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– Paul (2 Timothy 4:13)
UNTO DEATH // MARTYRDOM, MISSIONS,
AND THE MATURITY OF THE CHURCH
Throughout the three and a half years of His earthly ministry, Jesus consistently called His disciples to expect and embrace suffering, persecution, and martyrdom, exhorting them with such words as, “hate your life,” “pick up your cross,” and “deny yourself.” He assured us that we are “blessed” when we are “reviled” and “persecuted,” and cursed if “all men speak well of us.” He made promises like, “You will have trouble,” “they will put you to death,” and “you will be hated by all for My name’s sake.” Though not every believer is called to give a martyr-witness, every believer is called to embrace a martyr-mentality, every Church a martyr-mandate, and every minister a martyr-theology.
Unto Death explores the implications of the resurrection, the imperatives of costly discipleship, and invites those who love and confess the Lordship of Jesus to invest their limited life in this age for an abundant life in the next—driven by the apostolic “blessed hope” befitting those who worship a crucified King and a slain Lamb.
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THE ULTIMATE CONQUEST //
REFLECTIONS ON THE LIFE AND LEGACY OF HUDSON TAYLOR
Written as a companion piece to our seventh film (THE FRONTIER), The Ultimate Conquest is an intimate look at the lives of these pioneers and a gripping exploration of the privilege and the cost of laboring on the remaining fields of unreached and unengaged people groups. It brings to life the incredible story of Hudson Taylor and the China Inland Mission in relation to its impact on the Frontier Alliance International family. Apart from Scripture, no single individual has played a more influential role in the formation of the vision and values of FAI than Taylor and the China Inland Mission.
Frontier Alliance International invites you into the heart ofChina to encounter one of the greatest visionary pioneers in history; what convictions drove Hudson Taylor, what values shaped his own family and organization, and how we can glean from the legacies and strategies of those who’ve gone before us as we carry this great and holy task in our own generation—the proclamation of the Gospel of the Kingdom in every tribe, tongue, people, and nation.
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RUINS OF THE RENAISSANCE // CRISIS, CLARITY, AND APOSTOLIC ARTISTRY
The Reformation would not have been possible if it were not for the Renaissance. Out of the ashes of the Black Death and “bloodiest century in human history” that closed the Dark Ages, human history hinged around the corner of “the rebirth”—the Renaissance. For better or worse, this unprecedented period of explosive creativity and scientific development propelled civilization headlong into the Enlightenment. Incredibly, the Church strategically leveraged new means of the era to shift global consciousness. Nothing quite like it has happened since—but the biblical testimony invites artists and creatives into a “better Renaissance” for the ultimate hinge of human history: the coming of the Son of Man. As wars, crises, and conflicts mount, may we bear strategic, beautiful witness to the Better Beautiful.
Citing Scriptural, empirical, and historical evidence of mankind’s reliance on beauty, Ruins of the Renaissance illuminates the strengths and shortcomings of this historical epoch, and provokes the Body of Jesus to leverage beautiful means to declare the beautiful Truth: Christ crucified, resurrected, and returning in glory. Maranatha.
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A CALL TO COMPEL // THE SIMPLICITY, URGENCY, AND JOY OF MAKING DISCIPLES
If you want to be happy, make disciples. Jesus told us: "If you keep My commandments, you will abide in My love....that My joy may be in you, and that your joy may be full." Obedience to Jesus produces joy. And He left us a clear directive to obey until He returns: "Therefore go and make disciples of all nations...teaching them to obey all that I have commanded you. And surely, I am with you always, to the end of the age."
When it comes to making disciples, our role is straightforward: we simply obey the commands of our Master. Jesus likened the Kingdom of heaven to a King who put on a wedding banquet for his son—and sent his servants to tell those who were invited that the feast was ready. It's a parable, but it describes in a real way what the Lord is doing to draw people to Himself: Jesus sends those who already belong to Him to bear witness to those who do not yet know Him and invite them to the Marriage Supper of the Lamb in the age to come. Our task is simple. Our work is urgent. And our obedience to Jesus is the path to our own joy.
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TO TRACE A RISING SUN //
GOD, THE GOSPEL, AND YOUR LIFE IN THIS AGE
The Scriptures burden us with this ultimatum: Jesus is either everything the prophets, apostles and He Himself say He is, or He is nothing at all. As Charles Spurgeon so simply put it, “If Christ be anything, He must be everything.” He must be. This is why—and only how—the Gospel has such explosive implications. This is why Golgotha is of cosmic consequence. This is why Paul could hinge the legitimacy of Christian discipleship on the resurrection of the saints upon the Lord’s appearance at the end of the age. Either the whole canon of Scripture still matters, or we can burn the books. Yet the apostolic confidence declared so long ago rings true today, unthreatened and unwavering against the tides of cultural confusion and delusion.
To Trace a Rising Sun is a meditation on the point and purpose of creation in this age; if men and women bear the Image of the Holy, then the Gospel of the Kingdom matters for our minutes and decisions. But we must understand the whole story, beginning to end. Consider what you’re made for, called to, and how the story of your life fits into the wild and beautiful story of eternity. If Christ be anything, He must be everything—and if that’s true, He means and changes everything.
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WONDER, WITNESS, AND WAR //
EXALTING CHRIST IN CONFLICT ZONES
As the world grapples with escalating crises and humanitarian needs on scales unseen since the Second World War, the Body of Jesus worldwide must evaluate how we responsibly steward and bear the name of the “Servant of all”—we must ask how we can engage strategically and faithfully, to best serve as “light” and “salt” to a dark and dying world—so that the Lord of all would be known to every tribe, every tongue, and every people group. Unprecedented crisis has created unprecedented opportunities.
In this compilation of essays by FAI Relief field personnel, Wonder, Witness, and War explores the responsibility upon believers, our opportunities to engage the crises, and the unique fellowship found with Jesus on the blood-stained soil of the frontier.
The harvest is plentiful. The laborers are few. And the doors are open. There are no closed countries.
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CONFRONTING UNBELIEF //
YOUR SOUL AND THE CITY OF THE GREAT KING
A.W. Tozer declared this in his classic work The Knowledge of the Holy: “what comes into our minds when we think about God is the most important thing about us.” If we do not love Him with our minds—our beliefs, our imaginations, and our thoughts—we are not loving Him as we ought.
In His kindness, the LORD has given us a living object lesson to calibrate our emotions and beliefs to the eternal truths of Scripture. The “City of the Great King” serves us with her testimony. The nations have a controversy with Jerusalem. The Church has a controversy with Jerusalem. Satan has a controversy with Jerusalem. God Himself has a controversy with Jerusalem. Yet she is the chosen throne for David’s Son, and the last time Jesus saw her, He wept.
She has always been complicated.
Incidentally, so have we.
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OUR CLASSIC SERIES
BELOVED VOICES WE BELIEVE SHOULD BE IN PRINT
A RETROSPECT //
THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF J. HUDSON TAYLOR
Since the life of Paul and era following Pentecost, few lives have left the legacy and impact among the unreached and unengaged as that of James Hudson Taylor. His unwavering devotion to exalting Jesus “built foundations where there were none” (Romans 15:20) such that millions of Chinese believers trace their lineage in the faith back to this young man from England.
Born in 1832, James Hudson Taylor spent the first decade and a half of his life in what he would later term as blasphemy and unbelief until (crediting the prayers of his mother and the grace of his Maker) he met Jesus at the age of sixteen. The Man from Galilee quickly became Taylor’s preeminent obsession and preoccupation. Taylor founded the China Inland Mission in 1865, which immediately employed ground-breaking targeted and strategic mobilization models which effectively drove the Gospel of the Kingdom of Jesus into a nation, provinces, and neighborhoods where the name of Jesus had, nearly two millennia after the Ascension, still not yet been heard or confessed. Taylor’s Retrospect over a life so well lived is a glimpse into the heart and mind of a man of single vision and should be studied by every Gospel pioneer.
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UNION & COMMUNION //
THOUGHTS ON SONG OF SOLOMON
Born in 1832, James Hudson Taylor spent the first decade and a half of his life in what he would later term as blasphemy and unbelief until (crediting the prayers of his mother and the grace of his Maker) he met Jesus at the age of sixteen. The Man from Galilee quickly became Taylor’s preeminent obsession and preoccupation. By the age of seventeen, driven by a dream for Jesus to be magnified by every man, woman, and child He made, Hudson Taylor committed himself to a life amongst the largest unreached nation of his day: China. He followed through on this commitment and was buried in China in 1905. Taylor’s ability to work hard and effectively under duress and difficulty was fueled by his love for Scripture, for the Spirit who breathes upon the Word, and the Son who reminds us to “abide,” because one truth will carry a laborer across the threshold between this age and the next, and it is one Hudson Taylor confidently knew: who we are is and will always be more important than what we do.
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RESCUED FROM THE REICH // HOW A RABBI, A PRIEST, AND A KING EVADED HITLER’S GRASP
A generation after the devastation known as “the Holocaust,” stories and first-hand accounts are yet being told. Perhaps one of the least-known miracles of the Holocaust is the story of the small, fledgling Balkan nation that came out of the years engulfed in Hitler’s fury with more living Jewish citizens than when the Second World War started in 1939—despite being an ally of the Third Reich. In the center of this incredible drama are King Boris III, a Greek Orthodox priest, and a largely unknown rabbi named Daniel Zion.
Hear directly from this man who forged a friendship between the Church and the synagogue, and bravely forced the hand of the king to intercede and intervene for his Jewish citizens. Not a single Bulgarian Jewish life was lost in the Holocaust, and the community survive to make Aliyah to the State of Israel following its establishment in May 1948. Yet the most incredible element to this miraculous record of history is Zion’s encounter with the One who will fully save and rescue the children of Jacob, the land promised to Abraham, and the city of Jerusalem at the end of this age.
For more on the life of Daniel Zion and the remarkable rescue of Bulgarian Jews from the Third Reich, watch Covenant and Controversy Part III: The Great Trouble (2018) by FAI STUDIOS, free on YouTube and in the FAI App.
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CHRIST & ISRAEL // LECTURES ON THE JEWS (EDITED BY DAVID BARON)
Adolph Saphir is the “best Bible teacher” you’ve never heard of—but Spurgeon himself regarded his contemporary so. Though a prolific writer in his lifetime, the lectures contained in this book were collected and published posthumously by Saphir’s protégé and fellow Messianic Jew, David Baron.After he and his immediately family came to faith in his early adolescence through the ministry of the Scottish Mission to the Jews, Saphir went on to graduate from Glasgow University and grow into a well-respected Bible teacher throughout the U.K. and Europe.
He is the author of Christ and the Scriptures, The Epistle to the Hebrews, The Divine Unity of the Scriptures, and many more titles. These lectures tell his remarkable story, and mine through the depths Saphir carved in the very Word he fell in love with as a young man. He calls to us even still to not forget the everlasting covenant, to not fall ignorant to its enduring controversy, and to bear the burden of the prophets and apostles. As he so well said, “Behold, Jesus Christ still weeping over Jerusalem with the eyes of Paul.” May Christ & Israel illuminate the mystery of the ages in your own eyes, that you may weep the same.
