Happy Lunar New Year! To celebrate, I created a Lunar New Year Collection of articles for you to read. Thank you for following and supporting our work at SOLA Network!
My latest book review is Nine Marks of a Healthy Church (4th Ed) by Mark Dever. You can read more book reviews on our website as well as in my Related Works section below.
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Articles From Around The Web
1. Hannah Nation: Separation of Church and State, China Style
“As we watch the ongoing backlash against the recent decades of globalism unfold, the Chinese house church’s continued stance on the separation of church and state signifies one of the largest protests against the growing tide of nationalism in our world today.”
2. Greg Morse: In Love with the Life You Don’t Have
“God tells us to do more than match our desires to our circumstances; we reconsider our circumstances based on the promise of enduring relationship with our God: I will never leave you nor forsake you.”
3. Sarah Eekhoff Zylstra: 6 Lessons for Tending Your Time
“If our days and weeks and years are created by God as a good gift, as right for us as clean air and vegetables, how does that change the way we use them?”
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Books, Podcasts, Music, And More
1. Thanos to Theos Podcast: Russell Moore on Comics & Culture
“Dr. Russell Moore joins this wide ranging podcast episode as we discuss the dual role of comic book stories as a mirror (which shows us who we are) and a map (which normalizes and reinforces certain values).”
2. For the Church: Won Kwak on Identifying Future Leaders
“If you’ve got character people who are teachable ,wanting to learn, wanting to be all in in the ministry that you’re leading, co-laboring in, I think those people are gems to find.”
3. Aaron Lee: Related Works
Book Reviews: Persistent Prayer, by Guy M. Richards, Covenantal Baptism by Jason Helopoulos, Expository Preaching by David Strain. Listen to our TGIF playlist on Spotify. Join my Asian American Worship Leaders Facebook group.
Happy Lunar New Year! To celebrate, check out our Lunar New Year Collection, featuring nine of our favorite articles for you to read and share. Thank you for following and supporting our work at SOLA Network!
Featured This Week On SOLA Network
1. Aaron Lee: Book Review: Nine Marks of a Healthy Church (4th Ed)
“In Nine Marks of a Healthy Church, Mark Dever gives basic biblical principles for assessing and strengthening the health of your church.”
2. Dave Lowe: A Biblical Basis for Contextualized Ministry
Those who question the validity of contextualized movements often fail to recognize this principle: We’re to become like those whom we’re reaching in order to see them won to Christ.
3. P. J. Tibayan: Make the Most of Sunday Morning
“Take focused, intentional time to think about one another—how we will stir up love, how we will encourage, and how we will meet together.”
4. Adam Ch’ng: Living by Plan or Living by Promise?
“God’s promises shine when our plans fail. Our failed plans might just be God’s strange blessing—his severe mercy—to help us behold his greater promise.”
5. TGIF: Roundup for January 28, 2022
Idolatry & Injustice / No Insurance for Broken Hearts / A Message for Young Men
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General disclaimer: Our link roundups are not endorsements of the positions or lives of the authors.