{"id":8531,"date":"2013-09-13T01:00:36","date_gmt":"2013-09-13T08:00:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lighthousebc.com\/beacon\/?p=8531"},"modified":"2014-11-17T14:54:27","modified_gmt":"2014-11-17T22:54:27","slug":"weekly-links-9132013","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lighthousebc.com\/beacon\/2013\/09\/13\/weekly-links-9132013\/","title":{"rendered":"Weekly Links (9\/13\/2013)"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>I hope what you find in yourself by daily experience, will humble you\u2014but not discourage you.<\/p>\n<p>For if our Physician is almighty\u2014our disease cannot be desperate. Our sins are many\u2014but His mercies are more. Our sins are great\u2014but His righteousness is greater. When our sins prevail, remember that we have an Advocate with the Father, who is able to pity, to pardon, and to save to the uttermost!<\/p>\n<p>It is better to be admiring the compassion and fullness of grace which is in our Savior\u2014than to dwell and pore too much upon our own poverty and vileness. (<em>John Newton<\/em>)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><em>by Richard Shin<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Lots of good stuff. Go at &#8217;em!<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Michael Horton from the White Horse Inn shares a post on the excellence of the ordinary Christian. Go <a href=\"http:\/\/www.whitehorseinn.org\/blog\/2013\/09\/07\/ordinary-excellence\/\" class=\"broken_link\">here<\/a> to read more.<\/li>\n<li>C Michael Patton answers objections people have about the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.reclaimingthemind.org\/blog\/2013\/09\/you-cant-use-the-bible-to-prove-the-bible-and-other-stupid-statements\/\" class=\"broken_link\">Bible&#8217;s self-authentication<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.desiringgod.org\/resource-library\/ask-pastor-john\/by-date\/2013\" class=\"broken_link\">Ask Pastor John<\/a> segments from Desiring God are great. John Piper fields questions that Christians may have about anything related to Christianity. I thought I would highlight a couple: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.desiringgod.org\/interviews\/is-my-boyfriend-s-porn-a-marriage-deal-breaker\" class=\"broken_link\">Is My Boyfriend&#8217;s Porn a Marriage Deal-Breaker?<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.desiringgod.org\/interviews\/is-my-husband-s-porn-a-marriage-deal-breaker\" class=\"broken_link\">Is My Husband&#8217;s Porn a Marriage Deal Breaker?<\/a><\/li>\n<li>In the same vein, Garrett Kell from the Gospel Coalition shares <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thegospelcoalition.org\/article\/how-to-destroy-your-marriage-before-it-begins\/\">how to destroy a marriage before it even begins<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>This next one is a personal narrative about a man who&#8211;through immense suffering&#8211;is discovering the truth that we are &#8220;fearfully and wonderfully made&#8221; (Psalm 139:13-14). You can find them in parts: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rabbitroom.com\/2013\/06\/fearfully-and-wonderfully-made-part-1\/\">part 1<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rabbitroom.com\/2013\/07\/fearfully-and-wonderfully-made-pt-2-the-letters\/\">part 2<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rabbitroom.com\/2013\/08\/fearfully-and-wonderfully-made-pt-3-meant-to-live\/\">part 3<\/a>, and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rabbitroom.com\/2013\/09\/fearfully-and-wonderfully-made-pt-4-struck\/\">part 4<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>And last but not least, Sunday is almost here. Let&#8217;s learn <a href=\"http:\/\/headhearthand.org\/blog\/2013\/09\/05\/how-to-criticize-a-preacher\/\">how to better criticize the preacher<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Have a great weekend.<\/p>\n<p><em>Coram Deo<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I hope what you find in yourself by daily experience, will humble you\u2014but not discourage you. For if our Physician is almighty\u2014our disease cannot be desperate. Our sins are many\u2014but His mercies are more. Our sins are great\u2014but His righteousness is greater. When our sins prevail, remember that we have an Advocate with the Father, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":307,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8531","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\/8531","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=8531"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/lighthousebc.com\/beacon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8531\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9645,"href":"https:\/\/lighthousebc.com\/beacon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8531\/revisions\/9645"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lighthousebc.com\/beacon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8531"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lighthousebc.com\/beacon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8531"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lighthousebc.com\/beacon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8531"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}