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TGIF: Roundup for June 18, 2021

This Father’s Day weekend, view our new collection on Dads and Fatherhood. These articles seek to honor our earthly fathers while ultimately pointing us towards our Heavenly Father.

In case you missed it, last week we finished sharing our content from SOLA Conference 2021. This year’s conference theme was “Witness,” and we hoped to equip the local church to be a compelling witness despite our divisive and divided society and culture. All videos and transcripts are available to revisit for free on our website.

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Articles From Around The Web

1. Tom Lin: American Christians Must Humbly Look to Global Church for Solutions to Decline

“Although we in the West also believe in God’s supernatural activity, it is observably true that it has little impact on most of our daily lives.”

2. Sara Barratt: Graduate, Think About Your Purpose, Not Your Plan

“Dear grad, there’s a great big world in front of you. May your goal not be to gain this earthly, temporal world (and in doing so lose your soul), but to win the world for God’s eternal glory and to surrender your life for the sake of the gospel.”

3. Steven Lee: Anti-Porn Is Not Enough

“The purity culture movement went awry whenever it became more about purity than it was about God.”


Books, Podcasts, Music, And More

1. Crossway: The Promise: The Amazing Story of Our Long-Awaited Savior (Audiobook)

The birth of Jesus was the fulfillment of a promise—a promise made by God to humanity from the very beginning. Starting with Genesis, pastor Jason Helopoulos provides kids ages 6–12 with a simple yet thorough overview of the development of this promise through the characters who make up the story of the Bible.

2. DesiringGod: The Disabled Wife and the Proverbs 31 Woman

God expects faithfulness of all his people. But faithfulness for one Christian may look far different than faithfulness for another Christian.

3. Aaron Lee: Related Works

Book reviews: Your Old Testament Sermon Needs to Get Saved by David M. King, Providence by John Piper. Like our TGIF playlist on Spotify. Join my Asian American Worship Leaders Facebook group.


Featured This Week On SOLA Network

1. Heidi Wong: Come Back to Church

“To skirt meeting others face to face will certainly help to avoid certain inconveniences, yet in perpetuity, it will rob you.”

2. Larry Lin: Watching Bluey as an Asian American Father

“Let’s make it our aim to show our kids how amazing our heavenly Father is.”

3. Steve S. Chang: Asian-American Church Leaders’ Response to the Rise in Anti-Asian Hate

“We should not simply hope for change or wait for others to change, but be willing to be the catalyst for change ourselves.”

4. David J. Park: One Pastor’s Journey to Joy & Freedom Through Understanding True Fatherhood and Sonship

“God’s love for me was more than enough regardless of what I do or accomplish in ministry.”

5. TGIF: Roundup for June 11, 2021

Learning to Grieve Anti-Asian Racism as an Asian American / The Case for Analog Church in a Digital World / Rethinking Productivity and Love in Pregnancy

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