Thank God it’s Friday
This is excerpted from my TGIF column at SOLA Network.
Articles From Around The Web
Heidi Tai: 8 Gentle Truths for Exhausted Hearts
“Carrying too much? 8 truths to help you let go and find true rest.”
Tim Keesee: Help Her Go: Why World Missions Needs Women
“Women provide skills, leadership, and evangelism in every kind of setting as they live in community with the people they are reaching.”
Joy Marie Clarkson: On Reel and Real Beauty
“The beautiful shepherd calls, and we his little sheep answer. In this light, then, beauty or kalon is not an image we cultivate and curate but a call that we answer.”
Books, Podcasts, Music, And More
The Gospel Coalition: Themelios (Spring 2026)
“This special edition of Themelios (spring 2026) is dedicated to D. A. Carson for his work in the field of biblical theology. Themelios has 239 pages of editorials, articles, and book reviews. It is freely available in three formats: (1) PDF, (2) web version, and (3) Logos Bible Software.”
Tim Challies: AI Is Coming For Your Systematic Theology
“I want you to know about these books because I want you to be aware that this is happening. I want you to know it’s happening because it’s likely that things will get far worse before they get any better. I’ll first introduce you to this slop theology, then discuss the threat these books represent, and then tell you how you can identify them.”
Aaron Lee: Related Works
Book reviews: Recommended Systematic Theology. Listen to our TGIF playlist on Spotify. Join my Asian American Worship Leaders Facebook group. Find me on Substack. Keep in touch on X and Instagram.
Featured This Week on SOLA Network
Timarie Friesen: The One-Hundredth-Day Name: A Story of Becoming
“Whether we live in South Korea, the UK, or Midwest Iowa, humanity looks for the light against a dim backdrop. We inhabit a world where premature babies die and the mundane obscures our sense of hope. Then, when we observe beauty, we are stirred to long for more.”
SOLA Network: Introducing our New Managing Editors
We are very excited to announce new faces who will lead SOLA’s editorial team into its next phase: Annie Chung and Daniel Jung! Learn more about our new team members in their own words as well as a word from our outgoing editor, Heidi Wong.
TGIF: Roundup for April 24, 2026
Lessons From the Hidden Vault of Thomas Kinkade: The Dark Side of the “Painter of Light” / Brothers, Aspire to Be Lay Elders / Every Church Needs the Global Church: Four Gifts of a Worldwide Body / 5 Meaningful Ways to Tell Your Daughter She’s Beautiful / On Losing Tim and Why Kathy Keller Published His Sermons on Sin
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