Thank God it’s Friday
This is excerpted from my TGIF column at SOLA Network.
Articles From Around The Web
1. Isabel Ong: I Have a Baby Face. It Shouldn’t Discount My Leadership.
“Ageism persists in majority-Asian churches. But Scripture exhorts us to transform how we speak and act toward young pastors and leaders.”
Related: Pushed Into Leadership by Joshua Lim
2. Tim Challies: What Does Trouble Do?
“What has trouble done? It has made your faith stronger. It has made your spirit humbler. It has made your character purer. It has given you treasures you could never have had without it and equipped you for service you could otherwise not fulfill.”
Related: Learning and Writing about God and the Church: An Interview with Tim Challies by Aaron Lee
3. Monica Geyen: Tell the Truth About Children
“Children are who God says they are.”
Related: No, I’m Not a Pro: How to Parent our Children’s Souls by Faith Chang
Books, Podcasts, Music, And More
1. Trevin Wax: Could Scrolling Become the New Smoking?
“I wonder if we’ll see peer pressure exerted against the overengineering of social media platforms, a new fondness for unplugging from everything online, a move away from the soul sickness that descends on us when our whole lives revolve around this magic device in our hands.”
Related: Creators, Consumers, and Christ: 10 Social Media Resolutions by Aaron Lee
2. Scott Daniel: What Does God Think of Your Church’s Worship?
“Our Triune God has registered for Bible-reading, Bible-preaching, prayer, congregational singing, and the celebration of baptism and the Lord’s Supper . . . so bring him what he asked for!”
Related: Idolatry & Injustice: What Makes Worship Inauthentic? By Abe Cho
3. Aaron Lee: Related Works
Article: 3 Ways Fasting Focused My Faith. Listen to our TGIF playlist on Spotify. Join my Asian American Worship Leaders Facebook group.
Featured This Week On SOLA Network
1. Aaron Lee: The Spiritual Side of Our Screen Time: A Book Review of “Scrolling Ourselves to Death”
“Scrolling Ourselves to Death is an eye-opening book to the digital age we live in and the spiritual side of our screen time. This book offers both help and hope. If you pay attention to its warnings and apply its wisdom, it can be life-changing.”
2. Daniel Jung: AALC – One Year Later…One Year Ahead
“We recognized we all have our own culturally-nuanced family wounds for which the salve of the gospel had yet to be applied. The general consensus was simple: This is going to be so good.”
3. Jamie Yoo: When to Seek Professional Counseling
“None of us have all the resources we need on our own to adequately face everything life throws at us. God has made us for community and to invite wise conversation partners into our lives. Finding a professional counselor is only a more formalized and structured way of pursuing that.”
4. TGIF: Roundup for May 23, 2025
What Does a Discerning Person Do? / Midwestern Seminary Leaders Visit International Ministry Partners, Celebrate Great Commission Faithfulness in Korea / ‘Why This Waste?’ Our Reason for Missionary Risk / Her Children Arise and Call Her #Blessed / Local Preacher, You Need the Global Church
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