{"id":2364,"date":"2010-11-12T01:00:19","date_gmt":"2010-11-12T09:00:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lighthousebc.com\/beacon\/?p=2364"},"modified":"2012-11-26T20:55:12","modified_gmt":"2012-11-27T04:55:12","slug":"weekly-links-11122010","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lighthousebc.com\/beacon\/2010\/11\/12\/weekly-links-11122010\/","title":{"rendered":"Weekly Links (11\/12\/2010)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>by Stephen Rodgers<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Well, welcome back to another edition of the Weekly Links.  That means we&#8217;ve made it to Friday once again.  I hope you&#8217;ll enjoy and reflect on the following as you finish your week and start to get ready for Sunday. \u00a0Just to keep things interesting, I&#8217;ve broken them up thematically for you again this time.<\/p>\n<p><strong>CHURCH &amp; GOSPEL<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Starting everything off, here&#8217;s a short video from Joshua Harris on what our attitude and behavior should be like as we <a href=\"http:\/\/vimeo.com\/15759182\">come to church.<\/a> (VIDEO)<\/li>\n<li>Over at the Resurgence, Russell Moore asks a bit of an odd question: <a href=\"http:\/\/theresurgence.com\/2010\/11\/07\/do-our-church-testimonies-empower-satan\">do our church testimonies empower Satan?<\/a> His exploration of our perception of testimonies is very insightful. \u00a0(WEB)<\/li>\n<li>And since we&#8217;re on the subject of things that happen in church, the Biola blog has a good article on the nature of worship music in church today in their article <a href=\"http:\/\/magazine.biola.edu\/article\/10-fall\/weightier-worship\/\">&#8220;Weightier Worship.&#8221;<\/a> They explore the issue of what music and singing are supposed to do and point us to, and what they&#8217;ve been reduced to instead. \u00a0(WEB)<\/li>\n<li>A few weeks ago, the weekly links had a couple of articles on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lighthousebc.com\/beacon\/?p=2263\">how to disagree with people.<\/a> For anyone who did NOT read that and now find themselves in severe interpersonal conflict, here are <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ccwtoday.org\/article_view.asp?article_id=256\" class=\"broken_link\">15 reminders\/Biblical principles as you navigate the conflict.<\/a> (WEB)<\/li>\n<li>Jon Acuff has a helpful reminder about the target of the Gospel in his post <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jonacuff.com\/stuffchristianslike\/2010\/11\/getting-the-bus-all-wrong\/\">&#8220;Getting the Bus All Wrong.&#8221;<\/a> And since it&#8217;s Jon Acuff, he also talks about doughnuts. (WEB)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>SOCIAL MEDIA &amp; DIGITAL LIFE<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Over at the Desiring God blog, they&#8217;ve begun a series on the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.desiringgod.org\/blog\/posts\/faithful-presence-amid-continuous-partial-attention\" class=\"broken_link\">consequences of multi-tasking.<\/a> If this is something that you&#8217;re interested in, you might want to check it out. (WEB)<\/li>\n<li>And meanwhile, over at GTY, John MacArthur has an excellent article on some of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gty.org\/blog\/B101110\">concerns and pitfalls of the digital life.<\/a> I think he raises some incredibly valid points, made all the more interesting because I&#8217;m pretty sure the GTY staff had to print out all those articles for him. \u00a0I say this without mockery since Pastor MacArthur used to be <em>my<\/em> pastor. \u00a0Some might say that invalidates his arguments, but I don&#8217;t think so; I think this is about as close to an unbiased opinion based on Biblical truth that you can get. \u00a0(WEB)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>PRISON<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Over at PyroManiacs, Dan Phillips has a post on how <a href=\"http:\/\/teampyro.blogspot.com\/2010\/11\/reflections-on-gospel-repentance-and.html\">criminals, convicts, crime, and conversion<\/a> should influence our understanding of the Gospel. (WEB)<\/li>\n<li>Stand to Reason has a quick retelling of their experience in <a href=\"http:\/\/str.typepad.com\/weblog\/2010\/11\/what-does-discipleship-in-prison-look-like.html\" class=\"broken_link\">visiting a prison.<\/a> The Resurgence <a href=\"http:\/\/theresurgence.com\/2010\/11\/09\/inmates-and-the-glory-of-god\">tells a similar story.<\/a> (WEB)<\/li>\n<li>I thought I had already posted this, but apparently not. \u00a0Not too long ago, John Piper <a href=\"http:\/\/www.desiringgod.org\/blog\/posts\/john-piper-at-angola-prison\" class=\"broken_link\">visited, preached, and did a Q&amp;A at Angola Prison.<\/a> The sermon where he discusses it is not available on their website, but John MacArthur did the same, and is actually personally financing a theological library for them as well. \u00a0So please remember these Christian brothers and sisters in jail who are trying to use their incarceration to further the Kingdom. (WEB\/AUDIO\/VIDEO)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>That&#8217;s all for this week. \u00a0See you Sunday!<\/p>\n<p><em>Pro Rege<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Stephen Rodgers Well, welcome back to another edition of the Weekly Links. That means we&#8217;ve made it to Friday once again. I hope you&#8217;ll enjoy and reflect on the following as you finish your week and start to get ready for Sunday. \u00a0Just to keep things interesting, I&#8217;ve broken them up thematically for you [&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-2364","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\/2364","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=2364"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/lighthousebc.com\/beacon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2364\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6611,"href":"https:\/\/lighthousebc.com\/beacon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2364\/revisions\/6611"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lighthousebc.com\/beacon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2364"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lighthousebc.com\/beacon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2364"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lighthousebc.com\/beacon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2364"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}