Outside The Camp

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 [...]

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. [...]

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 [...]

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 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, [...]

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 [...]