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 P&R Publishers for providing these books for our giveaway, in partnership with my newsletters for @diveindigdeep and FCBC Walnut.
- Reformed Theology: Jonathan Master writes a well-rounded and concise overview. Learn what makes Reformed theology distinctive and how its specific doctrines apply to everyday life.
- When People Are Big and God is Small: Edward Welch helps you discover a fear of the Lord that, in Christ, is filled with gratitude, love, and devotion—freeing you to need others less and love them more.
Articles From Around The Web
1. Rooted: The SOLA Network: A Resource for Parents and Youth Pastors
Thanks to our friends at Rooted for sharing about us!
2. Peter Lee: Deuteronomy for the Asian American Christian: Intro (Part 1 of 8)
“The displacement that Asian Americans experience, especially those acculturated into western norms, is not unlike God’s people in these scenarios.”
3. Heidi Wong: “Who Lives, Who Dies, Who Tells Your Story?”
“The Bible is a mosaic of God’s grand narrative for his people, pointing them to the person and work of his son.”
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. As in Heaven Podcast: The Next Generation: Forming Middle and High School Students for Lifelong Faith
Cameron Cole shares practical steps that parents and church leaders can take toward disciplining and instilling a love for the local church and an affection for the gospel among this crucial age range.
2. TGC Glo Podcast: Comforting and Empowering the Poor Through Christlike Love
Blair Linne, Aixa de López, Sharon Dickens, and Soojin Park discuss how believers and church leaders can provide mercy ministry that’s effective, biblical, loving, and sustainable — including a brief discussion on relational poverty in the Korean American community.
3. Aaron Lee: Related Works
Book Reviews: The Heart in Pilgrimage by Leland Ryken, The Character of Christ by Jonathan Landry Cruse, The Book of Daniel 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. Aaron Lee: Preaching that Pleases God: Three Lessons I’ve Learned as a Beginner Preacher
“While I might feel foolish as a beginner preacher, I’m learning to proclaim the seemingly foolishness of the gospel.”
2. E.L Sherene Joseph: Rethinking Hospitality in Our Churches
“Radical hospitality can lead to a radical community.”
3. Steven Chin: Four Sustaining Principles: Letters to a Young Pastor at a Multilingual Church
“May the Lord bless you to minister with your overseas-born senior pastor in unity as you support him, as you serve with humility, and as you wait upon the Lord in practice and in prayer.”
4. Gloria Fanchiang: A Brief History of Asian American Worship Music
“I hope this brief and incomplete history of Asian American worship music encourages more Asian Americans to try their hand at writing their own unique contextualized worship songs, organizing our communities, and researching and building upon the work of those who have come before us.”
5. TGIF: Roundup for June 23, 2023
Imagine Dragons More Biblically / Young Men with Holy Habits / Motherhood Isn’t Martyrdom / All the Compassions of All the Tender Fathers / Fulfilling the Biblical Mandate to Care for Orphans and Widows
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General disclaimer: Our link roundups are not endorsements of the positions or lives of the authors.