Speaker: Enoch Liao

Description: In 2 Timothy, the Apostle Paul instructs Timothy about preaching sound doctrine, fleeing temptation, and living in the power of the Spirit. What comes next? Practical instruction on working well with others for the sake of the Kingdom. We will consider ways a Christ-follower proves to be a worker approved by God in the context of local church ministry.

0:00 Intro

5:00 The Lord’s Servant

8:20 The distinguishing trait of the Lord’s Servant

9:50 What is the distinguishing trait and why is it such a big deal?

19:20 What are the practical steps to address conflict?

38:50 How is it possible to address conflict in a Christ-like way?

Watch the video on YouTube:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A8Zz_uONuBg&list=PLAoJ5wNGQQE0dVTY8DWUZRb0XcTc8crkK&index=4&pp=gAQBiAQB

Speaker: Harold Kim

Description: The more I understand and articulate my story of increasing weakness, the better I understand, appreciate and articulate the story of apostle Paul’s life and gospel ministry. What does it really mean for the power of God to be “made perfect in weakness”? How can we rest in this power?

0:00 Intro

5:23 The Pendulum

22:37 The Thorn

32:30 The Paradox

Watch the video on YouTube:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GjvWJEklAzw&list=PLAoJ5wNGQQE0dVTY8DWUZRb0XcTc8crkK&index=3&pp=gAQBiAQB

Faith Chang and David Larry Kim read excerpts from their respective chapters in A Letter to the Asian American Church at the 2024 Asian American Leadership Conference.

Watch the video on YouTube:

https://youtu.be/g1mq1vktFxY?feature=shared

In this interview, Aaron Lee sits down with Daniel K. Eng to discuss the makings of The Greek New Testament: Guided Annotating Edition. Daniel highlights the genesis of the book idea, and the various uses it would serve for a beginner Greek student as well as someone who wants to maintain the Greek they’ve already learned.

In this interview, Aaron Lee speaks with Faith Chang, one of SOLA’s editorial board members as well as a newly published author. They discuss the premise of and journey to publishing Peace Over Perfection: Enjoying a Good God When You Feel You’re Never Good Enough.

00:00 Introduction to Faith and her book

02:05 The beginnings of the book

06:13 Life is not a math equation

11:26 God loves sinners, not perfect people

16:39 Prayer poems and Faith's prayer for the book

Full transcript:

https://sola.network/article/peace-over-perfection-an-interview-with-faith-chang/

Shownotes:

https://www.thegoodbook.com/peace-over-perfection

https://sola.network/article/peace-over-perfection-book-review/

https://sola.network/article/keeping-heart-interview/

https://sola.network/article/author/faithchang/

https://faithchang.substack.com/

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At our upcoming AALC conference later in April, we will be giving away copies of Writing a Letter to the Asian American Church. This book wouldn’t have been made possible without Pastor Steve Chang of Living Hope Community Church (SOLA Council Chairman) and Aaron Lee (SOLA Editorial Curator). Aaron and Steve discuss the story behind how the book idea began, and how it all came together.

Full transcript:

https://sola.network/article/a-letter-to-the-asian-american-church-interview/

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In this interview, Daniel K. Eng chats with Pastor Steven Siu of Chinese Evangelical Church of San Diego about exploring the call into vocational ministry. Along with personal stories as well as stories of those at his church, Pastor Steven highlights the Render West Coast conference coming up in May. This conference is for those who are contemplating the potential of entering into full-time ministry, seeking to affirm God’s calling for full-time ministry, or are already attending seminary. Read or listen on to learn more.

00:00 Introduction

00:57 What have you observed about Asian Americans aspiring to vocational ministry?

05:41 Why do you think people don’t consider vocational ministry?

08:00 Render West Coast

14:38 Encouragement for those considering full time ministry

Full transcript:

https://sola.network/article/considering-vocational-ministry-interview/

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In this interview, Aaron Lee sits down with Daniel K. Eng to discuss the genesis and offerings of a new program he is leading called, “Asian American Ministry Formation”. This program will focus on leadership formation, ministry models to reach Asian Americans, and contextualization.

00:00 Asian American Ministry Formation

Watch the video on YouTube:

⁠https://youtu.be/rIZ9NLr6W0U⁠

How can you have confidence in the trustworthiness of the Word? What role does history have in our interaction with the Bible? In this episode of our podcast, Aaron speaks with Susan C. Lim to discuss these questions and many more as they relate to her new book, Light of the Word.

0:00 - Intro

1:48 - Susan's History Background

3:04 - How Susan's Testimony Intersects with her background as a Historian

5:33 - Examples of ancient history's parallels with the Bible

7:50 - Writing for accessibility

9:37 - Does History Contradict the Bible?

12:14 - Is the Bible circular in its reasoning that it's God's word?

14:30 - Encouragement for Pastors

18:37 - Encouragement for those who struggle with doubting God's word

Watch on YouTube:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3iLZKXvJ_ro

Shownotes:

https://sola.network/article/light-of-the-word-interview/

https://sola.network/article/light-of-the-word-book-review/

https://sola.network/books-reviews/

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How have churches been affected by “the great dechurching?” How can we help people stay connected to the local church? And, just as important, how does the great dechurching affect immigrant and Asian American churches?

Michael Graham, co-author of the book The Great Dechurching, spoke to SOLA Council President Steve Chang and SOLA Editorial Board member Kevin Yi about the phenomenon of dechurching.

His findings on Asian Americans leaving the church were particularly alarming:

“Because Asian American dechurching is is worse than any other ethnicity. The dechuching that's going on there is twice the rate of, of those who are Hispanic and Latino. And I think 40 or 50% faster than those who are Anglo or African American.”

But Graham was also quick to point out that it was hard to draw further statistical conclusions about Asian Americans leaving the church, simply because there isn’t a lot of data about Asian American Christians.

Other topics they discuss include:

Declining religious affiliation among Asian Americans

Church attendance and pastoral care for congregants who are mobile and don’t stay in one church their whole lives

Assisting newcomers connect with the church

Parental influence on church attendance

Telling a better story

We hope that this conversation helps all Christians to think about how we can better study the Asian American church. We also hope it will encourage pastors to think about how to serve their congregations to prevent dechurching and help former members to return and find true community.

Video and article:

https://sola.network/article/asian-american-christians-and-the-great-dechurching-interview/

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