Thank you to everyone who attended SOLA Conference 2019: The Prevailing Church! On the SOLA Facebook page, check out 300 photos from the conference and tag your friends.
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We have a variety of links today with fresh and refound content. If you would like your work to be on my radar, please tweet me @musicgoon or email me at aaron@musicgoon.com.
Link Roundup
1. Micha Boyett: ‘As Long as the Baby’s Healthy’… But What if He’s Not?
From the Christianity Today archives, here is a mother’s reflection on babies with Down syndrome and what really matters.
2. Charlene Hao: TTYL Instagram
Diamond Bar High School senior Charlene Hao shares her struggles with social media and challenges us to be fully known in Christ.
3. David Zahl: When parenting becomes a religion, college admissions officers become high priests
Writing for the Washington Post, David Zahl offers perspective on parenting and pride.
4. Whitney Woollard: Delighting in Authority: How to Create a Culture of Happy Complementarians
Author Randy Alcorn reshared this article originally published at 9marks.org. Whitney Woollard is a writer, speaker, and women’s Bible teacher in Portland, Oregon.
5. James Tarmy: Chinese Art’s Final Frontier Might Be New York
“The Western art market is desperate to get into China. Why hasn’t the reverse occurred?”
Weekend Recommendations
1. Credo Magazine: The Impassibility of God
“In this issue, a case is made for divine impassibility, one that refuses to turn God into a victim, or make him vulnerable to emotional fluctuation and suffering.”
2. The Gospel Coalition: How God Found Christopher Yuan
In this 25-minute podcast, TGC’s Collin Hansen interviews Christopher Yuan on Holy Sexuality and the Gospel.
3. Matt Papa & Matt Boswell: Lord From Sorrows Deep I Call (Psalm 42)
Matt Boswell shared this song on Twitter, and is “an attempt to put Psalm 42 in the hearts and mouths of God’s people.” Listen on Spotify or YouTube.
4. Nancy Guthrie: What do you want Christian women today to better understand?
In this 2-minute video from TGC, Nancy Guthrie makes her case for women to center their Bible studies around Jesus.
From SOLA
1. Rebecca Song: This Is The Truth, And It Hurts
“Without receiving Jesus’ saving work on the cross, we are spiritually dead (Eph 2:1). The Bible doesn’t dance around this at all. It gets straight to the point . . . [this is the] unequivocal truth.”
2. Daniel K. Eng: Church Hospitality 101: Very Practical Tips For Everyone
“First impressions last a lifetime . . . Each Sunday, newcomers [are] having their first impression of your church community, [of] Christians, and [maybe even of] Jesus. Do you consider what the newcomer’s first worship experience at your church will be like?”
3. SOLA Network: Fighting For Justice: An Interview With Rachel J. Lee
Introducing our new #ConvoswithSOLA series where we interview people who love Jesus doing things for Jesus with excellence and distinctiveness. Rachel J. Lee (Ray Charles Lee) works at the Antiracist Research and Policy Center in Washington, DC.
4. Daniel K. Eng: Church Hospitality 101: Why It Matters
“Guests to your church form their opinions about Jesus based on how they feel during their first experiences with a church. This is why hospitality matters.”
5. Thank God It’s Friday: Weekend Roundup
In case you missed it, here is our roundup from last week. So What Was It Like Being Married to Someone Pursuing Medicine?, China Tells Christianity To Be More Chinese, 15 Words of Comfort for Those Walking Through Pain/Suffering, The Other LA College Cheating Scandal — The One You Might Have Missed, and 10 Reasons Why the Bible Regards Women Higher than All Other Systems.