Thank God it’s Friday
This is excerpted from my TGIF column at SOLA Network.
ARTICLES FROM AROUND THE WEB
Dan Cruver: Engaged but Not Alarmed: Reading the News with Hope
“Don’t merely consume the news. Read it beneath the lordship of Christ. Bring the world’s problems to him. Let his cosmic reign guard your heart. When the headlines suggest the world is coming apart, remember what God has already told us: The headlines are not ultimate. Christ is. Our Father is summing up all things in him.”
Sarah Eekhoff Zylstra: ‘I Wouldn’t Change Anything’: The Pain and Blessing of Hard Adoptions
“I am grateful for the suffering. I always cringe when I say that. But I know things about God’s character—depths of his grace and mercy and compassion—I never would have known otherwise.”
Hayden Nesbit: Saying ‘Here I Am’ in the Digital Age
“We must pray for hearts that desire not a fragile, fleeting sense of self that must be recreated each day while we await validation via notifications, but one that longs to join the mission of the Triune God to bring flourishing to every good and beautiful place including where you are.”
NEWSLETTERS, BOOKS, MEDIA, AND MORE
Lisa LaGeorge: A Rabbit, a Dryer, and a Pastor’s Wisdom
“Our God’s presence and our engagement with his family, the church, emphasizes the abundance we have in Christ instead of our perceived deficits. These relationships encourage all believers—single or married—to view life through the lens of gospel faithfulness and eternal investment.”
“However much those accountings might be helpful to understand, a deeper reckoning with reality—a deeper truth—is needed. It is not found in the structures and systems of the world but in the mystical and mysterious inbreaking of heaven, through prayer, the Lord’s Supper, baptism, and the foolhardy preaching of the word of God.”
Aaron Lee: Related Works
Substack: Marriage Challenges, Preaching Challenges. Book review: Brave Faith for Hard Things by Michele Howe. Listen to our TGIF playlist on Spotify. Join my Asian American Worship Leaders Facebook group. Keep in touch on X and Instagram.
FEATURED THIS WEEK ON SOLA NETWORK
AA Parenting Episode 36: When Should Asian American Parents Raise Concerns?
“Healthy habits matter.”
AALC Interviews Spotlight: Aaron Chung
Find more AALC Interviews and watch our 2026 AALC Breakout Sessions, 2026 AALC Panels and Testimony and all plenary sessions.
E Chung: Word Became Flesh: the Beauty of Language Learning in Christ
“Not only does he take on flesh and our words, but he also absorbs our way of life—how we gather around tables to eat, harden our hands with work, and so on. He then infuses his ministry with this everyday knowledge, pulling from the imagery of working class humanity to vividly paint good news.”
“I preach to myself as I ask you, who is in distress in your context? In the busyness of ministry we can be overwhelmed, but the orphans and widows are not in another country. They are in our congregations and communities.”
TGIF: Roundup for August 14, 2026
Family Prayer Is Inconvenient and Worth It / AI Writing: The Day of Reckoning / The Worst Witnesses / The Exhaustion That Comes from Chasing Rest / The Difference Between a Lazy Sunday and Intentional Sabbath Rest
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