HeartCry Missionary Society was granted permission by Ligonier Ministries (http://www.ligonier.org) to help fund the addition of Mandarin subtitles to the DVD Series, The Holiness of God by R.C Sproul. Also, the study guide has been translated into Mandarin to use as an additional tool in learning more about God’s nature. The DVD Series and the study guide are being distributed throughout China to thousands of Mandarin speakers. The team in China has shared with us an overview of the translation, distribution, and blessing associated with the series in the report below. HeartCry is thankful to you, the supporters of HeartCry, Ligonier Ministries, and the faithful brothers and sisters in China for making this project possible.
The Holiness of God is a modern classic written in 1985 and one that will stand the test of time. Dr. Sproul unfolds God’s holiness in a magnificent way. The Bible never says that God is love, love, love, or wrath, wrath, wrath; or justice, justice, justice. It does say that He is holy, holy, holy, that the whole earth is full of His glory.” Isaiah (chapter 6) once got a glimpse of God’s holiness and immediately cried out, “Woe is me. I am undone.” Moses (Exodus 33) asked to see God’s face and He replied, “No man can see God’s face and live.” The disciples trembled in fear after witnessing Christ’s display of control over nature (Mark 4:35-41). These men instantaneously recognized who they were when they were faced with the awesome holiness God.
The book has brought many a sense of awe into their relationships with their Savior that we must avail Sproul’s six part lectures on the Holiness of God in Chinese. The study guide to the Holiness of God has been translated to help our students study further this important subject. With the lecture and study guide we pray that it will spread a passion on the holiness of God and that their worship will never be boring or dull. As Dr. Sproul said that when God appeared in the temple, the doors and the thresholds were moved. The inert matter of doorposts, the inanimate thresholds, the wood and metal that could neither hear nor speak had the good sense to be moved by the presence of God.
Timothy began working for HeartCry in 2015 and assists with the work in Asia. He is married, has eight children, two sons-in-law, one daughter-in-law, and two grandchildren.
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