We published two articles regarding Ravi Zacharias: Ravi Zacharias’ Failure — And Mine by Kevin Yi, and Pastors, Please Don’t Forget About Sexual Assault Survivors when Responding to Ravi Zacharias by Soojin Park.
We also released two interviews this week. Moses Y. Lee interviewed Dr. Andrew Ong and Dr. Gray Sutanto on The Theology of Ethnic-Specific Churches. I interviewed Brett McCracken about his new book, The Wisdom Pyramid, and Balancing Our Wisdom Diet in the Internet Age.
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Articles From Around The Web
1. Thomas Hwang: Ten Brief Things I’ve Learned So Far From Being a Lead Pastor
“Despite all the struggles, I’m finding pastoring is truly a good work. Like marriage, it’s far more difficult than you thought, but it’s far more rewarding than you ever imagined.”
2. Clarissa Moll: 4 Ways to Love Someone Blindsided By Loss
“Jesus’s death reminds us of his intimate understanding and presence with us in suffering. Grieving people see their sorrows when they look at the cross.”
3. Joe Rigney: How Porn Weaponizes the Body
“Pornography rewires the brain. But by the grace of God, it’s possible to wire it back again.”
Books, Podcasts, Music, And More
1. The Pursuit with Richard Lee: Cassandra & Edison Lee – Justice Rising
“Cassandra and Edison are co-founders of Justice Rising, an organization that is Educating children living in war zones, empowering them to break the cycle of war and build a culture of peace. They do this by building schools and empowering communities in places like the DRC, Iraq & Syria. In other words, they are working in some of the hardest places in the world, on the ground, to invest in local leaders to build a future of peace.”
2. Ordinary Folk: The Gospel Animated: The Greatest News in the World in 2 Minutes
“Blending every kind of animation we know from cel to 3d, it’s been one of the most challenging projects we’ve worked on to date….” Per Justin Taylor, the video is narrated by Pastor Thabiti Anyabwile.
3. Aaron Lee: Related Works
Book Reviews: Morning & Evening by C. H. Spurgeon; Corporate Worship by Matt Merker; Conspicuous in His Absence by Chloe T. Sun. Our TGIF playlist is available on Spotify. Join my Asian American Worship Leaders Facebook group.
Featured This Week On SOLA Network
1. Aaron Lee: Balancing Our Wisdom Diet in the Internet Age: An Interview with Brett McCracken
“Wisdom is eternal. We believe as Christians that wisdom really is God. God is wisdom incarnate. Everything that is wisdom comes from him, and he is an eternal kind of fount of wisdom.”
2. Moses Y. Lee: The Theology of Ethnic-Specific Churches: A Conversation with Dr. Andrew Ong and Dr. Gray Sutanto
A conversation on the theology of Abraham Kuyper and Herman Bavinck, the catholicity of the church, and the church as seen in Revelation 7.
3. Soojin Park: Pastors, Please Don’t Forget About Sexual Assault Survivors when Responding to Ravi Zacharias
“This is not just a matter of guarding gender roles but fighting for the faith of countless women, particularly those who are victims of abuse, and helping God’s people see the beauty of his goodness even in this broken world.”
4. Kevin Yi: Ravi Zacharias’ Failure — And Mine
“Our hope is not in charismatic church leaders, but Christ alone, who leads and guides his church.”
5. TGIF: Roundup for February 19, 2021
Women Are Not the Problem / ‘Minari’: Searching for Eden in Arkansas / If God Rescued Me, He Can Rescue Anyone
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