Read all the way through for a new book bundle giveaway, our book reviews collection, and our featured author Heidi Tai!
We published Pastor Cory Ishida’s keynote and interview this week alongside new articles by Karisa You on the prayer life of George Muller and Alice Kim on redeeming our stories and blessing our pain.
Pastor Harold Kim’s Asian American Leadership Conference message was featured this week at The Gospel Coalition: Pastor, When You Want to Quit, Preach to Yourself. Find more from the AALC on YouTube.
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We’re hosting a giveaway for a physical copy of Draw Near by Sophie Killingley, Mark For You by Jason Meyer, and Dream Small by Seth Lewis. Special thanks to The Good Book Company for providing our giveaway, presented in partnership with my newsletters for @diveindigdeep and FCBC Walnut.
Articles From Around The Web
1. House Church Theology: What is the House Church?
“The ‘house church’ (家庭教会, jiating jiaohiu) is a generalized term used to describe China’s unregistered churches which do not submit to the religious oversight of the government-sanctioned church.” Our friends at House Church Theology have a new website!
Related: Learning About The Center for House Church Theology: An Interview with Clara Kim by Aaron Lee
2. Lloyd Kim: Did the Pandemic Open Doors? Effects of COVID on Missions
“There is a large overlap between the world’s poor and those who are unreached and unengaged by the gospel.”
Related: The Present and Future of the Immigrant Church: An Interview with John J. Oh by Daniel K. Eng
Heidi Tai is an Asian Australian writer, committed to sharing honest words from a hope-filled heart. Check out our Heidi Tai article collection.
Books, Podcasts, Music, And More
1. Ruth Chou Simons: Social Sanity Book Club Chapter 9: Posting Well
“Christian influencer Ruth Chou Simons talks to Sarah Eekhoff Zylstra about the positive and negative aspects of having a larger online voice.”
Related: Telling Her Own Story: An Interview with Ruth Chou Simons by Aaron Lee
2. Walnut Women Podcast: Overcoming Mom Guilt: Grace for the Imperfect Mom
Katy, Alice, Meryl, and Leslie from FCBC Walnut discuss how the gospel of grace frees the imperfect mom to humbly embrace her weaknesses so that she can boast in God’s power.
Related: No, I’m Not a Pro: How to Parent our Children’s Souls by Faith Chang
3. Asian American Worship Leaders: Grace Alone
Grace Alone (Good Stewards Church) / My Jesus I Love Thee (Citizens Church) / Yet Not I (Zoe Church OC) / A Thousand Hallelujahs (NewStory Church) / Jesus Paid it All (All Nations Community Church) / This is Amazing Grace (Living Hope Community Church)
4. Aaron Lee: Related Works
Book Reviews: Songs of Suffering by Joni Eareckson Tada, God Counts (children’s book) by Irene Sun, Psalm 23: A Colors Primer (children’s book) by Catechesis Books. Listen to our TGIF playlist on Spotify. Join my Asian American Worship Leaders Facebook group.
Check out our Book Reviews for reading recommendations, with an emphasis on Asian American authors.
Featured This Week On SOLA Network
1. Alice Kim: Retelling My Story, and Throwing a Party
“I knew all too well that being female in my Korean American home meant not being chosen. The unspoken but implied understanding was that men are like heaven or the sky and women the earth or the ground. This principle persisted, neither challenged or questioned.”
2. Karisa You: Bread for 100,000 Children: The Prayer Life of George Muller
“How does one man care for ten thousand orphans and raise millions of dollars (in today’s currency) without asking for a single donation or ever going into debt? By taking God seriously on His word in Matthew 7:7—ask and it will be given to you.”
3. Cory Ishida: The Way of a King
“Jesus was a manufacturer of furniture. He was a maker of disciples. He was a miracle worker. But he was also a king. Pastor Cory shared examples of kingship from his 42 years of senior pastoral ministry.”
4. TGIF: Roundup for September 2, 2022
When Watering, Watching, and Waiting Feel Far Too Slow / Injustice Reveals Idolatry / I’m a Gen Zer, and I Believe the Bible Is Inerrant
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