Outside The Camp

Here’s a snippet from the recent “The Bridge” night.  It’s young artists community focused.  The next one will be held on August 4th.  Please keep us in your prayers. Bridging the gap.  ギャップを埋めること! Bridging the gap horizontally and vertically- our vision is four-fold.  1) Bridging the gap- between Church & the artist community; 2) bridging [...]

Soon!  We will be releasing the 3rd Simple Sheep CD this May 2012!  The title is “MARRIAGE”. 2012年5月、3枚目のCDを発売開始します。タイトルは「結婚」です。 It’s a privilege to be a member of Simple Sheep; and contribute the electric guitar parts. シンプル…シープのメンバーであることを光栄に思い (僕はすべてのエレキギターの部品を貢献していました。宜しくお願いします。） Also please read our band leader Kent Sumiya’s interview on Revival Japan (Japanese only). 「音楽を通して福音を伝えたい」シンプルシープ　ボーカリスト　角谷憲太郎さん。 http://www.revival.co.jp/2011/10/post-187.php Label: TOKINOKOE Worship [...]

Proverbs 4:23 “Above all else, guard your heart, for it is the wellspring of life.” Ezekiel 36:26 “And I will give you a new heart, and a new spirit I will put within you.  And I will remove the heart of stone from your flesh and give you a heart of flesh.” This is part [...]

I have three heroes in the faith.  They are Rev. Richard Wurmbrand, Grandpa and Grandma.  Grandpa was a missionary at heart and home.  When his heart broke for the family, he would weep and pray earnestly.  He had a gentler way of persuading people.  Whereas Grandma was the opposite.  She was the prophetic one. I [...]

  “With him [Titus] we are sending the brother who is famous among all the churches for his preaching of the gospel” ( 2 Corinthians 8: 18). Some say this brother was Luke who accompanied Paul in most of his missionary journeys.  Some have supposed that it was Mark, others that it was Silas or Barnabas.  [...]

The thrust of this article is quite similar to what my former Church History teacher Dr. Micheal Oh once wrote titled, “The Dangers of Fruitfulness Without Purity.”  It only goes deeper, as it addresses heart issues.  Paul Tripp has ministered to me and my wife, indirectly, through his marriage seminar titled: What Did You Expect?: [...]

How can a Church in a small economically insignificant Indian state provide for so many missionaries? The Mizoram Presbyterian Church is a 600,000 member Reformed church in North East India, where I’ve been a member since childhood (Mizoram is an Indian state).  It is one of the largest Reformed churches in the world.  I hope [...]

In a culture of Confucian-politeness, it is easy to succumb to the temptations of pleasing men rather than speaking the truth in love.  I sometimes wonder if our Gospel-motivation and conviction can be displaced by our cultural modesty, because it is always tempting to play the “gentleman” like everyone else.  What do we do as [...]

NOTE: Occasionally,  I do a re:post on articles that I personally could not have written any better.  It’s always an honor and a joy to learn from others.  I hope you find this post by Justin Taylor from The Gospel Coalition blog helpful.  This is much needed in many evangelical churches today! ————————————————————————————————————————— Here is [...]

The resurrection of the dead is at the heart of “the Gospel.”  This is the most important teaching, and fundamental to our faith.  The resurrection of Christ from the dead played a major part in the ministry of the apostles, to the grief of the Sadducees among the Jews, to the scorn of the Gentile [...]

This is the Church that my wife & I are currently working with. Come visit us! A sinless Savior came from a long line of sinners!  This Christmas 2011, several questions came to mind from Matthew 1.  Why did God choose Tamar, Rahab, Ruth and wife of Uriah?  Tamar had a child with her father-in-law, [...]

When the Welsh (Calvinistic-Methodist) missionaries planted the seed of the Gospel in my home state (Mizoram, India), in less than 50 years the entire state became a 98 % Christian through consecutive awakenings and revivals.  Having celebrated Christianity for over 100 years, none of us have arrived.  Our need for Gospel revival is greater than [...]

This is a series of posts. Please comment and share your input if you have had any thoughts along these lines. What do the Reformed-Charismatics of today have in common with the Calvinistic-Methodists of Wales?  I graduated from a bible training center run by charismatic folks in India (2002).  Upon graduation, I served as an [...]

History’s Greatest Revival: The 1904 Revival — 1904 The New Testament began with an incredible new phenomenon of the outpouring of the Holy Spirit, and has become the basis of all successive future revivals.  This was the greatest outpouring of God on His people, because everything else rests on what happened that day on Pentecost. [...]

J. Edwin Orr describes the Welsh revival as “the farthest reaching of the movements of general awakening, for it affected the whole of the evangelical cause in India, Korea and China, renewed revival in Japan and South Africa, and sent a wave of awakenings over Africa, Latin America and the South Seas.” So a God-centered [...]

Long before the March 11, 2011 quake struck Japan, I had started writing on “Suffering and the Sovereignty of God” which I’m turning into a book.  Following the aftershocks and the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear disaster, I did a few posts on Japan Earthquake: Divine Comfort In The Midst Of Catastrophe (see bottom of this post).  [...]

A Year After The Earthquake, Tsunami & Nuclear Disaster! Video: Gospel testimony: Masato Kotani is grateful for what God has done in his life. This last Sunday, March 11, 2012, brought afresh painful and horrendous memories.  It marked a year after the 9.0 magnitude quake, tsunami and nuclear disaster in Northern Japan.  I’d come back from [...]

This post is a part 2 follow up of  my post recently featured on The Gospel Coalition blog by Joe Carter (editor).  Thanks again Joe, if you’re reading this. ———————————————————————————————————————- The Japan Times says that chairs on High School graduation day will be empty this year. As graduation ceremonies get under way at schools across [...]

Interview by Joey Zorina (Outside The Camp).  24th March 2012.  ジョーイゾリナのインタビュー Jonathan Wilson is President of C.R.A.S.H Japan and pastor of Grace Christian Fellowship, Japan.  I asked Jonathan if he could spare his valuable time for a short blog interview and he graciously replied saying he would be happy to. I hope that those of [...]

THE GOOD FRIDAY EARTHQUAKE: THE GREATEST SUFFERING IN HISTORY. This sermon was preached at International Christian Academy of Nagoya, Chapel, last Good Friday; 3-months before my wife & I moved to Kawasaki; and 1-month after the March 11, 2011 Quake, Tsunami & Nuclear disaster.   I will not be speaking any where during this Good Friday, [...]

I want to invite you to come, serve with us in this mission of love.  Matthew 28: 18  “And Jesus came and said to them, “ALL authority in heaven and on earth has been given to me. 19 GO therefore and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and [...]