Instruction And Exhortation To The Trainees

The Collected Works of Witness Lee, 1990, volume 1, contains messages given by Brother Witness Lee from January 7, 1990, through June 18, 1991. In 1990 Brother Lee spoke forty-six messages that were published in the Life-study of Deuteronomy and the Life-study of Isaiah. These Life-study messages are not included in The Collected Works of Witness Lee. During the first three months of 1990 Brother Lee was in Anaheim, California. In early April he traveled to Taipei, Taiwan, and at the end of that month he visited Hualien, Taiwan. He returned to Anaheim in the first part of May and remained there until the end of the third week in August. During that time he visited Long Beach, California. At the end of August Brother Lee visited San Francisco, San Jose, and Berkeley, California. In early September he returned to Anaheim and remained there until the middle of October. During that period he briefly visited San Diego and San Bernardino, California. In the middle of October Brother Lee traveled to the Far East and remained there until the first part of November. During that period he visited Taipei and then Kota Kinabalu, Sibu, Kuching, and Petaling Jaya, Malaysia. In the middle of November he returned to Anaheim and remained there until the end of the year. The contents of this volume are divided into seven sections, as follows: 1. Twenty-four messages given in Anaheim, California, on January 7 through October 7, 1990. These messages are included in this volume under the title Various Anaheim Meetings and Fellowships. 2. Thirteen messages given in Anaheim, California, on January 9 through August 21, 1990. These messages are included in this volume under the title Bearing Remaining Fruit for the Lord's Pleasure. 3. Four messages given in Anaheim, California, on January 26 through 28, 1990. These messages were previously published in a book entitled God's Way in Life and are included in this volume under the same title. 4. Three messages given in Anaheim, California, on January 29 through June 16, 1990. These messages were previously published in a book entitled Instruction and Exhortation to the Trainees and are included in this volume under the same title. 5. Nineteen messages given in Anaheim, California, on February 6, 1990, through June 18, 1991. These messages were previously published in a book entitled The Triune God to Be Life to the Tripartite Man and are included in this volume under the same title. 6. Twelve messages given in Anaheim, California, on February 7 through June 13, 1990. These messages were previously published in a book entitled The Apostles' Teaching and are included in this volume under the same title. 7. Twelve messages given in Anaheim, California, on February 9 through June 15, 1990. These messages were previously published in a book entitled The Spirit and are included in this volume under the same title.

At the time of regeneration, all believers receive the divine life and are begotten as children of God. Yet, this life most grow and it does so by regulation unto maturity and function. This regulation comes from revelation and issues in obedience. This word is crucial for our progress and training in the divine life for our maturity and function in our living and service to God.

Throughout the pharaonic period, hieroglyphs served both practical and aesthetic purposes. Carved on stelae, statues, and temple walls, hieroglyphic inscriptions were one of the most prominent and distinctive features of ancient Egyptian visual culture. For both the literate minority of Egyptians and the vast illiterate majority of the population, hieroglyphs possessed a potent symbolic value that went beyond their capacity to render language visible. For nearly three thousand years, the hieroglyphic script remained closely bound to indigenous notions of religious and cultural identity. By the late antique period, literacy in hieroglyphs had been almost entirely lost. However, the monumental temples and tombs that marked the Egyptian landscape, together with the hieroglyphic inscriptions that adorned them, still stood as inescapable reminders that Christianity was a relatively new arrival to the ancient land of the pharaohs. In Egyptian Hieroglyphs in the Late Antique Imagination, Jennifer Westerfeld argues that depictions of hieroglyphic inscriptions in late antique Christian texts reflect the authors' attitudes toward Egypt's pharaonic past. Whether hieroglyphs were condemned as idolatrous images or valued as a source of mystical knowledge, control over the representation and interpretation of hieroglyphic texts constituted an important source of Christian authority. Westerfeld examines the ways in which hieroglyphs are deployed in the works of Eusebius and Augustine, to debate biblical chronology; in Greek, Roman, and patristic sources, to claim that hieroglyphs encoded the mysteries of the Egyptian priesthood; and in a polemical sermon by the fifth-century monastic leader Shenoute of Atripe, to argue that hieroglyphs should be destroyed lest they promote a return to idolatry. She argues that, in the absence of any genuine understanding of hieroglyphic writing, late antique Christian authors were able to take this powerful symbol of Egyptian identity and manipulate it to serve their particular theological and ideological ends.

Ministry Book of the Year--The Gospel Coalition 2017 Book Awards The critical missing element in Christian mentoring today: the congregation "Bringing up future leaders isn't just the job of the pastor but of the whole congregation. This is an urgently needed book in churches today." --R. Albert Mohler Jr., president of The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary Young, emerging leaders of the church, many of whom have gone through leadership training and traditional mentorship programs, still too often find themselves unprepared for the realities of ministry. Many leave the ministry altogether, overwhelmed. Phil Newton reveals a critical gap: single-source mentorship is incomplete. Mentoring must involve the congregation, not just senior pastors, in order to bring forth mature, resilient leaders prepared for all that ministry entails. The solid, practical solutions in The Mentoring Church offer churches of any size both the vision for mentoring future leaders and a workable template to follow. With insightful consideration of theological, historical, and contemporary training models for pastor/church partnerships, Newton is a reliable guide to developing a church culture that equips fully prepared leaders.

A collection of daily devotional readings from Closer Walk magazine and the bestselling New International Version translation, written to help the reader develop a heart for God. Going through the entire New Testament in one year, these devotionals provide daily insights from great Christian leaders suce as A.B. Simpson, Charles Spurgeon, Peter Abelard, or Alexander McLaren.