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Articles From Around The Web
1. Raymond Chang: Small Groups in the Time of Covid-19
Raymond Chang affirms that virtual gatherings are neither ideal nor permanent, but for this unprecedented time he offers 8 tips to take your small group online.
2. Abbey Wedgeworth: Everything’s Canceled! Dealing with Disappointment in Pandemic
I personally know people who have had to cancel weddings, parties, and more. Here are 4 places to look during disappointment.
3. Hannah Chao: Why We Need Artists During COVID-19
Writing in her newsletter, Hannah Chao gives 4 reasons why poets, artists, writers, and musicians must create art during this COVID-19 crisis.
Books, Podcasts, Music, And More
1. Someday is Here Podcast: “I am Not a Virus!”
Vivian Mabuni hosts Eugene Cho, Judy Wu Dominick, Helen Lee, and Seana Reavis as they talk about what’s going on in the Asian American community as the world reacts to the COVID-19 pandemic.
2. Tim Challies: All the Free and Discounted Stuff for these Difficult Times
A list of resources, books, videos, and more from some of our favorite Christian ministries and publishers.
3. Spotify: TGIF Playlist
Featuring the songs Christ our Hope in Life and Death, Before the Throne of God Above, and He Will Hold Me Fast.
4. Aaron Lee: Book Reviews
American History by Thomas S. Kidd.
Featured This Week On SOLA Network
1. Kevin Yi: 3 Things Youth Pastors Need to Focus On During COVID-19
“Let me get straight to the point. The things that our students have been hard at work preparing for – it’s all getting canceled and postponed indefinitely. And the disappointment of losing so many academic and social markers of growing up is going to be crushing for our students.”
2. Tony Thomas: The COVID-19 Exile: 10 Practices for Building Up Your Family
“There was a certain centrality to family life and its significance to Christian discipleship that the rhythms of past ages naturally provided. And it helps us understand the context for the instruction of God’s Word from parents to their children in: Deuteronomy 6:7 – You shall teach them diligently to your children, and shall talk of them when you sit in your house, and when you walk by the way, and when you lie down, and when you rise.”
3. Tony Thomas: The COVID-19 Exile: Stuck with Our Families for Good
“While that promise gives us comfort, we recognize that the verse does say that all things take time to ‘work together.’ Thus, there is an inevitable wilderness between the Promise and the Promised Land. And thus, we do appropriately mourn and lament as we wait. Yet, part of what produces the healing and hope as we wait is pressing into the Lord to ask, ‘But Father, what is the good you are working to produce in this?’”
4. TGIF: Roundup for March 20, 2020
In case you missed it: What the Early Church Can Teach Us About the Coronavirus, Why I’m Thankful to be Connected to a Local Church in a Time Like This, Pastoring Amid Pandemic: Counsel from a Pastor in China, and Too Privileged to Panic?
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