{"id":3212,"date":"2011-05-27T01:00:33","date_gmt":"2011-05-27T09:00:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lighthousebc.com\/beacon\/?p=3212"},"modified":"2014-12-14T14:11:05","modified_gmt":"2014-12-14T22:11:05","slug":"weekly-links-5272011","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lighthousebc.com\/beacon\/2011\/05\/27\/weekly-links-5272011\/","title":{"rendered":"Weekly Links (5\/27\/2011)"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>People do not drift toward Holiness. Apart from grace-driven effort, people do not gravitate toward godliness, prayer, obedience to Scripture, faith, and delight in the Lord. We drift toward compromise and call it tolerance; we drift toward disobedience and call it freedom; we drift toward superstition and call it faith. We cherish the indiscipline of lost self-control and call it relaxation; we slouch toward prayerlessness and delude ourselves into thinking we have escaped legalism; we slide toward godlessness and convince ourselves we have been liberated. (DA Carson,\u00a0<em>For the Love of God, Volume 2<\/em>. HT:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.desiringgod.org\/blog\/posts\/people-do-not-drift-toward-holiness\" class=\"broken_link\">DG<\/a>)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><em>by Stephen Rodgers<\/em><\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;ve got another batch of links for you today, so sit back, buckle up, and hang on&#8230;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The folks over at Desiring God have officially launched a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.desiringgod.org\/all-resources\/by-language\/czech\" class=\"broken_link\">Czech website!<\/a> There&#8217;s not a whole lot of content there yet, but they plan to add one sermon per week. \u00a0This is going to be a great resource for one of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.desiringgod.org\/blog\/posts\/serving-one-of-the-least-religious-populations-on-earth\" class=\"broken_link\">least religious populations on the planet.<\/a> (WEB)<\/li>\n<li>Over at the Ordinary Pastor blog, Erik talks about what his house has been like since they <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ordinarypastor.com\/?p=7577\">radically cut back on television.<\/a> (WEB)<\/li>\n<li>RC Sproul has some thoughts on selecting the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ligonier.org\/blog\/which-interpretation-right\/\" class=\"broken_link\">&#8220;right&#8221; interpretation<\/a> of the Bible. (WEB)<\/li>\n<li>Douglas Groothuis has a very short outline on <a href=\"http:\/\/theconstructivecurmudgeon.blogspot.com\/2011\/05\/truth-and-contradiction.html\">truth and contradiction<\/a> that I appreciated. I may have to use this as a quote on a future Friday. (WEB)<\/li>\n<li>And for everyone who was asking for a video, here&#8217;s one of <a href=\"http:\/\/theresurgence.com\/2011\/03\/19\/the-life-of-george-whitefield-as-told-by-the-doctor\">Martyn Lloyd-Jones speaking of George Whitefield.<\/a> (VIDEO)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>There you go! \u00a0I&#8217;ll see you Sunday.<\/p>\n<p><em>Pro Rege<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>People do not drift toward Holiness. Apart from grace-driven effort, people do not gravitate toward godliness, prayer, obedience to Scripture, faith, and delight in the Lord. We drift toward compromise and call it tolerance; we drift toward disobedience and call it freedom; we drift toward superstition and call it faith. We cherish the indiscipline of [&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-3212","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\/3212","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=3212"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/lighthousebc.com\/beacon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3212\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10152,"href":"https:\/\/lighthousebc.com\/beacon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3212\/revisions\/10152"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lighthousebc.com\/beacon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3212"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lighthousebc.com\/beacon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3212"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lighthousebc.com\/beacon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3212"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}