What Advent resources do we recommend? What good comes to the Church from COVID-19? What can baking teach us about God’s abounding grace? We answered these questions in our articles this week, and you can read them all on our website.
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Articles From Around The Web
1. Heidi Tai: The Scar
“At times, my failures have left me crushed with regret and yet my Heavenly Father has repurposed them for good—for I now understand the gravity of amazing grace.”
2. J. D. Greear: Six Countercultural Resolutions for Dating
“What if you saw that God’s main purpose in life is preparing you for himself, and that marriage is one way (though certainly not the only way) he can do that?”
3. Sarah Eekhoff Zylstra: How a Former Radical Sparked the New Calvinist Movement
“As a result or consequence of that lack of a well-defined theology, we find evangelicals buying into all of the world’s way of doing things.”
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. Rocky Seto: Video Testimony
Pastor Rocky Seto from Evergreen SGV shared his testimony via video at Living Hope Community Church about how God used the idol of football to help him find his new identity and life in Christ.
3. Aaron Lee: Related Works
Book Reviews: CSB Reader’s Bible, Cloth-Over-Board, Five-Volume Collection by BH Publishing, Spurgeon’s Sermons: 5 Volumes by Hendrickson Publishers, CSB Ancient Faith Study Bible by B&H Publishers. Our TGIF playlist is available on Spotify. Join my Asian American Worship Leaders Facebook group.
Featured This Week On SOLA Network
1. Lia Sumichan: Crowned with Glory and Honor: A Lesson from Baking
“We need to fully acknowledge, comprehend, and experience God’s abounding grace that puts together everything for good.”
2. Tim St. John: Advent Calendar for Couples
“We hope this activity will help you to remember Christ and grow into his likeness during this Advent season.”
3. Aaron Lee: Grace Upon Grace: 7 Silver Linings for the Church during COVID-19
“COVID-19 has shown us in many ways that we are helpless, but not hopeless.”
4. Hannah Chao: A Roundup of Advent Resources for 2020
“It is in the midst of a deep darkness that light came into this world — through the birth of a little baby boy in Bethlehem.”
5. TGIF: Roundup for November 27, 2020
God Gave You a Specific Congregation. Preach to Them. / Don’t Let 2020 Stop Your Thanksgiving / God Is More Than ‘God’ – Why He Loves to Be Called Father
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General disclaimer: Our link roundups are not endorsements of the positions or lives of the authors.