Alexander Jun gave An Invitation to Pray with AAPI Christians for our Black Brothers and Sisters. And Scott Sauls called us to have “Christlike Gentleness and Prophetic Strength” in a Polarized World. Subscribe to us on YouTube for more.
We have several outstanding resources available: Reopening the Church: Lessons Learned from 10 Asian American Congregations, our Top Anti-Racist Resources for Asian American Christians, and our Race, Racism, and Jesus playlist on YouTube.
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Articles From Around The Web
1. Geoff Chang: Missionaries Need to Know What a Church Is: A Lesson from Adoniram Judson
“The best missionaries are those who have proven themselves in the local church, who love the church, and who long to see it established among the unreached.”
2. Grace Pike: Gospel Implications For Racial Reconciliation
“Though the results of the fall may have rippled through our lives before now, we haven’t always acknowledged the waves of sin’s consequences crashing through our world.”
3. Sarah Eekhoff Zylstra: As Adoption Ages: How Parents Are Handling Teen Challenges
“In many ways, adoption wades into some of the most profound brokenness in our world.”
4. Marshall Segal: Where Will Your Twenties Take You? Six Lessons for Beginning Well
“Who we are in our twenties, for better or worse, inevitably shapes who we become, for better or worse.”
Books, Podcasts, Music, And More
1. Tim Challies: The Visual Discovery of God
“During a breakout session at The Gospel Coalition’s 2019 National Conference, Josh Byers and Tim Challies teamed up to deliver a message titled ‘How Visual Theology Displays the Truth About God.’ Never before in history has the world been so acutely aware of the importance of visual communication.”
2. John Piper: Am I Wasting My Life in a Secular Job?
“Our vocation doesn’t automatically determine our fruitfulness for Jesus. God uses all kinds of people in all kinds of places to accomplish his purposes.”
3. Aaron Lee: Miscellaneous
Book reviews: Do More Better (Student Edition) by Tim Challies, A Holy Ambition by John Piper. Our TGIF playlist is available on Spotify.
Featured This Week On SOLA Network
1. Christine Kim: Why I’m Writing About My Miscarriage
“The takeaway is that our individual sufferings can somehow bring comfort to someone. So here is an attempt to be vulnerable and share how I struggled — how I still struggle — with what happened at the beginning of this year.”
2. David J. Schuman: How to Walk with the Wise
“Our desires are misplaced and short-sighted. Instead of loving the God who offers us every good thing, we seek our own selfish ends.”
3. Scott Sauls and Kevin Yi: “Christlike Gentleness and Prophetic Strength” in a Polarized World: An Interview with Scott Sauls
“Now, especially on college campuses, students can rise up against professors for teaching ideas that hurt their feelings. This is the offensive statement: Grow up.”
4. Alexander Jun: An Invitation to Pray with AAPI Christians for our Black Brothers and Sisters: An Interview with Dr. Alexander Jun
“Partnering with other Asian American Pacific Islander Christians to repent of anti-Blackness and pray for our Black Christian brothers and sisters is important, despite and because of our theological differences.”
5. TGIF: Roundup for July 24, 2020
In case you missed it: What “Wedding Night” Videos Say about Christian Influencer Culture / The Uighurs of China: A People in Peril / YouTube reaches South Korea’s Lost Generation
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