Keith Fong 3/12/20 Keith Fong 3/12/20

Weekly Roundup: COVID-19, Part 1

The whole world is talking, writing, posting, worrying, preparing, and responding to the COVID-19, also called Coronavirus Disease 2019. This post is not meant to share medical information about the virus, or discuss what ought to be done, but instead to curate some of the pastoral responses and the encouraging stories that don’t make it on the major news outlets.

May we respond to such a time as this with faith, not fear, with courage and trust, not despair, for our gracious God is with us and reigns as King forevermore.

Keith Fong 3/1/20 Keith Fong 3/1/20

Weekly Roundup: Suffering and Lament

The deepest pains of the human heart are not healed with a trite truth or by quoting a Bible verse. Indeed, the first response of the faithful often ought to be lament: a raw, crying out to God of faith that ultimately rests in Him. This week’s articles are all about lament: what it is, it’s importance, and how to do so. May you be freed to cry out to God as His beloved child.

Keith Fong 2/23/20 Keith Fong 2/23/20

Weekly Roundup: Comforting Sufferers

This week’s roundup has some resources on how to love and help those who are suffering.

Keith Fong 2/16/20 Keith Fong 2/16/20

Weekly Roundup: Stories of Suffering

Unless you were born yesterday, you have suffered. Welcome to the human condition. This week’s roundup features stories from fellow sufferers. May you find hope in their struggle, as they share how they found hope in our faithful God.

Keith Fong 2/9/20 Keith Fong 2/9/20

Weekly Roundup: Prayer

It only takes one question to make any Christian instantly ashamed: How’s your prayer life?

Keith Fong 1/24/20 Keith Fong 1/24/20

Weekly Roundup: Complementarianism

If you’ve been anywhere near the Christian Twitter world in the past couple of months, you would know that there’s a complementarian crisis. So, for this week’s roundup, I read through 9Marks’ Journal —Complementarianism: A Moment of Reckoning. You can peruse all of the articles of the journal here, but I picked out my favorite articles and put them below. Enjoy!

Keith Fong 1/17/20 Keith Fong 1/17/20

Weekly Roundup: Humility

For this week’s roundup, I dug into the archives and pulled articles about humility. I choose it because this is a character quality that we all, at all times, in all places, need to grow in.

Keith Fong 1/3/20 Keith Fong 1/3/20

Weekly Roundup: Preaching & Preachers

For this week’s roundup, I dug into my archives and pulled a dozen articles about preaching. There’s something for everyone here: those who listen to preaching, those who want to understood good (and bad) preaching, and those who preach.

Keith Fong 12/27/19 Keith Fong 12/27/19

Weekly Roundup: On Reading the Bible

The end of 2019 is quickly approaching, which means that resolution and plans for 2020 are right around the corner! I’ve compiled some articles about Bible reading to help start the new year on the right foot.

Keith Fong 12/20/19 Keith Fong 12/20/19

Weekly Roundup: Santa Claus

This week I dug around in the archives for some articles about our favorite jolly man in a red suit.

Keith Fong 12/13/19 Keith Fong 12/13/19

Weekly Roundup: Depression

Articles on depression: depression and the holidays, William Cowper, pastoring amidst depression, and counselors and depression.

Keith Fong 12/13/19 Keith Fong 12/13/19

God Moves in a Mysterious Way by Indelible Grace

Keith Fong 11/28/19 Keith Fong 11/28/19

Weekly Roundup: gratefulness, ungratefulness, not reading the Bible, and legalism

Gratefulness in loss, ungratefulness as the root of sin, when I don’t want to read the Bible, and legalism as old as Eden itself.

Keith Fong 11/24/19 Keith Fong 11/24/19

The Hero Who Risked All for a Whore

What’s unexpected about Christianity is that its great hero doesn’t risk all for a damsel but for a whore.

Keith Fong 11/22/19 Keith Fong 11/22/19

Weekly Roundup: Psalm 119, Christian liberty, women in the church, Christ and Him crucified

Rescued by Psalm 119, four principles for Christian liberty, women as vital to the church of Christ, and preaching Jesus Christ and Him crucified.

Keith Fong 11/17/19 Keith Fong 11/17/19

Seeing Heaven in the Face of Death

Thus, eternal life is the end and fulfillment of all good things, for which God has purchased us through his Son. This is the goal on which our gaze should be fixed throughout our earthly pilgrimage. This is the treasure that we should unceasingly desire. This is the hour and the blessing to which all the plans and efforts of our lives should be inclined. ...This is our true country, our permanent city, in which our citizenship has been acquired by the merit of the death of Jesus Christ. This is the home that we long for, amidst the banishments, the weariness, the dangerous fears of this valley of misery and the shadow of death. This is the safe refuge and the beautiful harbor toward which we sail amidst so many waves and storms that constantly trouble the world. This is the blessed land where we will dwell by means of death.