{"id":989,"date":"2009-12-25T01:00:06","date_gmt":"2009-12-25T08:00:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lbcbeacon.wordpress.com\/?p=843"},"modified":"2017-09-05T23:26:26","modified_gmt":"2017-09-06T06:26:26","slug":"weekly-links-christmas-edition-122509","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lighthousebc.com\/beacon\/2009\/12\/25\/weekly-links-christmas-edition-122509\/","title":{"rendered":"Weekly Links &#8211; Christmas Edition (12\/25\/09)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>by Stephen Rodgers<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Merry Christmas Everyone!  This week, since it is Christmas and all, I&#8217;m going to focus purely on a collection of Christmas links for you.  I hope you enjoy them.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>In an interesting bit of Christmas triva, RC Sproul writes about why Christians being upset at &#8220;Christmas&#8221; being written as &#8220;X-Mas&#8221; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ligonier.org\/blog\/why-is-x-used-when-it-replaces-christ-in-christmas\/\" class=\"broken_link\">may have misplaced their anger<\/a>.  He then follows that up with a post underscoring Christ as Savior in understanding <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ligonier.org\/blog\/glory-christmas\/\" class=\"broken_link\">the glory of Christmas<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>Frank Turk of TeamPyro fame has a rather penetrating post dealing with the subject of the wise men who came to worship Jesus.  The parallels for our own lives are convicting to say the least.  I would greatly encourage you to read what he&#8217;s written on the subject of <a href=\"http:\/\/teampyro.blogspot.com\/2009\/12\/come-to-worship.html\">coming to worship<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>CJ Mahaney reminds us all that before we can rightly celebrate Christmas (as it was meant to be celebrated), <a href=\"http:\/\/www.SovereignGraceMinistries.org\/blogs\/cj-mahaney\/post\/disturbing-christmas-2009.aspx\" class=\"broken_link\">we must first be disturbed by what it means<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>Al Mohler writes to remind us that the Christmas story <a href=\"http:\/\/www.albertmohler.com\/2009\/12\/21\/where-does-the-story-of-christmas-begin\/\">does not begin with the four gospels of the New Testament<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>And finally, Kevin DeYoung writes what could be considered the unabridged version of Al Mohler&#8217;s post (see above), in attempting to tackle the Christmas story from beginning to end.  And yes, I saved this one for last because it requires not one, not <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thegospelcoalition.org\/blogs\/kevindeyoung\/2009\/12\/23\/a-christmas-story-from-the-beginning-to-the-beginning-of-the-end-2\/\">two<\/a>, not three, but four parts to tell that story.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Merry Christmas everyone.<\/p>\n<p><em>Pro Rege<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Stephen Rodgers Merry Christmas Everyone! This week, since it is Christmas and all, I&#8217;m going to focus purely on a collection of Christmas links for you. I hope you enjoy them. In an interesting bit of Christmas triva, RC Sproul writes about why Christians being upset at &#8220;Christmas&#8221; being written as &#8220;X-Mas&#8221; may have [&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-989","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\/989","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=989"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/lighthousebc.com\/beacon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/989\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13924,"href":"https:\/\/lighthousebc.com\/beacon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/989\/revisions\/13924"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lighthousebc.com\/beacon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=989"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lighthousebc.com\/beacon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=989"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lighthousebc.com\/beacon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=989"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}