{"id":4812,"date":"2012-03-23T01:00:33","date_gmt":"2012-03-23T09:00:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lighthousebc.com\/beacon\/?p=4812"},"modified":"2012-11-28T06:05:00","modified_gmt":"2012-11-28T14:05:00","slug":"weekly-links-3232012","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lighthousebc.com\/beacon\/2012\/03\/23\/weekly-links-3232012\/","title":{"rendered":"Weekly Links (3\/23\/2012)"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>There is no safe investment.\u00a0 To love at all is to be vulnerable.\u00a0 Love anything, and your heart will certainly be wrung and possibly be broken.\u00a0 If you want to make sure of keeping it intact, you must give your heart to no one, not even to an animal.\u00a0 Wrap it carefully round with hobbies and little luxuries; avoid all entanglements; lock it up safe in the casket or coffin of your selfishness.\u00a0 But in that casket \u2014 safe, dark, motionless, airless \u2014 it will change.\u00a0 It will not be broken; it will become unbreakable, impenetrable, irredeemable.\u00a0 The alternative to tragedy, or at least to the risk of tragedy, is damnation.\u00a0 The only place outside Heaven where you can be perfectly safe from all the dangers and perturbations of love is Hell. (C. S. Lewis,\u00a0<em>The Four Loves<\/em>)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><em>by Richard Shin<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Without further ado, let&#8217;s do this:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>First off, we have an update from the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lighthousebc.com\/beacon\/?p=4772\">last<\/a> Weekly Links <a href=\"http:\/\/teampyro.blogspot.com\/2012\/03\/initial-houston-thoughts.html\">here<\/a>. Glad to see him doing well.<\/li>\n<li>Tony Reinke <a href=\"http:\/\/www.desiringgod.org\/blog\/posts\/grace-to-you-in-your-bible-reading-grace-with-you-as-you-live-your-day\" class=\"broken_link\">quotes<\/a> from John Piper&#8217;s <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Future-Grace-John-Piper\/dp\/1590521919\/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&amp;ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1332484532&amp;sr=1-1\">Future Grace<\/a><\/em> on Paul&#8217;s blessings of grace at the beginning and end of each epistle. Speaking of the book, some of you might be interested to know that John Piper is publishing a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.desiringgod.org\/blog\/posts\/how-is-future-grace-being-revised\" class=\"broken_link\">revised edition<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>Mike Riccardi <a href=\"http:\/\/thecripplegate.com\/an-objection-to-gods-sovereignty-that-proves-it\/\">explores<\/a> the seemingly theological conundrum of Romans 9. He then concludes that in order for Romans 9:19 to make sense, the doctrines of grace&#8211;particularly that of total depravity, unconditional election, and\u00a0irresistible\u00a0grace&#8211;<em>must<\/em> be true.<\/li>\n<li>Andy Jones shares <a href=\"http:\/\/thegospelcoalition.org\/blogs\/tgc\/2012\/03\/19\/old-princeton-for-new-calvinists-lessons-from-the-life-of-charles-hodge\/\">nine lessons<\/a> he learned from the life of Charles Hodge, the 19th century theologian.<\/li>\n<li>Jared Wilson posts a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.desiringgod.org\/blog\/posts\/the-subtle-art-of-sabotaging-a-pastor\" class=\"broken_link\">letter from Wormwood<\/a>\u00a0to one of his subordinates on how to sabotage one who works for the &#8220;Enemy&#8221;. Brothers and sisters, we must pray for our pastors. (This Wormwood sounds an awful lot like the one from C. S. Lewis&#8217; famous <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/The-Screwtape-Letters-Proposes-Toast\/dp\/0060652896\/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1332484502&amp;sr=8-1\">The Screwtape Letters<\/a><\/em>)<\/li>\n<li>Many have asked themselves, &#8220;Why does God allow suffering?&#8221; Paul Tautges shares <a href=\"http:\/\/counselingoneanother.com\/2012\/03\/20\/36-purposes-of-god-in-our-suffering\/\" class=\"broken_link\">36 biblical purposes<\/a> of God in our suffering.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Th-th-th-th-th-that&#8217;s all, folks! Have a blessed weekend.<\/p>\n<p>Coram Deo<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There is no safe investment.\u00a0 To love at all is to be vulnerable.\u00a0 Love anything, and your heart will certainly be wrung and possibly be broken.\u00a0 If you want to make sure of keeping it intact, you must give your heart to no one, not even to an animal.\u00a0 Wrap it carefully round with hobbies [&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-4812","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\/4812","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=4812"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/lighthousebc.com\/beacon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4812\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6853,"href":"https:\/\/lighthousebc.com\/beacon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4812\/revisions\/6853"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lighthousebc.com\/beacon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4812"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lighthousebc.com\/beacon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4812"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lighthousebc.com\/beacon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4812"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}