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Articles From Around The Web
1. Eugene Park: 3 Signs Your Church Is in a Bubble (and 3 Tips for Popping It)
“We are called to be set apart from the world, but not from reality.”
2. Kate Shellnutt: How COVID-19 Reshaped Campus Ministry
“As students report high levels of anxiety and isolation in a new InterVarsity survey, ministry leaders look to small groups to provide community for Gen Z.”
3. Brett McCracken: The Depressing Dead End of ‘Your Truth’
“It becomes impossible to form community when everyone is their own island, with no necessary reliance upon larger truths or embeddedness within a bigger story.”
Books, Podcasts, Music, And More
1. The Gospel Coalition: Julius Kim on Witnessing in Weakness
When we feel intimidated, overwhelmed, hopeless, powerless, paralyzed, and demoralized in the face of a culture that esteems success and shuns godliness, we are empowered by the same Spirit—the Spirit of the resurrected Christ—who enabled Paul to witness with power and confidence to the elite in Athens.
2. Ask Pastor John: On Codependent Dating Relationships
God made us to need other people — but not to be codependent on them. So, how can we tell the difference between healthy need and disordered neediness?
3. Aaron Lee: Related Works
Book reviews: The Book of James by Alabaster, Discovering God Through the Arts by Terry Glaspey, NIV Reference Bible (Deluxe SIngle Column, Premier Collection) by Zondervan. Like our TGIF playlist on Spotify. Join my Asian American Worship Leaders Facebook group.
Featured This Week On SOLA Network
1. Fred Mok: The Power of Compounding in Our Relationships
“A relationship habit exercised in one moment rarely has an immediate effect, but it will certainly reap dividends in time—and that’s the point.”
2. Faith Chang: 5 Children’s Bibles to Read with Your Family
“Reading to children of the “glorious deeds of the Lord” is good for our souls as well as theirs.”
3. Eugene Park: The Folly of “Looking for Community”
Community is never found, only built.
4. TGIF: Roundup for July 2, 2021
My Life as a Christian Under a Communist Regime / The Modesty Conversation We Need to Have / Your Spouse Should Complete You: What It Means to Become One
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