{"id":3438,"date":"2011-09-09T01:00:32","date_gmt":"2011-09-09T09:00:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lighthousebc.com\/beacon\/?p=3438"},"modified":"2016-10-21T22:33:15","modified_gmt":"2016-10-22T05:33:15","slug":"weekly-links-992011","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lighthousebc.com\/beacon\/2011\/09\/09\/weekly-links-992011\/","title":{"rendered":"Weekly Links (9\/9\/2011)"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>There is no peace like the peace of those whose minds are possessed with full assurance that they have known God, and God has known them, and that this relationship guarantees God&#8217;s favor to them in life, through death and on for ever. (J. I. Packer,\u00a0<em>Knowing God<\/em>)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><em>by Richard Shin<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><\/em><em>Editor&#8217;s Note: In order to give me more time to work on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lighthousebc.com\/beacon\/?cat=109\">BOB<\/a>, Richard Shin has kindly agreed to shoulder some of the load of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lighthousebc.com\/beacon\/?cat=16\">Weekly Links<\/a> articles. \u00a0Just so you know, we don&#8217;t read the same set of blogs, (although if you&#8217;re looking, I know some <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lighthousebc.com\/beacon\/?p=2561#Blogs\">good ones<\/a>), so this is a chance to discover some material that might otherwise not have come up. \u00a0So thank Richard when you see him, and I hope you enjoy!<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>It seems we&#8217;re making a habit of linking the Cripplegate. Well, that&#8217;s not a problem as long as the articles are worthy. And <a href=\"http:\/\/thecripplegate.com\/the-churches-mission-statement\/\">this one<\/a>\u00a0on the <a href=\"http:\/\/lighthousebc.com\/welcome\/mvp\/\">mission of the church<\/a> is\u00a0worthy.<\/li>\n<li>On that note, Parchment and Pen has a great <a href=\"http:\/\/www.reclaimingthemind.org\/blog\/2011\/09\/making-jesus-known-some-random-thoughts-on-evangelism\/\" class=\"broken_link\">article<\/a>\u00a0on compassion for the lost that goes really well with the one linked above.<\/li>\n<li>This one&#8217;s kind of old and long, but I would be robbing you if I didn&#8217;t at least make you aware of it. John Piper interviews John Knight on having a disabled 16 year-old son in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.desiringgod.org\/blog\/posts\/john-piper-interviews-john-knight-on-disability\" class=\"broken_link\">part 1<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.desiringgod.org\/interviews\/john-piper-interviews-john-knight-part-2\" class=\"broken_link\">part 2<\/a>, and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.desiringgod.org\/interviews\/john-piper-interviews-john-knight-part-3\" class=\"broken_link\">part 3<\/a>. And here are the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.desiringgod.org\/blog\/posts\/transcripts-of-john-pipers-interviews-with-john-knight\" class=\"broken_link\">transcripts<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>Paul Tripp shares his thoughts\u00a0on the most transformational word in Scripture: <a href=\"http:\/\/thegospelcoalition.org\/blogs\/tgc\/2011\/09\/06\/the-most-transformational-word\/\">grace<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>One of my favorite blogs to follow is\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.thegospelcoalition.org\/blogs\/rayortlund\/\">Ray Ortlund&#8217;s<\/a>. As long as you see me linking articles on the\u00a0Beacon, it&#8217;ll be rare for me to not link at least one\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/thegospelcoalition.org\/blogs\/rayortlund\/2011\/08\/30\/pleasure-on-the-enemys-ground\/\">article<\/a>\u00a0of his. In case you&#8217;re unfamiliar, that&#8217;s a quote from a demon to a fellow demon in C.S. Lewis&#8217; book\u00a0<em>The Screwtape Letters<\/em>.<\/li>\n<li>Lastly, I leave you with a video. Justin Taylor reshares an <a href=\"http:\/\/thegospelcoalition.org\/blogs\/justintaylor\/2011\/09\/07\/on-self-promotion\/\">older clip<\/a> of Ask Pastor John (Piper) on self-promotion and influence that hopefully leads you to promote Jesus in your life.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There is no peace like the peace of those whose minds are possessed with full assurance that they have known God, and God has known them, and that this relationship guarantees God&#8217;s favor to them in life, through death and on for ever. (J. I. Packer,\u00a0Knowing God) by Richard Shin Editor&#8217;s Note: In order to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":307,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3438","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\/3438","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\/307"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lighthousebc.com\/beacon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3438"}],"version-history":[{"count":18,"href":"https:\/\/lighthousebc.com\/beacon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3438\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12767,"href":"https:\/\/lighthousebc.com\/beacon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3438\/revisions\/12767"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lighthousebc.com\/beacon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3438"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lighthousebc.com\/beacon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3438"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lighthousebc.com\/beacon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3438"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}