Registration for Witness: SOLA Conference 2021 is now open on Eventbrite! On our Instagram, we highlighted our plenary speakers — Scott Sauls and Harold Kim.
The conference will be held on April 21 at Living Hope Community Church in Brea, California. It will be a one-day, outdoor conference with various safety and sanitation measures in place to help ensure the safety of all attendees. For more info, visit the conference page on our website.
In the featured section below, I’ve shared some Christmas articles from our archive. Our November newsletter was recently published. Read it now and subscribe today to receive our most popular resources from the month. Do you have a link or article to share? Reach me on Twitter or Instagram.
Articles From Around The Web
1. Jonathan Hayashi: 5 Ways to Lead and Love Your Wife
“Because God places such great value on the vitality of the role of the wife, the husband ought to treat her like she is important by leading and loving her as Christ loved the church.”
2. Michelle Reyes: Making Space for a Multicultural Christmas
“We’d do well to make space for a multicultural Christmas, inviting culturally diverse perspectives and celebrations of Christ’s birth in our homes, communities, and churches.”
3. Erick Loh: 3 Lessons from a Recent Pastoral Transition
“Transitions aren’t easy, and your cultural context may present your church with unique challenges. Yet transitions also remind us that the church fundamentally belongs to Christ.”
Books, Podcasts, Music, And More
1. Songs of Hope: A TGC Advent Concert
The free 90-minute concert will premiere at 8 p.m. EST on Sunday, December 6 and will be available to watch in its entirety any time after the premiere.
2. The Greater Story Podcast: The Queen’s Gambit
Mikey & Heidi Tai review The Queen’s Gambit, a Netflix drama mini-series starring Anya Taylor-Joy about chess. They discuss how the themes of control, abandonment, acceptance, and community point us to the greater story in the gospel.
3. Bethel Grace Church: Jesus Messiah
I’m really impressed by the strong vocals, even while wearing masks! This song makes for a rather beautiful song during the Christmas season, with the bridge making mention of Jesus being the light of the world.
4. Aaron Lee: Related Works
Book Reviews: CSB Scripture Notebooks by Holman Publishers, NASB Preacher’s Bible (Premier Collection) by Zondervan, Strangely Bright by Joe Rigney and Crossway. Our TGIF playlist is available on Spotify. Join my Asian American Worship Leaders Facebook group.
Featured This Week On SOLA Network
1. Harold Kim: Sweet Surrender: A Christmas Devotion
“Surrender sounds nice, even sweet, in a Sarah McLachlan song. But real surrender to Jesus means losing control of your life.”
2. Daniel Eng: My Favorite Bible Passage About Christmas Isn’t in the Gospels
“In what some scholars think might be a creed recited by the early church, we get a rich and poetic statement of the benefit that resulted from the birth of Christ.”
3. David Larry Kim: Remembering Christmas in the New Year
“May reminders of Emmanuel cause your heart to be a place of worship and adoration this new year and forevermore.”
4. Aaron Lee: A Scary Story in Bethlehem: 3 Reflections on the Christmas Story
“So the Christmas story is a tale of glory. All of God’s children will live and find life in him.”
5. TGIF: Roundup for December 4, 2020
The Scar / Six Countercultural Resolutions for Dating / How a Former Radical Sparked the New Calvinist Movement
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General disclaimer: Our link roundups are not endorsements of the positions or lives of the authors.