Thank God it’s Friday
This is excerpted from my TGIF column at SOLA Network.
ARTICLES FROM AROUND THE WEB
Steven Lee: The Church That Fights for Life
“Pray for the church to disciple its members to value and cherish all life. Pray for a world where pregnancy centers have abundant resources to serve their communities, where foster care lists disappear because Christians rise up, and where the gospel takes root more and more within every heart and mind.”
Yi Ning Chiu: Sermon in a lost language
“Christ would not be appreciated using human frameworks. If we tried, we would only find him a cipher, an affront. Christ’s meaning would emerge only when we allowed our existing tools for interpretation to be destroyed. I think my uncle provoked me in the way Isaiah provoked his hearers.”
Heidi Tai: From Refugee & Immigrant Inferiority to Confidence in Christ
“The impact of church inclusiveness on my refugee immigrant family + my Great Uncle's conversion at the age of 84.”
NEWSLETTERS, BOOKS, MEDIA, AND MORE
Joel Kim: What God Promises to Do Through Preaching: Joel Kim on Romans 10 and WLC 155
“In an age of skepticism and institutional distrust, what is the role of preaching? Joel Kim, President of Westminster Seminary California, draws on Westminster Larger Catechism 155 and Romans 10, to demonstrate why preaching remains God's revealed way of making salvation known to the world.”
Chen Xie: What Does It Mean to “Apply” the Bible?
“Yes, we must be faithful and treat God’s words with fear. But in another sense, we do not need to fear. Application is simply about trust and obedience: We find out what God is doing with these words and then apply them by responding obediently.”
Aaron Lee: Related Works
Substack: Personal Prayer: Two Questions to Guard Your Heart. Book Review: Come Thou Fount of Every Blessing: A Liturgy of Daily Worship from the Psalms by Jonathan Gibson. 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
“In this new series from the Asian American Parenting Podcast, we explore issues of raising teenagers from the parents’ perspective and the impact issues of parenting has on them. This first episode explores co-parenting teenagers and when parents have disagreements in raising teenagers.”
AALC Interviews Spotlight: N. Gray Sutanto
Find more AALC Interviews and watch our 2026 AALC Breakout Sessions, 2026 AALC Panels and Testimony and all plenary sessions.
Karis Cho: Who Will Pray for the Next Generation?
“Too often, we relegate prayer to being the prelude to “real action.” But prayer is important work – it’s our offering unto the Lord, the firstfruits of our labor.”
Andy Tschong: Why Every Asian American Church Should Become an Antioch Church
“The greatest challenge facing Asian American churches is not primarily cultural but theological – more specifically, a question of ecclesiological identity. Church leaders must first ask, Who has God called us to be?”
TGIF: Roundup for August 28, 2026
Christian, Your Suffering Isn’t Pointless / Pastoral Fortitude: Courage in the Ministry of Word and Prayer / Love That Makes Room: Serving Families with Disabilities / Trustworthy Truth Tellers / Live at Peace with Your Pastors
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