Chinese Church

Reader's Choice Award Winner. Throughout China's rapidly growing cities, a new wave of unregistered house churches is growing. They are developing rich theological perspectives that are both uniquely Chinese and rooted in the historical doctrines of the faith. To understand how they have endured despite government pressure and cultural marginalization, we must understand both their history and their theology. In this volume, key writings from the house church have been compiled, translated, and made accessible to English speakers.

In Faith in the Wilderness, editors Hannah Nation and Simon Liu pull together the insights of the Chinese Church for the West. These sermonic letters from Chinese Christians will awaken listeners to the reality of the gospel—the ground of our hope—in the midst of darkness.

Making Pentecost Your Story: 50 Days of Reflection and Prayer is a unique devotional resource that features 50 stories and prayers inspired by the Church in China. This stimulating study guide also encourages reflection on topics found in its companion volume, Pentecost: This Story is Our Story. The book is Pentecostal or Charismatic in perspective, welcoming in tone, and designed for use by individuals or groups.

This is the story of Mazagon, once an island inhabited by Kolis, Bhandaris and Agris. It remained so under the Portuguese, fetching them the highest revenue among all the islands of Bombay. Falling into British hands through a disputed dowry deed, Mazagon retained its identity as an island for many more years with its own fort, dock, churches and even a gunpowder factory. Then, like the other islands of the archipelago, Mazagon too got merged into a single entity called Bombay. But that did not diminish the importance of this place, which soon became a sought-after suburb of British Bombay,...

THEY KNEW NOTHING OF THE CURSE WHEN THEY FOUND THE JEWEL: A LARGE COLOMBIAN EMERALD EMBEDDED IN THE CENTRE OF A CATHOLIC BISHOP’S GOLD CROSS. The cross had been hidden within a secret compartment in an antique mahogany writing box they had purchased at the Dirt Market in Beijing, a compartment sealed for over a hundred years. And with the cross was an unfinished letter from a Captain of the 16th Bengal Lancers to his wife, telling of a brass chest containing church treasure and holy relics looted during the Boxer Rebellion, a chest supposedly buried somewhere in the city once known as ...

He loves her… He loves her not… She’s waiting for him to decide. A young pastor of a growing church in a thriving community, Diego Flores has to come to grips with God’s will for his church and his personal life. Diego’s Disquiet… Single and unmarried, Pastor Diego Flores has been interested in his best friend’s younger sister since their college days, but his calling to grow Riverside Chapel takes up most of his time. When Heidi Wei becomes his strongest supporter in his church-planting ministry, how does Diego show his feelings for her without giving her the wrong idea? Does...

In August 2024, Shirley and I will be celebrating our Golden Anniversary. We were married on August 18, 1974, in New York City. Our wedding ceremony was held at the First Chinese Presbyterian Church in Chinatown on Lower Manhattan. Since 1974, I have changed seven jobs and we have moved six times, all along the East Coast. We went through good and difficult times. We raised two successful daughters and have two grandchildren. We love to travel and cruise the Caribbean and Mediterranean Seas. This eBook compiles some of the pictures, just two of us, which we captured during our travel in the...

Church leaders and pastors can sometimes struggle with a sudden increase in church attendance. And yet, what if the church in one nation is experiencing toward a million people each month being added? What would be the challenges? What about unity, communication, or discipleship? What are the church models that are applied to cope with revival and also in facing daily persecution?