Thank God it’s Friday
This is excerpted from my TGIF column at SOLA Network.
Articles From Around The Web
1. Heidi Tai: Saved From Divorce by Amazing Grace.
“How discovering God’s grace saved my parent’s marriage.”
Related: Closing The Cultural Gap by Heidi Tai
2. Peter Y. Lee: Take a Closer Look at Noah’s Ark
“The ark was a floating coffin, a sanctuary in which God sealed his people.”
Related: Colonizing Mars, the Rainbow, and God’s Promise of Rest by David J. Schuman
3. Tim Challies: Being the Best You Can Be
“Yet there is a world of difference between being the best you can be and wanting to be known as the best.”
Related: They Do All Their Deeds to be Seen by Others: 4 Resolutions for Creative Christians by Aaron Lee
Books, Podcasts, Music, And More
1. Peter Lim: Asian American Spiritual Formation: A Journey of Integration
From the 2025 Asian American Mental Health Conference “Navigating Transitions with Faith and Resilience: Asian American Mental Health Across Life Stages.” This workshop presentation by Pastor Peter Lim explores the intersections of faith, culture, and emotional well-being through spiritual practices contextualized for Asian American communities.
Related: We Are Not Immune: Lessons from a Mental Health Crisis by Matthew D. Kim
2. Scott Hubbard: What Should I Read Next?
“Find those authors and worlds, those poets and lyrics, that put loveliness right under your nose.”
Related: Why Christians Should Read Fiction: Confessions of a Bookish Believer by Katelyn Ho
3. Aaron Lee: Related Works
Book reviews: Whitefield on the Christian Life by Tom Schwanda and Ian Maddock, Chronicles of Wonder: The Story-Filled Life of C. S. Lewis by Leah Boden, Unhurried: An Invitation to Slow Down, Create Margin, and Surrender Control to God by Samantha Decker. Listen to our TGIF playlist on Spotify. Join my Asian American Worship Leaders Facebook group.
Featured This Week On SOLA Network
1. Steve S. Chang: SOLA Leader’s Podcast Announcement
“The church needs leaders who prioritize faithfulness over fame, who love their congregations more than their own voice. But how do we learn from leaders like them? For this reason, SOLA Network is launching the Leader’s Podcast, to amplify the voices of those shaping a gospel future for the emerging generation of Asian Americans and beyond.”
2. Lily P. McLaughlin: A Note on Suffering
“I am learning every day that I do not have to carry the world on my shoulders, and my life is no longer in my hands but in the one who has the best plan for it.”
3. Aaron Lee: ‘A Holy Haunting’ Wins the 2025 BookLife Prize: An Interview with Sam D. Kim
“I think that when things are precarious and when institutions and public trust — societal trust — is at an all-time low, sort of like 9/11, when the world seems out of control, we can go to theory, psychology, research and all that. But in the end, you want something to hold on to. And I think that the well — you know, in the longest — is God.”
4. TGIF: Roundup for June 27, 2025
My Child’s Success Isn’t My Crowning Glory / The Idol of Popularity / The Forgotten Evangelists: Mobilizing Ordinary Members in Everyday Evangelism / Who Is My Neighbor? Revisiting the Chinese Exclusion Era / How to be the adult in a roomful of teenagers
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