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TGIF: Roundup for July 8, 2022

Videos from our Asian American Leadership Conference are now appearing on YouTube! Check out keynotes from Owen Lee and Julius Kim, and an interview of Julius Kim by Steve Chang

I spoke with Clara Kim from The Center for House Church Theology. They foster and further the international publishing of pastors, church leaders, and teachers committed to the historic gospel of grace in China’s urban house churches. In case you missed it, I spoke with Ruth Chou Simons on a variety of topics regarding faith and culture.

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We thank God for TGC, SOLA, KALI, and the inaugural Asian American Leadership Conference! We’ll be adding our videos to this playlist on YouTube.


Articles From Around The Web

1.  Sam Chan: 3 Ways to Help Post-Christian Friends Understand the Gospel

“It’s when our great need for salvation is exposed that we’ll understand the necessity of Jesus’s death and resurrection as the only way back to God.”

2. John Lee: How to Have Fruitful Conversations About the Immigrant Church

“Having a productive conversation about the immigrant church requires both cultural and ecclesiological fluency.”

3. Nathan Wu: To the “Young and Inexperienced” Counselor

“The lack of shared experience only further magnifies the power and sufficiency of God’s Word to change hearts and lives.”

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Books, Podcasts, Music, And More

1. The Rise and Fall of Mars Hill Podcast: A Conversation with Tim Keller (Bonus Episode)

Mike Cosper sits down with Tim Keller for reflections on leadership, the trouble with networks, and the essential need for communion with God.

2. Juan Sanchez: 4 Necessary Traits for Next-Generation Leaders

“In his message at TGC21, Juan Sánchez speaks on God’s clear path for leadership in the church and how to find biblically qualified elders and leaders.”

3. Aaron Lee: Related Works

Book Review: The StoryChanger by David Murray. Listen to our TGIF playlist on Spotify. Join my Asian American Worship Leaders Facebook group.

Check out our International Students series, focused on connecting international students with the gospel of Jesus Christ, featuring four articles by Karisa You.


1. Faith Chang: Father, Here Is My Little, My All

“To those who want to serve God with all your being, who have given of yourselves with a burning passion for his glory and yet find your Shepherd has led you down unexpected pathways— he is, and has always been, after our hearts.”

2. Steve Chang: Leading TGC: An Interview with TGC President Julius Kim

“God has given you a very unique gift, which is your bicultural heritage and history. Now your challenge is going to be how can I steward this gift?”

3. Julius Kim: Christ’s Prophetic Office and the Christian Preacher 

Julius Kim unpacks and connects Christ’s prophetic office to the contemporary preacher as he is called to discern God’s truth, goodness, and beauty and testify to it in his words and in his deeds. You can listen to his session below.

4. Aaron Lee: Learning About The Center for House Church Theology: An Interview with Clara Kim

“In the West, we just have such a long church tradition that we start to hear the same sermons and we hear the same stories and we even have the same rituals and holidays that have evolved around Christianity just because it’s Western culture. And we’ve lost that immediacy of how shocking and how challenging the Bible really is.”

5. TGIF: Roundup for July 1, 2022

Demystifying the Bible / 9 More Things About Asian American Christianity

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