Thank God it’s Friday
This is excerpted from my TGIF column at SOLA Network.
Articles From Around The Web
1. Connie Leung Nelson: The Multi-Directional Blessings of Intergenerational Integration
Youth minister, you can help the generations connect using the time and space present in existing ministries. Helping students and adults in your church bless one another begins with creating opportunities for them to see each other as more than ‘church strangers.’”
2. Heidi Tai: The Privilege of Choices: Love or Survival?
On first-generation immigrant sacrifices, second-generation privileges, and third-generation blessings.
3. John Lee: The Key to Companionship for Singles
There’s no such thing as selfish singleness in the mature Christian life.
Books, Podcasts, Music, And More
1. Esther Liu: How do I navigate a painful breakup?
Whatever joy and goodness you experienced in that relationship was ultimately from the One who is still with you now, still caring for you now, still attending to you now, still committed to you now.
2. John Piper: The Next Generation of Missionaries
The task of missions is to take this news to all the unreached of the world, whatever the cost.
3. Aaron Lee: Related Works
Book review: Disruptive Witness by Alan Noble. Listen to our TGIF playlist on Spotify. Join my Asian American Worship Leaders Facebook group.
Featured This Week On SOLA Network
1. Rosalyn Auyeung: Biblically Honoring Your Parents: Part 1
A person’s ultimate good is that he or she would know, obey, and enjoy Christ for His glory. Therefore, to love our parents—or to seek their highest good—means to consider what they need in each moment to grow in trusting and loving Christ.
2. Rosia Li: Why We Should Love Old Books
Despite the swirl of information we are bombarded with each day, you and I can intentionally reach for the timelessly loved pieces of literature and theology that reverberate with God’s truth.
3. Matthew Fang: Illness or Invitation? Hope for Chronic Pain
Our groanings and weaknesses, far from being meaningless, become the stage upon which God’s strength is most powerfully displayed.
4. TGIF: Roundup for June 21, 2024
Bavinck Warned that Without Christianity, Racism and Nationalism Thrive / The Local Church Is a Sandbox / Love (All) Your Neighbors / Women, Cultivate Your Leading and Teaching Gifts / Walking Alongside Kids Living in Fear Post-Trauma
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