Christian Testimonies | How Can My Young, Brash, and Arrogant Self Get Along With My Grandmother? （Part 1）

Jan 13, 2018

An Qi

My name is An Qi. Before the age of six, I was living at my grandmother’s house. At the time, my grandmother was the person with whom I felt closest to. Each day when I went to the kindergarten, my grandmother decided which clothes I would wear and how I would comb my hair. I felt that my grandmother did these things the best. Gradually, I grew up and I started to disapprove of some of the things that my grandmother did. My grandmother also started to disapprove of me as well. Each time I went to her house, she would scold me. If she wasn’t nagging me on one thing, she would be nagging me about something else. I felt very upset.

Hymns of Praise | I Will Love God to Eternity | Song of All Time

Hymns of Praise | I Will Love God to Eternity | Song of All Time

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O God!

Your words have led me back to You.

I accept training in Your kingdom

day and night.

So many trials and pains,

so many tribulations.

Top Gospel Song of All Time | I'm So Happy to Gain God's Love | Praise Hymns

Top Gospel Song of All Time | I'm So Happy to Gain God's Love 

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God's truth is the eternal way of life.

I am no longer lost with the truth.

I could not be rid of the evil within.

God's judgment made me new.

I'll submit myself to God's trials,

so that God can gain my heart.

Short Christian Reflections | Why Does God Let Us Experience Trials and Refinement? (Part 2)

May 25, 2019

By Li Tong

Can Material Grace Help Us Grow in Our Lives?

Oftentimes, we lack understanding of God’s good intentions, and hope that things go as we wish them to. We are particularly unwilling to undergo trials and refinement. Instead, we hope for an entirely peaceful life without any catastrophes in our lives or our loved ones’ lives. We want everything to go smoothly, and to enjoy God’s blessings and grace. But do we ever consider whether a comfortable environment can allow us to cast off our corrupt dispositions? Can material blessings really help us know God’s disposition and being? If we only enjoy His mercy and grace, can that increase our faith in Him and allow us to develop true love for and submission to God? God’s words say, “If you only enjoy the grace of God, with a peaceful family life or material blessings, then you have not gained God, and your belief in God has failed. God has already carried out one stage of the work of grace in the flesh, and has already bestowed material blessings upon man—but man cannot be made perfect with grace, love, and mercy alone. In man’s experiences he encounters some of God’s love, and sees the love and mercy of God, yet having experienced for a period of time, he sees that God’s grace and His love and mercy are incapable of making man perfect, and incapable of revealing that which is corrupt within man, nor are they able to rid man of his corrupt disposition, or make perfect his love and faith. God’s work of grace was the work of one period, and man cannot rely on enjoying the grace of God in order to know God” (“Only by Experiencing Painful Trials Can You Know the Loveliness of God”).

Short Christian Reflections | Why Does God Let Us Experience Trials and Refinement? (Part 1)

May 25, 2019

By Li Tong

Many Christians feel confused: God is love and He is almighty, so why does He allow us to suffer? Could it be that He has abandoned us? This question always used to puzzle me, but lately, through prayer and seeking, I’ve gained a bit of enlightenment and light. This has resolved my misunderstandings of God, and I’ve come to understand that suffering is not God casting us aside, but instead is very carefully arranged by God in order to purify and save us. These trials and refinement are God’s greatest grace for us!

Gospel Music Video | God Has Revealed His Entire Disposition to Man

Gospel Music Video | God Has Revealed His Entire Disposition to Man 

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The Spirit of God has done such great work ever since the world was created. He has done different works in different nations, and across different ages. The people of each age see His different dispositions naturally revealed for all people to see and shown through works that are different. He is God, filled with mercy, filled with loving kindness. He's man's sin offering and shepherd. Yet He gives judgment, curse, and chastisement. A curse on man.

Why is it said that God’s two incarnations complete the significance of the incarnation?

Bible Verses for Reference:

“So Christ was once offered to bear the sins of many; and to them that look for Him shall He appear the second time without sin to salvation” (Heb 9:28).

“In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God” (Jhn 1:1).