Read all the way through for a new book giveaway, our book reviews collection, and our featured author Daniel K. Eng!
This week was filled with interviews! From the AALC, Daniel K. Eng spoke on Supporting Asian Americans Academics in Seminary and Owen Y. Lee discussed The Need for Ethnic-Specific Ministries. I reviewed Even If by Mitchel Lee, so we reshared his video on Finding Faith.
In case you missed it, I asked Karisa You to read her beautiful article, and you can hear her voice in our new video: The Light of the World: How Jesus is Reaching International Students. Find more article reads on YouTube.
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Articles From Around The Web
1. Renee Zou: Type A and Christian
“Our desire for efficiency, meeting targets and smashing personal goals must be subject to God’s priority for us to love.”
Related: Rethinking Productivity and Love in Pregnancy by Heidi Tai
2. Sean Chen: Do Chinese Worship Songs Sound Too Much Like Pop Hits?
Five praise music songwriters on how they handle criticism, work together, and seek to reach Gen Z through their work.
Related: Sing To Him A New Song: 3 Reasons Why You Should Write Your Own Hymns by Aaron Lee
3. Tim Challies: Shaken to Bear Fruit: What Has Come from Losing a Son
“The God who is sovereign over all things may lead us into times and contexts that are deeply painful.”
Related: 5 Ways To Show Compassion To Those Who Are Grieving by Sarah Kim
Daniel K. Eng is a husband, dad, pastor, teacher, and follower of Jesus the King. He is Assistant Professor of New Testament at Western Seminary. See our article collection by Daniel K. Eng!
Books, Podcasts, Music, And More
1. 9Marks: Episode 1: On the Reasons We Started Missions Talk
In this inaugural episode of Missions Talk, Jonathan Leeman and Mark Dever chat with Mack Stiles and Ryan Robertson about why conversations about ecclesiology are so necessary in the missions world.
2. Asian American Worship Leaders: Where the Spirit of the Lord Is (NewStory Church)
Where the Spirit of the Lord Is (NewStory Church) / I Will Glory in My Redeemer (Lighthouse Community Church) / Glorious Christ (Good Stewards Church) / My Jesus, I Love Thee (Christ Central Presbyterian Church) / A Thousand Hallelujahs (Bethel Grace Church)
3. Aaron Lee: Related Works
Book Reviews: Getting the Message by Dan Doriani, Celebrities for Jesus by Katelyn Beaty, With All Your Heart by Christine Hoover. 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. Aaron Lee: The Need for Ethnic-Specific Ministries: An Interview with Owen Y. Lee
How Asian American pastors should seek leadership roles, being thankful for immigrant churches that came before us, and ways in which ethnic-specific churches excel.
2. Moses Y. Lee: Finding Faith in the “Even If”: An Interview with Pastor and Author Mitchel Lee
“This Even If book has a message that God has been writing in my heart for about 19 years. Like most things, God birthed this thing out of great pain, great disappointment, and I would even say disillusionment and a place of that wilderness where I thought I was done ministry-wise. I had to come to grips with who I believed God to be, even when my life didn’t really show it.”
3. Aaron Lee: Trust God in Trials: A Book Review of “Even If”
How can you trust God in trials? In Even If, Mitchel Lee talks us through trusting God when life disappoints, overwhelms, or just doesn’t make sense.
4. Hannah Chao: Supporting Asian Americans Academics in Seminary: An Interview with Daniel K. Eng
Understanding your own cultural lens and personal experiences when viewing Scripture, reframing the conversation around pastoral vocation , and the challenges of Bible illiteracy.
5. TGIF: Roundup for September 23, 2022
Why We Care / At Gracepoint Ministries, ‘Whole-Life Discipleship’ Took Its Toll / Jesus Is Not Ashamed of Those Who Are Overlooked: The Story of Bartimaeus / Beautiful People Don’t Just Happen
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