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This is excerpted from my TGIF column at SOLA Network.
Articles From Around The Web
J. A. Medders: 4 Axioms for Leaders: Riffs on Spurgeon's Spiritual Leadership
“It is easy to be the kind of leader who only shows up for vision-casting, preaching, and the other fun aspects of ministry. But the “best dog” shows up for the danger, too. Show up for hard conversations, difficult tasks, and those painful moments. The kind of leader who always delegates or evades the hard stuff is a pretender.”
Greg Morse: Artificial Preaching: The Temptation of AI
“Joshua didn’t need to consult all military science; he needed to meet God and receive his instructions, however implausible. That is our need today. Where are God’s generals who don’t seek counsel from a computer but trust in God’s signature means of word and prayer?”
John Beeson: Why We Don't Trust Pastors
“I don’t blame Americans for not trusting pastors. We pastors have given the public plenty of reason not to trust us. This distrust isn’t contained to pastors, it casts a wide net over Christians in general. Because of the poor witness of select pastors who have been publicly exposed for their sin, we as believers have a credibility problem.”
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Kate Polski: The Loudest Voice in Motherhood
“The voice of the Lord is powerful and majestic. And when we begin to see our children through the lens of who God is and what he says, everything shifts. His ways are higher than ours. His power is unmatched. His love is beyond measure. And this God—this mighty, glorious God—is the One who created your child.”
Joanna Kimbrel: Develop a Taste for God’s Word
“If you’re not hungry for God’s Word, it’s not because you don’t need it. Have you ever noticed that if you go long enough without eating, you stop feeling hungry? You may notice other signs you need food—low energy, a headache, irritability, feeling lightheaded—but it’s easy to forget that the symptoms are due to a lack of fuel when you don’t feel hungry. It isn’t until you take a bite that your stomach wakes and you realize just how hungry you are.”
Aaron Lee: Related Works
Book reviews: The Right Faith: 1 & 2 Thessalonians by Gordon J. Keddie.
Featured This Week on SOLA Network
Episode 29: Scripture and Asian American Parenting: What Proverbs 22:6 Teaches about AAP
“Today we’re talking about Proverbs 22:6. Train up a child in the way he should go, and when he is old, they will not depart from it.”
Hannah Wang: Violet Evergarden: (Sacrificial) Love and Its Power to Empower
“We sometimes treat loving others as a responsibility, almost like another task. But God’s love is meant to be a central part of our very being, driving the way we interact with others through speech, action, and intention.”
Micah Hsu: Glimpsing God in an Unsolvable Universe
“The whole universe is a massive n-body problem, where every particle from a hydrogen atom to supergiant stars could be a body. Humans cannot even solve the motion of three bodies, much less four, or the estimated one septillion stars in the universe. But where man fails, God prevails.”
TGIF: Roundup for May 15, 2026
Thrifting to the Glory of God / HStay Human in an AI World / Problems with the Modern Identity-Formation Process / A Book That Recentered My Soul and My Sermons / Not All Asian American Teenagers Are The Same
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