I'm on with Trae Crowder & Cory Ryan Forrester to talk wild & crazy stories about China. Please forgive the tech difficulties! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cKVpUmzGr8o Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoicesBy Chris Stewart

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Beginning in Beijing, and then expanding out all the way to the "New Frontier" of Dzungaria, we take a survey-altitude view of the final decade-ish of the Kangxi Emperor's life & reign over the Qing Empire Time Period Covered: ~1700-1722 CE Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices…

Send us a text Jesus is King; can you see it yet? If you can, what are you doing about it? (Text: Mark 11.1-11)By Pastor Tim Minge

Original publication: 03/21/2025 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoicesBy Chris Stewart

Send us a text Jesus’ kingdom brings something new and better to celebrate. Embrace the new that Jesus brings and don’t cling to what is expired. (Text: Mark 2.18-22)By Pastor Tim Minge

Send us a text Jesus welcomes sinners as sinners...and so should you. See yourself and others as Jesus does and welcome them as he does. (Mark 2.13-17)By Pastor Tim Minge

In the wake of the Kangxi Emperor's flawless victory + fatality of Galdan Khan, he erects his own definitive version of "The Way Things Happened" - five stone stelae monuments as an everlasting tribute to his greatness, and his side of the story literally written in stone. But even one so mighty as the Lord of Great Qing is not above the twist of f…

Send us a text Jesus knows what you need, primarily his forgiveness. (Text: Mark 2.1-12)By Pastor Tim Minge

The History of Aotearoa/New Zealand asked for a little boost in the "what going on elsewhere in the world?" category ca. 1759. Well, we were inclined to be accommodating... It also just so happened that the Qing Empire under the Qianlong Emperor happened to be engaged in a tremendous border clash far to its south... Presenting: The Sino-Burmese War…

Send us a text Jesus truly cares about you and desires to completely heal and restore sinners (like you). (Text: Mark 1.40-45)By Pastor Tim Minge

Send us a text Jesus teaches us that the priorities of life are fellowship with God and doing his will. (Text: Mark 1.35-39)By Pastor Tim Minge

We end our trio of insider views into the Forbidden City by looking at the life - and strictures - of the Big Man himself: the emperor. Turn out it's not all banquets and parades. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoicesBy Chris Stewart

Send us a text In this text we discover that Jesus is the compassionate healer who has time for you. (Text: Mark 1.29-34)By Pastor Tim Minge

A look into the inner heart of the mysterious Forbidden City of Beijing, and at its most protected - and confined - denizens: the women of the Imperial palace. From Empress, to concubine, to lowly maid - women hold up half of Heaven. Please support the show!: patreon.com/thehistoryofchina Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoic…

Send us a text Jesus has unique authority to make a real difference. (Text: Mark 1.21-28)By Pastor Tim Minge

Everything you ever wanted to know (and probably some you didn't) about Court Eunuchs in Imperial China (warning: contains description of castration & its effects) Mary M. Anderson, Hidden Power: The Palace Eunuchs of Imperial China. Duhalde, Marcelo. "How an army of eunuchs ran the Forbidden City" in The South China Morning Post. Learn more about …

Send us a text Jesus is the focus of Christianity, and following him is the Christian’s basic task. It’s not complicated: being a Christian means following Jesus. (Mark 1.16-20)By Pastor Tim Minge

Send us a text God’s building and bringing his kingdom to earth through Jesus, and you can belong to it! (Text: Mark 1.14-15)

Send us a text Jesus is God’s faithful Son and Representative for you. As He is, so are His people. (Text: Mark 1.12-13)

Genghis Khan is dead, and his 3rd son Ögedei has ben selected to lead the Mongol Empire into an uncertain future. Once he is confirmed on the throne, he'll strike on in every direction against every foe at once. On the way, there will be virgin sacrifices, talking wolves, free money, mass enslavement, Persian princes, Assassins, poison, angry water…

Send us a text Jesus is God’s anointed Christ, beloved Son, and faithful Servant, who came for YOU. (Text: Mark 1.9-11)

Send us a text The Holy Spirit empowers us to live as God’s new creation people. (Text: Mark 1.4-8)By Pastor Tim Minge

Galdan is dead. Kangxi's victory is total. It's all over but the crying. ... and the executions via slow-slicing... and the crushing of his bones... and the punishment of his family... and the writing him out of history... Please support the show!: patreon.com/thehistoryofchina Time Period Covered: 1697-8 CE Major Historical Figures: Qing Dynasty: …

Send us a text Repentance is how we prepare to meet the coming Christ. (Text: Mark 1.1-8)By Pastor Tim Minge

The Kangxi Emperor ruthlessly tracks down Galdan Khan, leaving him and his followers with nowhere to turn and nowhere to hide. The end draws close... Please support the show!: patreon.com/thehistoryofchina Time Period Covered: 1697-8 CE Major Historical Figures: Qing Dynasty: The Kangxi Emperor (Aisin-Gioro Xuanye) [r. 1654-1722] Jean-Francois Gerb…

Send us a text The Church is meant to be God’s distinctively fragrant and continually refreshing community. (Text: Psalm 133)By Pastor Tim Minge

Even the invincible Genghis Khan must face the inevitability of death. It holds no fear for him personally, but before he surrenders at last to oblivion, he needs to see two tasks through to the end: who will succeed him as Emperor of the World, and making sure an old enemy gets what has long been coming to them... Time Period Covered: 1220-1227 CE…

Send us a text Light came as promised and penetrates the deepest darkness. God sent the promised Light by sending His Son into the darkened world. (Text: John 1.1-14)By Pastor Tim Minge

Send us a text Guest Speaker Josh Mencer preaches from the genealogy of Christ in Matthew 1.1-17.By Pastor Tim Minge

Send us a text During Advent we are reminded that God mercifully confirms his promises with signs to assure our hearts and help us while we wait. (Text: Luke 1.67-79)By Pastor Tim Minge

The jaws of the Kangxi Emperor close in around Galdan Khan, as his own dream of "The Great Mongol Enterprise" crash down around him at a fateful stand of 100 trees abutting a tiny stream somewhere in the vastness of the steppes. To the victor go the draft histories... Please support the show!: patreon.com/thehistoryofchina Time Period Covered 1696 …

Send us a text During Advent we are reminded that even in the darkness of waiting, there is reason to hope for God’s light. (Text: Isaiah 8.11-9.2)By Pastor Tim Minge

Galdan Khan has slipped The Kangxi Emperor’s trap, but only by the skin of his teeth. Now having retreated deep into the heart of Central Asia, he’ll think himself safe. But the Dread Lord of Great Qing is not one to let a vendetta go so easily… Please support the show!: patreon.com/thehistoryofchina Time Period Covered 1691-1696 CE Major Historica…

Send us a text Keep wisdom in your heart then do something with it. (Text: Proverbs 4.23-27)By Pastor Tim Minge

Send us a text Receive and store wisdom in your heart because from there it can affect your whole body. (Text: Proverbs 4.20-27)By Pastor Tim Minge

Send us a text Choose the path of wisdom personally, intentionally, continually, and confidently because it is the way of Christ. (Text: Proverbs 4.10-19)By Pastor Tim Minge

In an epic handshake of history, the Qing and Russian Empires hammer out the first major treaty between East and West. It's good for Great Qing, it's maybe good for Russia... but it's definitely not good for the Mongols who got iced out of the negotiations by a couple of Puritan hustlers, like Galdan Khan and his harried host of Dzungars. Not good …

Send us a text God’s wisdom is always worth passing down, worth receiving, worth any cost. (Text: Proverbs 4.1-9)By Pastor Tim Minge

A chat with Vince and Cassie of the Autocrat Podcast comparing and contrasting the Roman and Chinese origins and genesis legends, folktales, & mythos. Find Autocrat Podcast at: autocratpodcast.wordpress.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoicesBy Chris Stewart

Send us a text Living well in God’s world means living well in community with others and with God. (Text: Proverbs 3.27-35)By Pastor Tim Minge

A hefty second helping of weird, whimsical, wondrous, and wicked tales of the supernatural from the Zhou, Han, Liu Song, Yuan, and Qing Dynasties, for evenings when leaves quake from branches & the walls between the worlds grows thin. 0:00:00 - "Finishing Jiao's Poem" By: The One Within the Mound (Tr. Larry Hammer & Chris Stewart). 0:02:51 - "The T…

By Edgar Allen Poe [1809-1849] Published: 1845 Happy Halloween 2024! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoicesBy Chris Stewart

Send us a text With wisdom you can have fearless confidence along the journey of life not in yourself but in God. (Proverbs 3.21-26)

Send us a text Wisdom is God’s gift for you to taste now what was lost because of sin and what will be restored because of Christ. (Text: Proverbs 3.13-20)

Send us a text God disciplines His people not out of pointless frustration but out of fatherly love and with good purpose. (Text: Proverbs 3.11-12)

A trio of seasonal tales about the Korean version of the classic fox spirit, the kumiho (huli jing [CN]/kitsune [JP]) as well as their implications bout the societies they stemmed from. "The Maiden's Grave" - 02:21 "The Bone The Was a Fox" - 03:39 "The Fox Sister" - 06:22 From: Fenkl, Heinz Inzu. "Fox Wives & Other Dangerous Women." Learn more abou…

Send us a text Missionary Jim Spoto preaches about a vision-focused church from Acts 2.36-47.

The Kangxi Emperor of Great Qing squares off again Galdan Khan of the Dzungar Khanate in the sociopolitical-religio-military showdown of the late 17th century! Kangxi wants to flex his imperial muscle - in person! - up to and including enacting a "Final Solution" against the un-subdued Mongol peoples under Galdan, but the wily khan will amply demon…

Send us a text Giving is an act of worship that honors God, recognizes His faithfulness, and trusts in His continued provision. (Text: Proverbs 3.9-10)