{"id":8586,"date":"2013-09-27T01:00:14","date_gmt":"2013-09-27T08:00:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lighthousebc.com\/beacon\/?p=8586"},"modified":"2017-09-05T19:06:47","modified_gmt":"2017-09-06T02:06:47","slug":"weekly-links-9272013","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lighthousebc.com\/beacon\/2013\/09\/27\/weekly-links-9272013\/","title":{"rendered":"Weekly Links (9\/27\/2013)"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>Those spots which a Christian finds in his own heart can only be washed out in the blood of the Lamb.<\/p>\n<p>\u2018Oh,\u2019 says such a poor soul, \u2018I pray\u2014and yet I sin; I resolve against sin\u2014and yet I sin; I combat against sin\u2014and yet I am carried captive by sin; I have left no outward means unattempted\u2014and yet after all, my sins are too hard for me; after all my sweating, striving, and weeping\u2014I am carried down the stream.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>It is not our strong resolutions or purposes which will be able to overmaster these enemies.<\/p>\n<p>There is nothing now but the actings of faith upon a crucified Christ, which will take off this burden from the soul of man. You must make use of your graces to draw virtue from Christ; now faith must touch the hem of Christ\u2019s garment\u2014or you will never be healed. (<em>Thomas Brooks<\/em>)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><em>by Richard Shin<\/em><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Russel Moore gave his inaugural address as the President of The Ethics &amp; Religious Liberty Commission of the Southern Baptist Convention on September 10, 2013. You can read the full transcript <a href=\"http:\/\/www.russellmoore.com\/2013\/09\/19\/a-prophetic-minority-kingdom-culture-and-mission-in-a-new-era\/\">here<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>Jesse Johnson from the Cripplegate shares with us a <a href=\"http:\/\/thecripplegate.com\/moderate-mourning\/\">pastoral letter from Jonathan Edwards<\/a> to a mourning friend. It balances beautifully the internal, emotional conflict Christians feel from the death of a loved believer.<\/li>\n<li>I mentioned Nathan Busenitz&#8217;s series on church history <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lighthousebc.com\/beacon\/?p=8572\">last week<\/a>. He continues his third part this week <a href=\"http:\/\/thecripplegate.com\/the-gospel-in-church-history-part-3\/\">here<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>Tim Challies has an excellent article reviewing John MacArthur&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Strange-Fire-Offending-Counterfeit-ebook\/dp\/B00C5QA3NG\/\" class=\"broken_link\">book<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gty.org\/library\/topical-series-library\/325\">conference<\/a> <em>Strange Fire<\/em>. If you&#8217;re interested in the charismatic movement debate at all, you should read it <a href=\"http:\/\/www.challies.com\/articles\/john-macarthur-and-strange-fire\">here<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>Joe Rigney, with the help of C.S. Lewis and <em>Prince Caspian<\/em>, pens an article on the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.desiringgod.org\/blog\/posts\/recovering-the-lost-art-of-chivalry\" class=\"broken_link\">lost art of chivalry<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>Here&#8217;s an interesting one: Joe Carter from the Gospel Coalition scores a debate on\u00a0 whether <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thegospelcoalition.org\/article\/debatable-is-football-too-violent-for-christians\/\">football is too dangerous for Christians<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>Ed Welch from the Christian Counseling &amp; Educational Foundation (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.ccef.org\/about-ccef\" class=\"broken_link\">CCEF<\/a>) shares a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ccef.org\/resources\/blog\/when-counselors-make-house-calls\">story<\/a> of how he went to visit an eighty-five year old man at a nursing home and the conversation that followed. Similarly, Ivan Mesa writes <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thegospelcoalition.org\/article\/4-lessons-learned-in-nursing-home-ministry\/\">four lessons<\/a> he learned from nursing home ministry. And, well, Brian Croft shares <a href=\"http:\/\/practicalshepherding.com\/2013\/09\/22\/what-are-5-reasons-christians-do-not-visit-the-sick-and-dying\/\" class=\"broken_link\">five reasons<\/a> Christians do not visit the sick and dying.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><em>Coram Deo<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Those spots which a Christian finds in his own heart can only be washed out in the blood of the Lamb. \u2018Oh,\u2019 says such a poor soul, \u2018I pray\u2014and yet I sin; I resolve against sin\u2014and yet I sin; I combat against sin\u2014and yet I am carried captive by sin; I have left no outward [&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-8586","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\/8586","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=8586"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/lighthousebc.com\/beacon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8586\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13915,"href":"https:\/\/lighthousebc.com\/beacon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8586\/revisions\/13915"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lighthousebc.com\/beacon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8586"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lighthousebc.com\/beacon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8586"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lighthousebc.com\/beacon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8586"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}