{"id":3020,"date":"2011-04-08T01:00:11","date_gmt":"2011-04-08T09:00:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lighthousebc.com\/beacon\/?p=3020"},"modified":"2016-10-10T00:56:32","modified_gmt":"2016-10-10T07:56:32","slug":"weekly-links-482011","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lighthousebc.com\/beacon\/2011\/04\/08\/weekly-links-482011\/","title":{"rendered":"Weekly Links (4\/8\/2011)"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>Every time we look at the cross Christ seems to say to us, \u2018I am here because of you. \u00a0It is your sin I am bearing, your curse I am suffering, your debt I am paying, your death I am dying.\u2019 \u00a0Nothing in history or in the universe cuts us down to size like the cross. \u00a0All of us have inflated views of ourselves, especially in self-righteousness, until we have visited a place called Calvary. \u00a0It is there, at the foot of the cross, that we shrink to our true size. (John R. W. Stott,\u00a0<em>The Message of Galatians<\/em>. HT:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.thegospelcoalition.org\/blogs\/rayortlund\/2013\/03\/07\/it-is-there\/\">Ray Ortlund<\/a>)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><em>by Stephen Rodgers<\/em><\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t have a ton of links for you this week; mostly I&#8217;m just clearing out a few things that I&#8217;ve been saving, and highlighting a couple of things you shouldn&#8217;t miss. \u00a0So without further ado&#8230;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>If you recall, I mentioned last time that John Piper was going to preach\/read through his classic book <em>Desiring God<\/em>. \u00a0Well, the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.desiringgod.org\/blog\/posts\/introducing-desiring-god-chapters-1-2\" class=\"broken_link\">introduction to chapters 1 and 2<\/a> is up, along with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.desiringgod.org\/blog\/posts\/desiring-god-read-along-week-1-video\" class=\"broken_link\">Piper&#8217;s actual message.<\/a> And if that weren&#8217;t enough, here comes Curtis Allen with the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.desiringgod.org\/articles\/a-desiring-god-rap-by-curt-allen-a-k-a-voice\" class=\"broken_link\">Desiring God rap song.<\/a> (AUDIO\/VIDEO)<\/li>\n<li>By now most of us have probably heard of Amy Chua and the &#8220;tiger mother&#8221; book. Al Mohler has <a href=\"http:\/\/www.albertmohler.com\/2011\/03\/29\/the-misplaced-aims-of-the-tiger-mother\/\">an article addressing the brouhaha<\/a> as well as bringing a much-needed Christian perspective to the whole thing. (WEB)<\/li>\n<li>As a warning against pride and a reminder of the power of sin, RC Sproul has an article (excerpted from <em>Pleasing God<\/em>) on the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ligonier.org\/blog\/heresy-perfectionism\/\" class=\"broken_link\">heresy of perfectionism.<\/a> (WEB)<\/li>\n<li>I had an opportunity to talk to Pastor Patrick this week about the perception that many in the Christian community have of Calvinism and Calvinists. \u00a0So <a href=\"http:\/\/www.acts29network.org\/acts-29-blog\/elect-or-elite-why-arrogance-has-no-place-in-reformed-theology\/\" class=\"broken_link\">this article from Elliot Grudem<\/a> (son of Wayne Grudem) on the subject was timely indeed. \u00a0And I&#8217;m not just saying that because it contains the phrase &#8220;John Frame is the Chuck Norris of Systematic Theology&#8221; (even though I would offer a hearty &#8220;amen!&#8221; in response). (WEB)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>That&#8217;s it for this week. \u00a0See you Sunday!<\/p>\n<p><em>Pro Rege<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Every time we look at the cross Christ seems to say to us, \u2018I am here because of you. \u00a0It is your sin I am bearing, your curse I am suffering, your debt I am paying, your death I am dying.\u2019 \u00a0Nothing in history or in the universe cuts us down to size like the [&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-3020","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\/3020","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=3020"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/lighthousebc.com\/beacon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3020\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12679,"href":"https:\/\/lighthousebc.com\/beacon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3020\/revisions\/12679"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lighthousebc.com\/beacon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3020"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lighthousebc.com\/beacon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3020"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lighthousebc.com\/beacon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3020"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}