{"id":9356,"date":"2014-08-08T01:00:33","date_gmt":"2014-08-08T08:00:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lighthousebc.com\/beacon\/?p=9356"},"modified":"2014-11-18T10:18:40","modified_gmt":"2014-11-18T18:18:40","slug":"weekly-links-882014","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lighthousebc.com\/beacon\/2014\/08\/08\/weekly-links-882014\/","title":{"rendered":"Weekly Links (8\/8\/2014)"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>\u201cI didn\u2019t go to religion to make me happy. I always knew a bottle of Port would do that. If you want a religion to make you feel really comfortable, I certainly don\u2019t recommend Christianity.\u201d (CS Lewis, &#8220;God In The Dock&#8221;)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><em>by Stephen Rodgers<\/em><\/p>\n<p>And after a month-long hiatus&#8230;we&#8217;re back. Don&#8217;t worry, we&#8217;re going to ease back into the swing of things, and in keeping with the ancient pact, I&#8217;m here at the beginning of the month to bring you a list of free resources you&#8217;ll want to know about.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The free book from Logos this month is Dietrich Bonhoeffer&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.logos.com\/free-book-of-the-month\"><em>Creation and Fall<\/em><\/a>. \u00a0I haven&#8217;t read it personally, so I&#8217;m just the conduit on this one. One one hand, Bonhoeffer can be a tad hit and miss. On the other hand&#8230;free book.<\/li>\n<li>The free book this month from christianaudio.com is\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/christianaudio.com\/free\/\" class=\"broken_link\"><em>Anna and the King of Siam<\/em><\/a>. \u00a0You probably are more familiar with the name of the play: The King and I.<\/li>\n<li>Ok, onto more familiar territory for people. The August issue of Tabletalk is out, and it&#8217;s on the topic of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ligonier.org\/blog\/columns-tabletalk-magazine-august-2014\/\" class=\"broken_link\">The Ordinary Christian Life.<\/a><\/li>\n<li>If you haven&#8217;t already picked up all 17 free books in RC Sproul&#8217;s &#8220;Crucial Questions&#8221; series, now is your reminder to do so. If you have already picked up all 17 free book&#8230;well, they added 3 more. And they&#8217;re free. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ligonier.org\/blog\/rc-sprouls-crucial-questions-ebooks-now-free\/\">You should get them.<\/a><\/li>\n<li>And last but not least, RC Sproul is giving away another free book this month, and it&#8217;s the very well-reviewed\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.ligonier.org\/blog\/surprised-suffering-free-ebook\/\"><em>Surprised by Suffering.<\/em><\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>That&#8217;s it. I&#8217;ll be driving all over tarnation and \/ or California this weekend to finish up some work related to LBC&#8217;s missions works in the Czech Republic, but I&#8217;ll hopefully be back next week to pick up where we left off in June. \u00a0See you then!<\/p>\n<p><em>Pro Rege<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cI didn\u2019t go to religion to make me happy. I always knew a bottle of Port would do that. If you want a religion to make you feel really comfortable, I certainly don\u2019t recommend Christianity.\u201d (CS Lewis, &#8220;God In The Dock&#8221;) by Stephen Rodgers And after a month-long hiatus&#8230;we&#8217;re back. Don&#8217;t worry, we&#8217;re going to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":469,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9356","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\/9356","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\/469"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lighthousebc.com\/beacon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9356"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/lighthousebc.com\/beacon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9356\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9787,"href":"https:\/\/lighthousebc.com\/beacon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9356\/revisions\/9787"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lighthousebc.com\/beacon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9356"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lighthousebc.com\/beacon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9356"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lighthousebc.com\/beacon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9356"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}