Thank God it’s Friday
This is excerpted from my TGIF column at SOLA Network.
Articles From Around The Web
Connie Leung Nelson: When Your Teenager Doesn’t Feel a Sense of Belonging at Church
“Parents, let’s put our hope for our kids’ spiritual longevity not in their ‘finding their community’ but in Jesus. He promises to complete the work he began in them.”
N. Gray Sutanto: Orthodox Yet Modern: Herman Bavinck as Cultural Apologist
“Christianity can engage any culture, any philosophy, and any time period because the gospel subverts and fulfills the desires of the human heart.”
Bobby Scott: Help Your Wife Thrive Through Motherhood
“Young husbands, your wife needs you to know something: While it is her great blessing and joy to be a mom, often it is also her heaviest burden. You need to know that in order to husband her well in this season of your marriage.”
Books, Podcasts, Music, And More
Yi Ning Chiu: Fifteen years married
“I think about what Christ offered with thirty years of ordinary life, as a man sharply aware of the crises around him and his own rapidly elapsing time on earth, still patiently rendering his attention to the people before him.”
“While not all pastors aspire to be published authors, all pastors should seek to communicate clearly and compellingly, including in their writing. God has chosen to use the written word to communicate truth in ways that are powerful and beautiful.”
Aaron Lee: Related Works
Book reviews: Battling Unbelief by John Piper, Daddy, How Much Do You Love Me? By Matt Markins. 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
Asian American Parenting Podcast: Episode 31: Scripture and AAP: What Psalm 127:3 Teaches About AAP
“In this final episode of the mini-series on what Scripture teaches about Asian American parenting, Danny and Monica look at Psalm 127:3 in relation to the Confucian upbringing that many Asian American parents were brought up within.”
SOLA Network: AALC 2026 Recap Video
We are pleased to present to you our 2026 Asian American Leadership Conference recap video! The event was hosted at Living Hope Community Church on April 28-29, 2026. Be on the lookout for more reflections, podcasts, and video clips as well as full-session uploads.
Aaron Lee: Care for the Bride of Christ: A Book Review of After Church Hurt
“Written with sensitivity and practical clarity, After Church Hurt equips and comforts. It helped me with my own hurts, something that I have kept hidden, but am now better healing from. I am also more deeply resolved to care for Christ’s sheep.”
Chris D. Lee: The Waiting You Didn’t Choose, But Might Need
“Faith is easy when answers come quickly, but it is refined when they don’t. Waiting stretches us. It exposes our assumptions. It reveals how much we rely on timelines instead of trust. But it also deepens our dependence on God in ways that immediate answers never could.”
TGIF: Roundup for May 29, 2026
Why China’s Persecuted Christians View Western Advocates with Skepticism / Can Agentic AI Pastor Your Church? / Your Soul Needs Better News: Three Stories of the Gospel’s Advance / Mere Orthodoxy has a new website. / IVP announced that The Old Testament in Color is in the works!
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