{"id":9247,"date":"2014-05-16T01:00:44","date_gmt":"2014-05-16T08:00:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lighthousebc.com\/beacon\/?p=9247"},"modified":"2016-10-12T00:41:30","modified_gmt":"2016-10-12T07:41:30","slug":"9247","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lighthousebc.com\/beacon\/2014\/05\/16\/9247\/","title":{"rendered":"Weekly Links (5\/16\/2014)"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\" align=\"center\">&#8220;It is one of the defining marks of Our Time that God is now weightless. I do not mean by this that he is ethereal but rather that he has become unimportant. He rests upon the world so inconsequentially as not to be noticeable. He has lost his saliency for human life. Those who assure the pollsters of their belief in God&#8217;s existence may nonetheless consider him less interesting than television, his commands less authoritative than their appetites for affluence and influence, his judgment no more awe-inspiring than the evening news, and his truth less compelling than the advertisers&#8217; sweet fog of flattery and lies. That is weightlessness. It is a condition we have assigned him after having nudged him out to the periphery of our secularized life&#8230;.Weightlessness tells us nothing about God but everything about ourselves, about our condition, about our psychological disposition to exclude God from our reality.&#8221; (David Wells, God In The Wasteland)<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\" align=\"center\">By Cesar Vigil-Ruiz<\/p>\n<p>Feliz Friday! I pray this week has been one filled with love, meditation and prayer for those in our communities who have been affected by the fires. Let us keep them in mind as we get through this weekend. Here are this week\u2019s links:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Joe Carter is back with another article in his apologetics and worldview analysis series called, \u201c<span style=\"text-decoration: underline\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thegospelcoalition.org\/article\/what-does-1-1-2-mean-why-christianity-matters-for-math-and-everything-else\/\">What Does 1+1=2 Mean? \u2013 Why Christianity Matters for Math (and Everything Else<\/a><\/span>).\u201d If you want to delve deeper into this subject, Vern Poythress, who has a Ph.D in Mathematics and teaches New Testament at Westminster Theological Seminary, has a very thorough article that argues for a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.frame-poythress.org\/a-biblical-view-of-mathematics\/\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\">distinctly Christian view of mathematics<\/span><\/a>. This will change the way you do math. Not sure about those AP tests, though\u2026<\/li>\n<li>How are you doing&#8230; sleep-wise? We know we have that notion in the back of our minds that we should be sleeping more, but in this fast-paced, on-the-go world, who really has the time? Pastor David Murray has written about the <a href=\"http:\/\/headhearthand.org\/blog\/2014\/05\/14\/arrogance-of-ignoring-our-need-of-sleep\/\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\">deleterious effects<\/span><\/a> of sleeping less than 6-7 hours of sleep, along with <a href=\"http:\/\/headhearthand.org\/blog\/2014\/05\/15\/10-reasons-why-were-sleeping-so-badly\/\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\">ten excuses<\/span><\/a> (he said \u201creasons\u201d, but I think we all know he was being nice about it) for why we don\u2019t sleep longer. As a late-night owl, I heartily amen the advice given by Pastor Murray and hope to begin this tonight.<\/li>\n<li><span style=\"line-height: 1.714285714;font-size: 1rem\">Speaking of advice, we tend to give it out a lot (I do it all the time on these posts!). However, is every bit of advice we give helpful? How can we discern when we are giving good or bad advice? Ed Welch has a <\/span><a style=\"line-height: 1.714285714;font-size: 1rem\" href=\"http:\/\/www.ccef.org\/resources\/blog\/offer-advice-very-carefully\"><span>gem of a post<\/span><\/a><span style=\"line-height: 1.714285714;font-size: 1rem\"> worth reading regarding giving advices.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"line-height: 1.714285714;font-size: 1rem\">Yesterday was the 30 year anniversary of the death of Francis Schaeffer. He was a model for someone consistently spoke truth and acted with grace. An unconventional evangelist, he opened his home for anyone to come and ask him whatever questions they had, and he would even let them spend the night when the conversation carried into the night. I first heard about him from a book called <\/span><i style=\"line-height: 1.714285714;font-size: 1rem\">Truth with Love: The Apologetics of Francis Schaeffer<\/i><span style=\"line-height: 1.714285714;font-size: 1rem\"> and have enjoyed learning from him ever since. In commemorating this, Ray Ortlund gives three reasons he\u2019s <\/span><a style=\"line-height: 1.714285714;font-size: 1rem\" href=\"http:\/\/www.thegospelcoalition.org\/blogs\/rayortlund\/2014\/05\/15\/gratitude-for-francis-schaeffer\/\"><span>grateful for the life of Schaeffer<\/span><\/a><span style=\"line-height: 1.714285714;font-size: 1rem\">. I echo those reasons and hope to grow in my love towards others as well as be unwavering in speaking the truth as an expression of love.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"line-height: 1.714285714;font-size: 1rem\">This week, <\/span><a style=\"line-height: 1.714285714;font-size: 1rem\" href=\"https:\/\/itunes.apple.com\/us\/itunes-u\/apologetics-101\/id875475884?mt=10\" class=\"broken_link\"><span>Apologetics 101<\/span><\/a><span style=\"line-height: 1.714285714;font-size: 1rem\"> brought us a new release of lectures by Westminster Theological Seminary professor K. Scott Oliphint. He is considered to be one of the foremost proponents of presuppositional apologetics, and this is a great resource to benefit from. Also, keep in mind that it\u2019s FREE. Don\u2019t pass on this one!<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"line-height: 1.714285714;font-size: 1rem\">Ben Edwards of Detroit Baptist Theological Seminary has written a <\/span><a style=\"line-height: 1.714285714;font-size: 1rem\" href=\"http:\/\/dbts.edu\/blog\/an-evaluation-of-the-word-of-faith-movement\/\" class=\"broken_link\"><span>review\/critique of a book that chronicles a Word of Faith church<\/span><\/a><span style=\"line-height: 1.714285714;font-size: 1rem\">. The author provides an insider\u2019s perspective, as he provides sociological data that will give you some background of the inner workings of the mindset of those who accept this kind of teaching. Very informative.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"line-height: 1.714285714;font-size: 1rem\">For those interested in the Calvinist-Arminian debate, Mark Jones was interviewed concerning the <\/span><a style=\"line-height: 1.714285714;font-size: 1rem\" href=\"http:\/\/tonyreinke.com\/2014\/05\/13\/the-nature-and-scope-of-the-atonement-in-the-calvinist-arminian-debates-interview-with-mark-jones\/\"><span>relationship between definite (limited) atonement and penal substitution<\/span><\/a><span style=\"line-height: 1.714285714;font-size: 1rem\">, and how those who refer to themselves as Reformed or Calvinists differ in their views from Arminians, both in the past and today. It may seem heady at first, but there is some solid insight in this interview. Check it out.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"line-height: 1.714285714;font-size: 1rem\">Andy Davis is a pastor at First Baptist Church in Durham, North Carolina. He is known for his discipline of memorizing large portions (even books) of the Bible. He has just published a small booklet called <\/span><i style=\"line-height: 1.714285714;font-size: 1rem\">An Approach to Extended Memorization of Scripture<\/i><span style=\"line-height: 1.714285714;font-size: 1rem\"> and was <\/span><a style=\"line-height: 1.714285714;font-size: 1rem\" href=\"http:\/\/www.thegospelcoalition.org\/article\/skip-the-verse-memorize-the-book-andrew-davis-on-extended-bible-memorization\/\" class=\"broken_link\"><span>interviewed on how every believer can develop the discipline of Scripture memorization<\/span><\/a><span style=\"line-height: 1.714285714;font-size: 1rem\"> and why this isn\u2019t done more often. An <\/span><a style=\"line-height: 1.714285714;font-size: 1rem\" href=\"http:\/\/www.fbcdurham.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/Scripture-Memory-Booklet-for-Publication-Website-Layout.pdf\" class=\"broken_link\"><span>earlier draft<\/span><\/a><span style=\"line-height: 1.714285714;font-size: 1rem\"> has been made available. I\u2019m not sure if it\u2019s been updated, but I hope this will be a reminder of our need for God\u2019s Word to be embedded into our hearts more so than our own words. Jon Bloom from Desiring God follows up with <\/span><a style=\"line-height: 1.714285714;font-size: 1rem\" href=\"http:\/\/www.desiringgod.org\/\/articles\/ten-reasons-to-memorize-big-chunks-of-the-bible\" class=\"broken_link\"><span>ten reasons to memorize large portions of Scripture<\/span><\/a><span style=\"line-height: 1.714285714;font-size: 1rem\">. Discipline yourself for the purpose of godliness (1 Timothy 4:7)!<\/span><\/li>\n<li><a style=\"line-height: 1.714285714;font-size: 1rem\" href=\"http:\/\/www.crossway.org\/blog\/2014\/05\/what-does-jesus-think-about-homosexuality\/\"><span>What does Jesus say about homosexuality?<\/span><\/a><span style=\"line-height: 1.714285714;font-size: 1rem\"> I think you\u2019ll be surprised at the answer.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"line-height: 1.714285714;font-size: 1rem\">As promised, Michael Kruger\u2019s <\/span><a style=\"line-height: 1.714285714;font-size: 1rem\" href=\"http:\/\/www.reformation21.org\/articles\/how-jesus-became-god-a-review.php\" class=\"broken_link\"><span>full review<\/span><\/a><span style=\"line-height: 1.714285714;font-size: 1rem\"> of Bart Ehrman\u2019s book <\/span><i style=\"line-height: 1.714285714;font-size: 1rem\">How Jesus Became God<\/i><span style=\"line-height: 1.714285714;font-size: 1rem\"> has been posted. Don\u2019t be caught off guard with these kinds of objections.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"line-height: 1.714285714;font-size: 1rem\">How often should we talk about ourselves in counseling others? Bob Kellemen has some <\/span><a style=\"line-height: 1.714285714;font-size: 1rem\" href=\"http:\/\/www.rpmministries.org\/2014\/05\/should-counselors-talk-about-themselves\/\" class=\"broken_link\"><span>thoughtful words<\/span><\/a><span style=\"line-height: 1.714285714;font-size: 1rem\"> related to this question that we would be wise to consider.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>That\u2019s all the links for this week! We can praise God even during this difficult time while our neighbors are evacuating from their homes because God is still good. Let us that this time will bring many to recognize their need for a Savior, and to hold our own possessions loosely for the sake of the Gospel. See you all Sunday!<\/p>\n<p><i>Soli Deo Gloria<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;It is one of the defining marks of Our Time that God is now weightless. I do not mean by this that he is ethereal but rather that he has become unimportant. He rests upon the world so inconsequentially as not to be noticeable. He has lost his saliency for human life. 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