Aaron Lee

For the month of May, I will dive into the SOLA archives and feature articles specific to Asian American issues in celebration of Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month. This week, read Reversing the Generational Exodus by Hanley Liu. May is also Mental Health Awareness Month. We published What Depression…

Tim St. John

I have joy of pastoring the counseling ministry at Lighthouse Community Church in Torrance, CA. We have a team of more than 20 counselors who aim to reach struggling hearts with the hope of the Gospel. By God’s grace, our ministry is growing. More people in our church are willing to ask for help, and we’ve been…

Adrian Pei

I’ve written many times about some of the challenges of working in ministry. But out of everything, perhaps the hardest of all is how ministry changes friendships and relationships. Maybe we’ve all been there at one point or another – we’re about to speak in public, and nerves overtake us. Our palms are sweaty, our stomach is…

Tony Thomas

In this previous article called “Two Conversations on Ethnicity in the Local Church", I proposed that we need a lot more “nuance” than we currently have in thinking and talking about ethnicity inside the local church. And the article sought to model that one of the best ways to begin understanding one another is through healthy…

Anonymous

I’ve had struggles with depression for much of my adult life. For me, it comes and goes. There are just times when I feel overwhelming sadness or irritation. Sometimes it’s triggered by an event that hurts my feelings, but other times it comes without any apparent trigger. I’ve received counseling, and I’ve been on…

Aaron Lee

For the month of May, I will dive into the SOLA archives and feature articles specific to Asian American issues in celebration of Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month. This week, read Why Most Chinese American Christians Are Conservative Evangelicals by Andrew Ong. Fitting with May also being Mental…

Zack Bolen

When I was a young boy, I was really fascinated with songwriting. Music was just a really big part of my life. So I would go to church and I would listen to music. I was always fascinated with an older lady who played the organ, and I was amazed by the way she would move her feet. We had another guy who led the singing…

Vivian Lee Mun

Christians can often divorce their spiritual lives from their day-to-day lives and professions. But we believe that God wants us to use our careers and talents to impact the world for His Kingdom, whether we work in technology, education, or the local coffee shop. Today, we are sharing an interview that SOLA did with…

Eddie Byun

The local church has an important role to play in terms of effective partnership with the global missions work that God desires to see happen. There's a few things we can do in particular. One is to create a strong sending culture within our local church body in terms of teaching on the importance of a global missions and the…

Tim St. John

When life hurts, we want to move away from it. A job that drains you of energy, time, and relationships hurts. The thought of the stress and long hours at work makes us just want to take sick days and stay in bed. A nagging sinful desire that will not go away hurts. We can easily become confused or frustrated with ourselves and…

Aaron Lee

For the month of May, I will dive into the SOLA archives and feature articles specific to Asian American issues in celebration of Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month. This week, in anticipation of Mother’s Day, read A Better Understanding of Our Parent’s Church by James H. Lee. In light of May also being Mental…

Ray Causly

The Asian American church should be aware of some potential downfalls that move us away from a Gospel orientation. Culture. A lot of the reasons why Asian churches began in America was to maintain culture or to preserve culture. Coming from an immigrant context, you have a situation where you don't know the…

Alexander Jun

I want to begin by asking what is colorblind ideology or colorblind theology? Because I attend a Korean church or a Korean-American church that worships in English, I've had white brothers and sisters say to me, for example, “Alex, why do you go to a Korean church? We should all be the same.” My natural response is…

Aaron Lee

For the next five weeks, I will dive into the SOLA archives and feature articles specific to Asian American issues in celebration of Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month. This week, read or watch Pastor Harold Kim answer this question: How Can Asian-Americans Recognize and Help Dismantle Racism to Better…

Hanley Liu

There are so many things that can be said, but I’ll sum it up in three major categories. The first commitment is a commitment to make the Gospel visible. So each time you're talking about conversions, you're talking about committing to reconciliation, committing to unity in the church, and committing to caring for the people…

Christopher Y. Kim

Do you feel lonely? If so, you’re not alone. Despite our ability to share our day-to-day lives through Facebook timelines and Instagram stories, the quality of many relationships have suffered. The Barna Group reported in 2017 that one in five adults regularly feels lonely. A 2018 survey by health insurer Cigna found that “nearly…

Suzette Magaña & Roy Kim

The beauty of where we are now when it comes to mental health is the church and the mental health community professionals have been talking and have been having conversations now for 20 or 30 years. We have Dobson and we have Townsend and Cloud. We have these people who have been writing about…

Michael Agapito

Have you ever opened your front door to see sharply dressed individuals, tracts in their hands, ready to tell you all about “Jehovah?” These people, known as “Jehovah’s Witnesses,” believe that Jesus is the first and greatest created being who is “like God” or “similar to God.” Anything greater than that, they claim, is tantamount…

Min Chung

The 3 misconceptions about the call of God have to do with who, what, and why. Who: Many people have the misconception that only full-time pastors or missionaries or ministers are called by God. But according to Ephesians 4:1, every Christian has to live worthy of their calling. So every Christian is called by God. If…

Aaron Lee

Patreeya Prasertvit concluded her eight-article Holy Week series on Monday. Read how Easter is not just a date on the calendar, but how the resurrection radically changes our lives. My feature recommendation for you this week is Art and the Empty Tomb: 3 Lessons for our Creative Lives from Luke 24. Published on the Lexham…

Young W. Yi

When I was younger, I came across a pair of verses in the Bible that changed the way I perceived the instructions provided by my parents. Proverbs 1:8-9 says, “Listen, my son, to your father’s instruction, and don’t reject your mother’s teaching, for they will be a garland of favor on your head and pendants around your…

Jeremy Treat

A lot of people see conviction and being relevant to the community as being in opposition, as if you have to give one to have the other. But I don't think that's the case at all. A lot of the times it comes from a wrong understanding of what contextualizing really is. A lot of people think that you've got to adapt the gospel…

Justin C. Ha

Like many post-graduates, I struggled to discover what career God wanted me to pursue – I still do. I invested five years in an accounting program. Upon graduating, my peers accepted offers from prestigious accounting firms. I chose to wander off that path. I declined my offer and took a job opportunity at a major studio in…

Kim Kira

One of the reasons that gospel-centered understanding of marriage informs our dating is because we can go into our dating relationships being pretty selfish. We focus on ourselves — What does it mean to me? How does make me feel? What do we look like together? But if we have a big understanding of marriage that drives…

Aaron Lee

SOLA Contributor Patreeya Prasertvit has written powerful devotions to take us through Easter. Start with the first on our website and see the work of Jesus and the power of the cross. Presented during Evangelical Press Association’s 2019 convention, the Higher Goals awards honor the best work done in specific categories…

Harold Kim

We do live in a very broken, fallen world. More often than intellectual or theological excuses or objections against the Gospel, more than theological or intellectual objections against the church, I have found so often people who have stories of pain, stories where they were turned off, and they just don't want anything…