Thank God it’s Friday
This is excerpted from my TGIF column at SOLA Network.
Articles From Around The Web
“Counselors, then, should take this same approach of compassionate care instead of laying on guilt for life’s common concerns. Welch offers this gentle corrective to encourage the weak instead of harshly rebuking their anxiety.”
Greg Morse: A Shy Guy’s Guide to Big Groups
“Give what you have in the name of love; give more than what you have — act with the strength that he supplies. Most of us won’t be called to show Jesus-like love by physically laying down our lives for others. But we can spend ourselves, pour out, and lean in, get outside ourselves to care about other souls, other troubles, other lives. He can take your few fish, your felt limitations offered up for his service, and multiply them to bless a large group of people.”
Bohye Kim: We’re Not Made to Outlast Time
“Psalm 103:14–18 helps me to name my experience of Seollal by offering a different account of time. Time is not an achievement measured by progress or productivity. It is a shared gift we receive within the ordering faithfulness of God, who holds human life within time with full knowledge of its limitations.”
Books, Podcasts, Music, And More
Brett McCracken: AI Will Never Win Olympic Gold
“An AI-optimized world, I fear, will quickly begin to feel like a “dead world” devoid of true resonance. Yet athletic competition has the potential to keep us grounded in humanity, providing those ever-rarer moments of real resonance.”
Seth Lewis: A Treasure Chest for Thoughts
“Books can show you new truths you hadn’t thought of, and old truths from new angles you never noticed before. Books can show you lies, as well, and inconsistencies and biases and gaps and misrepresentations—and if you’re careful that can benefit you, too, because the process of thinking through the problems in the thinking of others can help to shore up the gaps in your own thoughts.”
Aaron Lee: Related Works
Book Reviews: The Redeemed Man edited by Joel R. Beeke, Richard D. Phillips, and Paul M. Smalley. The Family Worship Bundleby Joel R. Beeke and Nick Thompson. Find me on Substack. Listen to our TGIF playlist on Spotify. Join my Asian American Worship Leaders Facebook group.
Featured This Week on SOLA Network
SLP EP 15: Leading From the English Chair with David Hsu & Tranwei Yu
“In this episode, Steve Chang is joined by David Hsu (Senior Pastor, West Houston Christian Church) and Tranwei Yu (Senior Pastor & English Pastor, Chinese Grace Bible Church) to discuss what it means to lead from the “English Chair” in a trilingual immigrant church.”
Daniel K. Eng: The Untapped Opportunity for English Ministries
“The feeling of ‘being seen’ is powerful, especially when it relates to the intersection between our ethnic or cultural background and our faith. The children of immigrants often find themselves trying to connect the dots between cultural heritage and spiritual heritage.”
Prairie Park: Not Just Blankets: Caring for Cancer Patients
“As you care for those in your community who are battling cancer or serious illness, remember that we are forever altered, and even when we look better and our hair grows back, we may still be walking that line and in need of encouragement and care.”
TGIF: Roundup for February 20, 2026
We Are Not Workhorses / Christian, God Is Glad to Forgive You / Do You Board First or Last? / Where Gen Z Is Finding Jesus / A Conversation with the Editors of "The New Testament in Color"
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