How can platforms and parachurch ministries like SOLA Network achieve longevity and faithfulness? Tim Challies gave us his answer in Learning and Writing about God and the Church: An Interview with Tim Challies. Check out our YouTube for more author interviews.
Tim also read his article, If God Would Outsource His Sovereignty. And I asked Renee Zou to read her article for us as well: God or Money: Detangling a Complicated Relationship. Visit our YouTube for more article reads.
On Sunday, the film Everything Everywhere All at Once won 7 Academy Awards, including Best Picture. Read our new article by Lisa Wong: An Asian American Christian Reflection on “Everything Everywhere All at Once.”
Join us on Substack as we prepare to share a series of devotions for the Easter season. These devotions will be sent to your inbox for free, and a fresh way to reflect on Christ’s life, death, and resurrection.
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Articles From Around The Web
1. Isabel Ong and Sean Cheng: Can Bubble Tea Bring Gen Z into the Chinese Church?
“The beloved drink is both an attraction and a generational divide.”
2. Daniel K. Eng: Is Jesus Really My Friend?
“Jesus is not teaching that his disciples become his equals. Instead, Jesus is using imagery derived from the Greco-Roman custom of patronage.”
3. Rinah Fiol: Gen Z: Let the Gospel Transform Your Creativity
“No amount of ambition, entrepreneurial hustle, or idealistic vision can imbue my generation’s creativity with everlasting significance.”
Join us on Substack as we prepare to share a series of devotions for the Easter season. These devotions will be sent to your inbox for free, and a fresh way to reflect on Christ’s life, death, and resurrection.
Books, Podcasts, Music, And More
1. The Gospel Coalition: Should Churches Be Slow or Quick to Embrace New Technology? With Jay Kim and Patrick Miller
The pace of change in the digital age is staggering. Every year sees the emergence of new platforms, apps, and technologies that each bring possibilities, problems, and power to reshape culture. What should the church’s posture be toward new technologies?
2. 9Marks: God Redeeming His Bride by Robert K. Cheong (A Book Review by Shawn Merithew)
“Cheong’s book is an excellent work. God Redeeming His Bride is a resource I have commended to numerous pastors who want to grow in their understanding of church discipline and who are seeking a biblical resource they can use to train their leaders and congregants.”
3. Aaron Lee: Related Works
Book Reviews: Mental Health and Your Church by Helen Thorne and Steve Midgley, When God Seems Gone by Adam Mabry, Helen Roseveare (Children’s Book) by Lauren Caputo-Wickham. Listen to our TGIF playlist on Spotify. Join my Asian American Worship Leaders Facebook group.
Check out the new edition of our SOLA Network Magazine! Download it for free and share it with your friends as a great way to be introduced to the work we do at SOLA Network.
Featured This Week On SOLA Network
1. Lisa Wong: An Asian American Christian Reflection on “Everything Everywhere All at Once”
“EEAAO and its success echo the goodness, truth, and beauty of God, and they are reasons to give thanks. But ultimately, as a follower of Jesus, my hope should be in God and his plan for a beautifully inclusive world, rather than in my or my society’s view of progress.”
2. Renee Zou: God or Money: Detangling a Complicated Relationship
Christians have a complicated relationship with money and gospel ministry. May God, who is both generous and wise, help us to view our lives and our money rightly, using both as servants for his work in his world.
3. Tim Challies: If God Would Outsource His Sovereignty
“In the life of the Christian, there are not two classes of providence, one good and one bad. No, though some may be easy and some hard, all are good because all in some way flow from his good, Fatherly hand, and all in some way can be consecrated to his service.”
4. Aaron Lee: Learning and Writing about God and the Church: An Interview with Tim Challies
How Tim Challies heard about SOLA, how it feels half a year after releasing his book, behind the scenes of his article for SOLA, how platforms and parachurch ministries can achieve longevity and faithfulness, and his upcoming projects.
5. TGIF: Roundup for March 10, 2023
‘Everything Everywhere All at Once’ and the Beautiful Mystery of God’s Silence / Lived to Be Forgotten: Dixon E. Hoste, Missionary to China / The Joy of Being Forgiven
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