size: 1rem;\"> and last but not least, the folks over at RPTS decided to throw their hat into the ring and <\/span><a style=\"line-height: 1.71429; font-size: 1rem;\" href=\"http:\/\/rpts.edu\/alumni.html\" class=\"broken_link\">start a journal as well.<\/a><span style=\"line-height: 1.71429; font-size: 1rem;\"> Enjoy!<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>That&#8217;s it for this time around, see you Sunday! (Unless of course you&#8217;re just reading this on the <em>internet<\/em> with no connection to an LBC church, in which case, hopefully the folks at <em>your<\/em> particular church will see <em>you<\/em> on Sunday, and vice versa). But if you&#8217;re near one of our churches, either in <a href=\"http:\/\/lighthousebc.com\/welcome\/contact\/\">San Diego<\/a> or <a href=\"http:\/\/lighthousebc.com\/welcome\/church-plants\/\">elsewhere,<\/a> we&#8217;d welcome you to join us.<\/p>\n<p><em>Pro Rege<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cIn answer to your inquiry, I consider that the chief dangers which confront the coming century will be religion without the Holy Ghost, Christianity without Christ, forgiveness without repentance, salvation without regeneration, politics without God, and heaven without hell.\u201d (William Booth) by Stephen Rodgers It&#8217;s the first Friday of the month, and that means that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":469,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11525","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-weekly-links"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lighthousebc.com\/beacon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11525","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lighthousebc.com\/beacon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lighthousebc.com\/beacon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lighthousebc.com\/beacon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/469"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lighthousebc.com\/beacon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11525"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/lighthousebc.com\/beacon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11525\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11571,"href":"https:\/\/lighthousebc.com\/beacon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11525\/revisions\/11571"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lighthousebc.com\/beacon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11525"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lighthousebc.com\/beacon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11525"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lighthousebc.com\/beacon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11525"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}