SOLA Network is grateful to offer a free one-day event for church leaders thinking about the possibility of a long-term home for their church. Wednesday, August 2, at Living Hope Community Church in Brea, California, 9:45am – 12:30pm. Learn more and reserve a spot!
Save the date! “Writing the Next Chapter,” the 2024 Asian American Leadership Conference, will take place on April 23-24 in Orange County, California. More info coming soon.
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Aaron Lee, Editorial Curator
Enter to win these excellent books! Thanks to The Good Book Company for providing these books for our giveaway, in partnership with my newsletters for @diveindigdeep and FCBC Walnut.
Featuring Maria Fearing, Amy Carmichael, His Grace is Enough Board Book, The Prisoners, the Earthquake, and the Midnight Song Coloring and Activity Book, Valuable, and Reclaiming Masculinity.
Articles From Around The Web
1. Ken Midkiff: In the Modern Areopagus, 5 Billion People Are Listening
“Social media enables the gospel to travel more quickly, more anonymously (in dangerous areas), and more broadly than traditional evangelism methods.”
2. Seung-Joo Lee: Classical Ways to Demonstrate God’s Existence: Finding Act from Potency with Thomas Aquinas
“The essence of God is that by which he is absolutely the first being… God exists of himself, that is to say, not from another or of another or by another or by reason of another.”
3. Micah Rickard: Davy Chou’s Transcendent Return to Seoul Embodies the Modern Search for Identity
“Return to Seoul is about lives not lived and not by chance. It’s about the lives we live as we try to define what life means.”
Our new Books and Reviews page is your one-stop resource for all of your reading needs. It features Asian American authors and issues, book recommendations, and interviews.
Books, Podcasts, Music, And More
1. FCBC Walnut Women Podcast: Does God care what I wear?
Leslie, Alice, Vanessa, and Amy talk about their personal motivations and principles for dress. This discussion highlights topics on modesty, identity and image, cultural trends, different contexts of dress, spending and decision making, and being mindful about our witness of Christ to others.
2. TGC Glo Podcast: Exploring the Intersection of Christianity and the Arts
Blair Linne, Aixa de López, Sharon Dickens, and Soojin Park talk about how all creation, especially the arts, points us to God—the Creator himself. They discuss broadening our definition of “art,” the difference between art for the church and art from the church, how art can move us to worship the person of Christ, and more.
3. Aaron Lee: Related Works
Book reviews: Maria Fearing by K. A. Ellis, Amy Carmichael by Hunter Beless, The Gospels Hardcover by Alabaster. Listen to our TGIF playlist on Spotify. Join my Asian American Worship Leaders Facebook group.
For Father’s Day, check out our Dads & Fatherhood collection! Featured authors include Cory Ishida, Daniel K. Eng, Tom Sugimura, Larry Lin, David J. Park, and P. J. Tibayan.
Featured This Week On SOLA Network
1. Daniel K. Eng: The Chinese Christian Diaspora in Ireland: Interview with Tommy Kyaw Tun and Caleb Teo
What is it like to be a Chinese immigrant in Ireland or an Irish-born Chinese? What are churches in Ireland like? How can we support and encourage our brothers and sisters in the Emerald Isle?
2. SOLA Network: Rooted Ministry: Resources for Parents and Churches
How do we help our children to love the gospel and develop faith that lasts a lifetime? Are there specific resources for parents, youth directors, and lead pastors to help our students connect with Jesus? Our friends at Rooted Ministry are here to help. Their mission is “to equip and empower churches and parents to faithfully disciple students toward life-long faith in Jesus Christ.
3. Aaron Lee: Know Him Personally: A Book Review of “Understanding & Trusting Our Great God”
Who is God, and is he good? In Understanding & Trusting Our Great God, Tim Challies will help you know and love God more.
4. Heidi Wong: A Series of Farewells: A Review of “Past Lives”
As Christians, the concept of losing something to gain something else is familiar. Seeing a version of it played out in the cinema should provoke us to feelings if not thoughts. What are we grounded by? What is the relationship between personal agency and trust in the sovereign?
5. TGIF: Roundup for July 14, 2023
Presence and Absence in Past Lives / Why Reformed Churches Need Contextualization / Hudson Taylor / Is It Possible to Fall in Love with God through Fiction? / Technology in our Families and Churches: How to Model and Cultivate Discernment
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General disclaimer: Our link roundups are not endorsements of the positions or lives of the authors.