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Articles From Around The Web
1. Faith Chang: If We Are Kings and Queens
“Our humanity is being redeemed and we worship one who is forever fully God and fully human. Can there be anything more incredible about our humanity than that? That Christ shared in it not to reject and despise it, but to restore it to us and us to it?”
2. Eliza Huie: 4 Traits of an Emotionally Healthy Ministry Worker
“In your failings, the Lord often teaches you more about yourself and his character than in your times of great success.”
3. Steven Lee: Mercy at the Bottom: How Jonah Leads Us to Our Knees
“Jonah teaches us that God is more merciful, more patient, and more forgiving than we can now imagine.”
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Books, Podcasts, Music, And More
1. Life and Books and Everything: Defending Shame with Te-Li Lau
We think of shame as destructive, manipulative, and toxic. And it can be all those things. But shame can also be a powerful and healthy part of our moral formation. In this fascinating conversation, Kevin DeYoung talks to Te-Li Lau, a professor at Trinity Evangelical Divinity School, about his recent book Defending Shame: It’s Formative Power in Paul’s Letters. Together, Kevin and Te-Li explore the pervasiveness of our therapeutic assumptions, the central theme of shame throughout the Bible, and good and bad ways to think about shame in our own lives.
2. Getty Sing! Conference: Five Reasons for Missional Singing
Pastor John Piper preaches on “Singing of Christ to the Nations” live at the Sing! 2021 Conference in Nashville, TN.
3. Aaron Lee: Related Works
Book Reviews: 31 Days toward Trusting God by Jerry Bridges, Hosea (Reformed Expository Commentary) by Richard D. Phillips, Romans (Reformed Expository Commentary) by Daniel Doriani. Listen to our TGIF playlist on Spotify. Join my Asian American Worship Leaders Facebook group.
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Featured This Week On SOLA Network
1. Keith Fong: Some Practical Advice for Helping Suffering Christians
“My answer to “How do we counsel suffering brothers and sisters in Christ?” is “Show them Christ, our suffering Savior—our suffering substitute, our sympathetic sufferer, and our suffering bearer.” I think that is a sufficient theological answer. But how that theology works itself out in practice is just as crucial.”
2. Keith Fong: What Do Suffering People Need the Most?
“Jesus’ death for our sins does not just give hope for eternity, but also today in the midst of our everyday suffering—our anxiety, loneliness, fear.”
3. Keith Fong: How Do We Counsel Suffering Brothers and Sisters in Christ?
“Counseling suffering people must be full-orbed love—compassionate, intelligent, holistic, grace-saturated, Christ-exalting love.”
4. TGIF: Roundup for March 18, 2022
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