{"id":2144,"date":"2010-09-17T02:00:16","date_gmt":"2010-09-17T10:00:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lighthousebc.com\/beacon\/?p=2144"},"modified":"2017-09-05T14:14:55","modified_gmt":"2017-09-05T21:14:55","slug":"weekly-links-9172010-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lighthousebc.com\/beacon\/2010\/09\/17\/weekly-links-9172010-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Weekly Links (9\/17\/2010)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>by Stephen Rodgers<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Alright, I&#8217;m going to keep it short this week, since you also really should scroll down and read the SPARK below.  So, this week&#8230;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Last week we looked at the first two parts of an article by RC Sproul.  The article explored the question of &#8220;If God is Sovereign, Why Pray?&#8221;  This week, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ligonier.org\/blog\/if-god-sovereign-why-pray-pt-3\/\" class=\"broken_link\">part 3<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ligonier.org\/blog\/if-god-sovereign-why-pray-pt-4\/\" class=\"broken_link\">part 4<\/a> are up as well.  (WEB)<\/li>\n<li>Over at the Resurgence, the interview with Randy Alcorn continues, as they discuss <a href=\"http:\/\/theresurgence.com\/2010\/09\/13\/transforming-the-hearts-of-a-generation-of-givers\">transforming the hearts of a generation of givers<\/a>.  For what it&#8217;s worth, I found his book <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Treasure-Principle-Unlocking-Secret-LifeChange\/dp\/1590525086\" class=\"broken_link\">The Treasure Principle<\/a><\/em> to be simply excellent.  (VIDEO)<\/li>\n<li>Also, speaking of Randy Alcorn, here&#8217;s a quick excerpt from a video on him discussing the <a href=\"http:\/\/vimeo.com\/14673997\">importance of the local church.<\/a>  (VIDEO)<\/li>\n<li>Over at Desiring God, they&#8217;ve got a great article on <a href=\"http:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20120301150803\/http:\/\/www.desiringgod.org\/blog\/posts\/13-questions-to-diagnose-your-idolatries\">how to diagnose idolatries<\/a> in our lives.  (WEB)  And I think I&#8217;ve mentioned it before, but I&#8217;ve found <a href=\"http:\/\/jamiehart.typepad.com\/files\/idols-of-the-heart-powlison.pdf\" class=\"broken_link\">Powlison&#8217;s article<\/a> on the subject to be one of the best things ever written on the subject of idolatry.  (PDF)<\/li>\n<li>Also, I know a lot of folks at our church have benefitted greatly from the writing of Paul Tripp.  Well, did you know that he&#8217;s written <a href=\"http:\/\/www.desiringgod.org\/authors\/paul-tripp\" class=\"broken_link\">several articles<\/a> for Desiring God and they&#8217;ve collected them all in one handy place?  (WEB)   Also, over at his website, he has <a href=\"http:\/\/paultrippministries.sitewrench.com\/sys_status\/deactivated\/\" class=\"broken_link\">70 free audio programs<\/a> that you can listen to as well.  (AUDIO)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><em>Pro Rege<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Stephen Rodgers Alright, I&#8217;m going to keep it short this week, since you also really should scroll down and read the SPARK below. So, this week&#8230; Last week we looked at the first two parts of an article by RC Sproul. The article explored the question of &#8220;If God is Sovereign, Why Pray?&#8221; This [&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-2144","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\/2144","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=2144"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/lighthousebc.com\/beacon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2144\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13862,"href":"https:\/\/lighthousebc.com\/beacon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2144\/revisions\/13862"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lighthousebc.com\/beacon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2144"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lighthousebc.com\/beacon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2144"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lighthousebc.com\/beacon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2144"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}