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“Many of us believe in “The One,” the idea of a soulmate or a single person meant for each person. In other words, it’s the belief that there is only one particular person God has reserved for each of us.” Read our flashback article by Daniel K. Eng: How Do I Know If Someone is “The One”?
Our articles from around the web this week are all about relationships. If you find something worth sharing, reach me on Twitter or Instagram.
Articles From Around The Web
1. Lydia Kinne: Teach Children to Value Singleness
“When parents teach children the beauty of both singleness and marriage, they equip children to better serve and glorify God through every season.”
2. Jonathan Worsley: Maintain a Good Relationship with Christians from Other Churches
“When it comes to the Christian life, when it comes to how members of different gospel-preaching churches ought to relate to one another, we need to change our strategy. We need to remember we’re playing Forbidden Island—not Risk or Monopoly.”
3. Joe Rigney: Instruments of Unrighteousness: How Pornography Offends Male Embodiment
“The drives and urges designed by God to push men into the world, to call forth sacrifice and service, and to bind them to wife and children through self-mastery instead become avenues for the barren pleasure of self-worship.”
Books, Podcasts, Music, And More
1. Crossway Podcast: Reading the Psalms with Jesus in View
“In this episode, Dane Ortlund discusses how the psalms uniquely invite us into prayer and devotion, how they reflect the greatness of God, and how he cares for his people.”
2. Ask Pastor John: Doing Math to the Glory of God
“Why learn math — especially if studying math feels agonizing? Pastor John addresses an 8-year-old boy struggling to persevere in school.”
3. Aaron Lee: Related Works
Book Reviews: The Pastor by Faculty and Friends of ‘Old’ Princeton, The Child’s Story Bible by Katherine Vos. Like our TGIF playlist on Spotify. Join my Asian American Worship Leaders Facebook group.
Featured This Week On SOLA Network
1. Scott Sauls: Don’t Lose Heart, Keep Pushing for Better
“The Lord has better for us, and the prophetic voices that come from a place of pain are the most important voices for change to happen—first in the church, and then more broadly in society.”
2. Harold Kim: Jesus Helps Us See
“Our Jesus is so gracious, so true and faithful. He wastes no time and he’ll help us to see.”
3. Aaron Lee: God’s Marvelous and Miraculous Gift of Salvation
“We can worship and witness in any situation because God is sovereign over every circumstance.”
4. Esther Chung-Kim: Asian American and Christian: A Theological Identity
“Asian American evangelicals, in ethnic-specific or pan-ethnic churches, who embrace the components of evangelical faith, who embrace the Christian tradition to a large extent, actually may be in the best position to express a theological identity that is simultaneously Asian American and Christian.”
5. TGIF: Roundup for July 23, 2021
Can Social Media Foster Persuasion (Not Polarization)? / The ‘It’s Just a Movie’ Mistake / The Illusion of Porn “Literacy”
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General disclaimer: Our link roundups are not endorsements of the positions or lives of the authors.