I asked Karisa You to read her beautiful article: Bread for 100,000 Children: The Prayer Life of George Muller. My devotional exhortation to youth worship student leaders at FCBC Walnut was also featured this week: Three Lessons for Ministry Leaders to Guard Your Heart Against Pride.
SOLA is proud to co-sponsor the Pathways of Grace Conference, featuring Joni Eareckson Tada, to encourage and equip people from local churches who are currently involved or want to be involved in caring for others in their churches affected by disability.
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Articles From Around The Web
1. Abe Cho: Modulating the Key of the Gospel
“As Tim [Keller] put it, If they had to figure out how the gospel of Jesus Christ sounds in the key of psychology, we will need to figure out how the gospel of Jesus Christ sounds in the key of sociology.”
2. CHEN Jing: When the “Golden Age” Is Over: A Call for Missiological Reflection on China Missions of the Past Four Decades
“In the past God has sometimes allowed the church in some contexts to plunge to low points before new paradigms of ministry emerged. What has been happening in China the past several years could be a historic moment like that.”
Related: Learning About The Center for House Church Theology: An Interview with Clara Kim by Aaron Lee
SOLA is proud to co-sponsor the Pathways of Grace Conference, featuring Joni Eareckson Tada, to encourage and equip people from local churches who are currently involved or want to be involved in caring for others in their churches affected by disability.
Books, Podcasts, Music, And More
1. Acts29: Missional Lifestyle
Ryan Kwon on “what we might look like if discipleship and mission are not just independent departments of the church, but a holistically integrated apprenticeship toward the mission of God.”
2. TGC Gospelbound Podcast: Digital Life in the Slow Lane
Jay Kim joins Collin Hansen to discuss “comparison and contempt, love on the move, the design of social media, hate and hurt, chronological snobbery, and more.”
Related: Finding Faithfulness in the Digital Era: An Interview with Jay Y. Kim by Aaron Lee
3. Crossway Podcast: Growing as a Follower in a Culture Obsessed with Leadership
Richard Langer and Joanne Jung point out the prevalence of books, podcasts, and workshops on leadership and suggest that the contrasting idea of followership is where our focus should be.
4. Aaron Lee: Related Works
Book Reviews: Rembrandt is In the Wind by Russ Ramsey, Fanny Crosby (Children’s Book) by Laura Caputo-Wickham, The Illustrated Westminster Shorter Catechism by Andrew Green, Saško Nezamutdinov and Ben Preston, Church History by Simonetta Carr, The Book of Hebrews by Alabaster. Listen to our TGIF playlist on Spotify. Join my Asian American Worship Leaders Facebook group.
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Featured This Week On SOLA Network
1. Jonathan Holmes: Addressing the Struggles of Adoptees with the Father’s Love
“I know the journey of myself and many adoptees is ongoing as we seek to reclaim and reconnect with our cultural heritage and reconcile our narratives with what we know to be true of our loving, Heavenly Father.”
Related: Supporting Adoptees and Parents of Adoptees: An Interview with Jonathan Holmes by Aaron Lee
2. Aly Lee: Good News to the Sick: How Chronic Illness Has Helped Me See the Gospel in a New Way
“When Jesus died on the cross, his actual skin was pierced with nails. God chose for the story of salvation to be a story of intense physical pain.”
3. Aaron Lee: Three Lessons for Ministry Leaders to Guard Your Heart Against Pride
“The measure of a worship leader is not by outward appearances, but by inward affections.”
4. Karisa You: Bread for 100,000 Children: The Prayer Life of George Muller
How does one man care for ten thousand orphans and raise millions of dollars (in today’s currency) without asking for a single donation or ever going into debt? By taking God seriously on His word in Matthew 7:7—ask and it will be given to you.
5. TGIF: Roundup for October 28, 2022
Praying Before Meals like the Men of Gondor / Strategies for Preaching to the Polarized / Living Among Majesties: The Grandeur of the People of God / Embracing Spiritual Authority in the Face of Pastoral Failure
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