FAI will celebrate our 10-Year Anniversary on December 23, 2021. In this excerpt from 'The Ultimate Conquest,' Stephanie Quick examines Hudson Taylor’s journey from confusion related to the Millennial Reign into profound clarity and a concrete hope—one he called a “thoroughly practical one.” This shaped and steered his leadership over the China Inland Mission as they made disciples across the largest unreached people group in their day and time.
I wonder if we Artists & Creatives have lost our place in our own story; if we think part of the Body of Jesus is for the prophetic, apostolic, evangelistic, pastoral, or educating members, and the other part is for the dancers, painters, and guitar-wielding hippies. This unspoken partition disproportionately divides the labor to the former group and communicates a sense of exemption to the latter—but Scripture favors none, and lets no one off the hook.
"Costly," the third and final single in Stephanie Quick's 'the costly ep,' dropped this week. In this article, she explores perhaps the deepest depths of Scripture, what the apostles knew as "the law of Christ," and discusses the formative convictions that birthed "Galilee," "Costly," and "Redwood." The EP is now available on all platforms.
So. A Romans-15:20-creative-access ministry with an unconventional media production arm releases a cryptic dirge illustrated through a lyric video filled with fire, empty alcohol bottles, and puddled wounds of prop blood. In the words of the King James, “What meanest thou this?”
Let’s talk about “costly,” the third and final single of its title EP, out on all platforms today.
FAI will celebrate our 10-Year Anniversary on December 23, 2021. In this excerpt from 'The Ultimate Conquest,' Nikolai Boyadjiev explores Hudson Taylor’s preparatory strategies for reaching the largest unreached people group in his day and time. What formed one of the most effective laborers in history? It may surprise you to see how Hudson Taylor’s first disciple was…himself. What does this mean for us as we engage the Islamic world?
Hinges of history are remembered with nostalgia, but they usually inflict whiplash when they’re happening. If you bear the Image & Name of the LORD, you are “obliged” to bear the Message of the LORD—and I believe the Creator of all has “appointed by name” Artists & Creatives to bear beautiful witness to the “blessed hope” that is the return and reign of the Man Christ Jesus, the Better Beautiful.
What will the just Judge do with the worst of Jacob? What if all these horrible accusations against the people and nation of Israel were true? How would that bear upon the promises and provisions of the Everlasting Covenant? Stephanie Quick explores the prophetic texts to ask what God will do with Israel, even if she is indeed an apartheid state.
Founder & Co-Director of The Malachi Network, Rich Stevenson offers this guest article to FAI Publishing with a beautiful examination of Jesus' restorative walk with Peter. This simple conversation, and Jesus' simple charge to Peter, illuminates the simple obedience to our God and King required of all disciples.
“The LORD is zealous for Zion with great zeal," and thus there is a Zionism that is not carnal. Join Stephanie Quick and FAI for a family fireside chat to find the zeal of the Lord for Zion that produces a sanctified solidarity with Israel and jealousy that the King of the Jews be known, adored, and obeyed in the nations.
When the holiday of Shavuot comes around in the late spring, families gather together to celebrate the fruitfulness of the land, read the book of Ruth, and ponder the giving of the Law. But why should this festival, a purely agricultural feast in the Bible, have come to be so closely associated with the revelation at Sinai?
The cup of staggering, cup of stupor, is engineered to push us into the God of the Everlasting Covenant, the One who died to kill the carnality in us—because nothing of the flesh will survive eternity. In this era of rocket fury and the drunken stupor saturating social media, guard your heart. The only Goliath is the antichristic spirit that opposes the eternal purposes of God bound up in the everlasting covenant.
The age-ending Day of the Lord will expose every wicked thing and reveal every holy mystery kept hidden from our eyes until then. We will not dread eternity with Him. We will not resent His reign. We will not resist His hand. The dim mirrors removed and shattered, our eyes will see Him fully and clearly. Adoration will erupt from our hearts and rush from our lips: “You are everything You said and more.”
Put simply, “You’re everything.” Nothing else will matter.
Being in a desert (whether figuratively or literally) is far from easy or comforting, but it is rich with spiritual treasure. We have many examples in scripture of the intense trial that can occur in deserts, followed by intense outpouring and provision. What do you get when olives, coconuts, seeds, or nuts are hard pressed on every side until what’s inside of them flows out? In other words, what do you get when good things are crushed?
Oil.
“We knew something had happened. And when we left that cottage at three o’clock in the morning we learned what it was. Everywhere men and women were seeking God. As I walked along the country road, I found three men on their faces, crying to God for mercy. There was a light in every home; no one seemed to be thinking of sleep.”
