{"id":5644,"date":"2012-06-22T01:00:58","date_gmt":"2012-06-22T08:00:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lighthousebc.com\/beacon\/?p=5644"},"modified":"2012-11-28T06:01:23","modified_gmt":"2012-11-28T14:01:23","slug":"weekly-links-6222012","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lighthousebc.com\/beacon\/2012\/06\/22\/weekly-links-6222012\/","title":{"rendered":"Weekly Links (6\/22\/2012)"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>Christ is not offered us merely as a Savior who does something for us, but he is offered us as Someone who, having done something for us, is himself the propitiation [Romans 3:25]. . . . It is not as if Christ handed you something and said, \u2018Here is your redemption, here is your forgiveness,\u2019 and then ran away, as a messenger hands a gift in at the door and the door shuts and away goes the messenger; he has done his job.\u00a0 Not a bit of it!\u00a0 It is Christ himself, the Worker, who comes to us himself.\u00a0 It is Christ personally who is our salvation. . . . It is Christ himself, personally, who comes to us with all the efficacy, the fruit of what he has done, and is the propitiation for our sin. (William Still,\u00a0<em>The World Of Grace<\/em>)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><em>by Richard Shin<\/em><\/p>\n<p>There is A LOT of stuff this week. And it&#8217;s ALL good.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The Southern Baptist Convention&#8211;the biggest Baptist denomination in America&#8211;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.bpnews.net\/bpnews.asp?id=38080&amp;ref=BPNews-RSSFeed0619\" class=\"broken_link\">elected its first African American President<\/a>, Fred Luter. This is quite significant because the denomination itself originally broke off on the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dennyburk.com\/reflections-on-the-election-of-fred-luter\/\"><em>wrong<\/em> side of slavery<\/a>. You can read an interview Joe Carter did with Fred Luter back in February <a href=\"http:\/\/thegospelcoalition.org\/blogs\/tgc\/2012\/06\/20\/southern-baptists-elect-first-back-president\/\">here<\/a>. And also Dr. Al Mohler&#8217;s reflection on the SBC <a href=\"http:\/\/www.conventionalthinking.org\/2012\/06\/21\/leaving-louisiana-in-the-broad-daylight-the-2012-southern-baptist-convention\/\" class=\"broken_link\">here<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>Homosexuality is not on the down-low as it once used to be. John Piper has a series of short articles on homosexuality that you can find <a href=\"http:\/\/www.desiringgod.org\/blog\/posts\/homosexuality-human-relations-and-the-challenges-to-evangelism\" class=\"broken_link\">here<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>Stemming from Psalm 28:1-5, Paul Tautges challenges us to stop pretending and <a href=\"http:\/\/counselingoneanother.com\/2012\/06\/18\/stop-pretending-cry-out-to-god\/\">cry out to God<\/a> about our anguish.<\/li>\n<li>Michael Horton from the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.whitehorseinn.org\/blog\/\" class=\"broken_link\">White Horse Inn<\/a> published a series of articles that I thought were helpful. He talks about.. a lot of things, including the Reformation, papal infallibility, conversion, Roman Catholicism, <em>sola scriptura<\/em>, and more. You can find them <a href=\"http:\/\/www.whitehorseinn.org\/blog\/2012\/06\/11\/rome-sweet-home\/\" class=\"broken_link\">here<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.whitehorseinn.org\/blog\/2012\/06\/12\/which-church-would-the-reformers-join-today-avoiding-a-false-choice\/\" class=\"broken_link\">here<\/a>, and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.whitehorseinn.org\/blog\/2012\/06\/13\/whos-in-charge-here-the-illusions-of-church-infallibility\/\" class=\"broken_link\">here<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/vimeo.com\/41386833\">Here<\/a>, R.C. Sproul gives his thoughts on understanding the age of the Earth based on Scripture and based on natural\/general revelation. Keith Mathison from Ligonier Ministries (of which R.C. Sproul is Founder and Chairman) has a weekly series on what the Reformed approach to interpreting Scriptures is. You can find the introduction <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ligonier.org\/blog\/introduction-reformed-approach-science-and-scripture\/\" class=\"broken_link\">here<\/a>\u00a0and scroll down to see a list of articles that have been published so far.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Ta-ta!<\/p>\n<p><em>Coram Deo<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Christ is not offered us merely as a Savior who does something for us, but he is offered us as Someone who, having done something for us, is himself the propitiation [Romans 3:25]. . . . 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