2015 National College Training—Update 1

Praise the Lord for a great beginning to the 2015 National College Training! Yesterday, 1,697 college-age saints and serving ones arrived at the University of Illinois in Champaign-Urbana in spirit on the Lord’s Day and registered for the 2015 National College Training. Those who drove and those who flew to the college training had a…

2015 Summer Training Fellowship – The Word of God Will Preserve Us

Your word is a lamp to my feet and a light to my path. – Psalm 119:105 What do we do when certain things in the world situation contradict the Word of God? In this fellowship Brother Minoru offers a very balanced word about living in today’s age. We must realize that as Christians, God…

Podcast #34 – The China Inland Mission

Hudson Taylor’s work in the interior of China came to be known as the China Inland Mission. In this podcast we take a look at how this labor came to be and why it proved to be so enduring. We’ll see how the life Hudson Taylor lived shaped the foundation and mission of the China…

Podcast #71 – A Pattern to the Believers in Word (1)

Nothing is more convincing than a pattern. I Timothy 4:12 is the Apostle Paul’s charge to a young Timothy to be a pattern to the believers in word, conduct, love, faith, and purity. In this week’s Flee and Pursue Podcast, we look at what it means to be a pattern in word-in what we speak…

A Call to Prayer for the 2015 National College Training

Through the Lord’s leading and much fellowship and prayer, from June 1st through June 30th we will dedicate fifteen hours a day to pray in view of this summer’s National College Training. The Lord’s blessing on this time depends on our prayer, and we hope that each one of us will participate.

Podcast #33 – Serving with Companions

Hudson Taylor is generally credited with opening the interior of China to the gospel, but he did not do it alone. He needed others to serve with. In this podcast we take a look at some of the companions who the Lord provided during his years of labor, including the most important–his wife, Maria Dryer….

Podcast #22 – Be Inoculated Against the Enemy’s Stratagems

Persecution is the background of the New Testament. 2 Timothy 3:12 tells us that all who desire to live a godly life in Christ Jesus will be persecuted. It’s not a question of if we will encounter opposition in our Christian life but when we will encounter it. In this podcast we take a look…

Living for the Will of God

“You are worthy, our Lord and God, to receive the glory and the honor and the power, for You have created all things, and because of Your will they were, and were created.” – Revelation 4:11 Our life is governed by certain fundamental decisions that we make in the course of our human life. One…

Podcast #70 – Five Statuses of the Believers (2)

We are priests of the gospel of God and members of the Body of Christ. These may sound like very high and impractical statuses, but in this podcast we show just how practical these statuses can be in our experience. Do we know how to bear the names of our friends to God? Do we…

The Gospel of the Kingdom

“Man is the meaning of the universe. Christ is the meaning of human life. The church is the expression of Christ and is our real family life. Go therefore and disciple all the nations.” – Matthew 24:14 Download: 01. The Gospel of the Kingdom 02. The Divine Life and the Kingdom 03. The Exercise and Reward…

Podcast #32 – Taking the Gospel to the Interior of China

Taking the gospel into the interior of China in the 19th Century was a real challenge. Almost all missionary work in the mid 1800’s was consigned to the coasts of China, where there was easy access to ports and protection offered from troops stationed in those cities. The interior of China held many unknowns for…

Podcast #21 – Honor the Church

Ephesians 5:25 tells us that Christ loved the church and gave Himself up for her. In time, this same feeling that Christ has toward the church should also become our feeling. In reality, to honor the church is to honor the Head and the Body. In this podcast we see what it means to honor…

1995 College Training – Crystallization Study of the Song of Songs

Ecclesiastes sums up man’s life on earth as vanity of vanities, but this is only half of the story. The Song of Songs shows us that when a person believes he goes from vanity of vanities to satisfaction of satisfactions. This college training, given in 1995 following the Crystallization Study of the Song of Songs,…

Podcast #69 – Five Statuses of the Believers

You are an ambassador of Christ. You are the good seed. You are a branch in the vine. Sometimes just realizing what our status is can have quite an impact on how we live our daily life. We often ask what should I as a Christian be doing? But the better question may be, what…

Podcast #20 – Know the Meeting Life of the Church

In the church there are many types of meetings — the Lord’s table meeting, the prophesying meeting, and the prayer meeting as well as other types of meetings. Why is the Christian life a life of meeting? What do these meetings afford us? In this week’s podcast we cover the importance of knowing the meeting…

Podcast #31 – Preparation of a Useful Vessel – Hudson Taylor

God moves primarily through persons, not movements. It may take God a long time to gain a person, but once God has the person, He has the way. In this podcast we take a look at Hudson Taylor’s formative years and the experiences that God sovereignly used to shape this vessel who would open up…

Podcast #68 – The Functions of the Bible (3)

In this podcast we continue to look at five more functions of the word of God. The word of God divides our soul from our spirit. It tries us. It give us hope, endurance and encouragement. It give us joy. And the word washes us from our contact with the world. These experiences can be…

Podcast #19 – Know the Fellowship of the Church

One of the most important things that we can learn as Christians is to know the fellowship of the church. While it is true that God leads us personally, it is equally true that God leads us through the fellowship of the church. There is a fellowship and circulation going on all the time in…

2014 Winter Training Fellowship – Let this Fire Burn within You

https://youtube.com/watch?v=mzCIvrvm77w Moses referred to the burning bush as a great sight. In Acts 7:31 Stephen, in recounting the history of Israel, referred to it as a vision. Even the Lord Jesus made reference to it in Mark 12:26, referring to it as the section concerning the bush. In this fellowship, Brother Minoru spends time speaking…