On behalf of the SOLA Network Digital Admin Team, we hope you have a happy Thanksgiving holiday! We are grateful for our readers around the world. This Thanksgiving week, we revisited our articles that show our hope in Christ in the midst of loss, suffering, and pain. Find them featured below and on Instagram.
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Articles From Around The Web
1. Aaron and Michelle Reyes: God Gave You a Specific Congregation. Preach to Them.
“Success is not measured by counting the likes a sermon receives online but by connecting the Word of God to our congregants and seeing fruit in their individual lives.”
2. Clarissa Moll: Don’t Let 2020 Stop Your Thanksgiving
“Thankfulness may require special attention, resolve, and purpose in this season, but it is still possible. Even in all of this, I can choose to see what good things God has done.”
3. Scott Hubbard: God Is More Than ‘God’ – Why He Loves to Be Called Father
“Our God is not only Yahweh, but Jesus: not only the God who is, but the God who saves. And because he saves, we get to know him by another name, one that may be the sweetest of all.”
Books, Podcasts, Music, And More
1. Exilic Church: Good Good Father
New York City’s Exilic Church celebrated their 6-year anniversary with this special song from their praise team.
2. Tapestry LA Church: Ever Be
Thick synths, heavy drums, and soft strumming make for a moody song setting. There is conviction in the lead vocals, choice harmonies, and the bridge is beautiful.
3. NewStory Church: Living Hope
I love the bare beginning with minimal instrumentation, the drums come in to help buildup the song, and the vocals take off and soar at the end!
4. Aaron Lee: Related Works
Book Reviews: From Adam and Israel to the Church by Benjamin L. Gladd; Rebels and Exiles by Matthew S. Harmon. Our TGIF playlist is available on Spotify. Join my Asian American Worship Leaders Facebook group.
Featured This Week On SOLA Network
1. Sarah Kim: 5 Ways to Show Compassion to Those Who Are Grieving
“I can testify that even in immense grief, there can be immense hope. We’re relational beings by nature and our capacity to love and empathize is huge.”
2. Amy Loh: Finding My Neediness in Postpartum Hours, Days, and Weeks
“The world may see weakness as a negative. But in God’s Kingdom, your weaknesses and neediness point to His sufficiency and His power at work in you.”
3. Faith Chang: She Has Done a Beautiful Thing: How God Uses Our Alabaster Jars
“Mary’s anointing of Jesus reminds us that though voices in the room may loudly declare it, it is never a waste to offer to Christ all we have.”
4. Christine Kim: Why I’m Writing About My Miscarriage
“I don’t know when I’ll heal and how and if God will redeem the miscarriage, but I do know that when my strength and my faith are small, God still walks with me.”
5. TGIF: Roundup for November 20, 2020
A Ministry of Refreshment / Every Woman Needs Another: A Call to Spiritual Motherhood / One Race United in Christ: How Justification Destroys Ethnic Division
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General disclaimer: Our link roundups are not endorsements of the positions or lives of the authors.