Welcome to 2025

The Encouragers Theme for 2025
First, let us thank the Lord for 2024. The Lord gave us that Year as the Year of Joy, of Rejoicing, a Year of Worship, a Year of Thanksgiving. And as we believed, so we experienced. Let us now count our blessings and carefully heed God’s Word for 2025 so that we may again be beneficiaries of His Grace in 2025 and the years to come.

The Theme for 2025
In this Year 2025, the Children of God are called upon to consecrate ourselves and sanctify ourselves. In other words, we must intentionally set ourselves apart for God in 2025. We are urged to present ourselves as living sacrifices holy and acceptable to The Lord

The Scripture Guide is Joshua 7. 
Let us read and study Scripture in its entirety, with particular reference to verses 10-13. Sin must be exposed and dealt with, individually and in the Body of Christ. Everyone must confront sin individually, and the Church must deal with the issue of sin without hypocrisy so that the people of God may regain our Strength, which comes only from God. 

There will be a Visitation! Pray that we do not miss the Hour of our Visitation! Luke 19:42-44.  

How do people of God consecrate themselves?

• Presenting ourselves as Living Sacrifices holy and acceptable as unto The Lord. Romans 12;1.
• Total submission to God in all departments of our lives.
• The things under the ban in our closets must be brought out burnt.
• Given to fervent Prayer and the Study of the Word.  2 Timothy 3:16-17; Hebrew 4:12

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The Ten Commandments: List, Biblical Origin, Meaning and Catholic Understanding

As important as the Ten Commandments were in the Old Testament, we can’t fully appreciate their meaning without understanding them in relation to Jesus.

As the Catechism tells us, “Beginning with the Old Testament, the sacred books refer to the ‘ten words,’ but it is in the New Covenant in Jesus Christ that their full meaning will be revealed.”

Being a follower of Jesus means following, not forgetting, the commandments.

“The Law has not been abolished (Mt 5:17),” the Catechism teaches us, “but rather, man is invited to rediscover it in the person of his Master who is its perfect fulfilment.”

The first three Commandments refer to love of God; the next seven, love of neighbor. When Jesus is challenged by the Pharisees in Matthew 22, he summarizes the Ten Commandments into two concise directives.

“You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your mind. This is the great and first commandment. And a second is like it, You shall love your neighbor as yourself. On these two commandments depend all the law and the prophets.”

These two instructions, sometimes called the Greatest Commandments, complement each other and beckon us to allow our love for God to move us to do His will and be His hands and feet here on earth.

“The love of God always comes first,” writes Brother Silas Henderson, SDS. “Our response to that love should take us outside of ourselves as we are asked to share with others the love and compassion that we have received from God.”

To understand the connection between the Ten Commandments and Jesus is to recognize God at work in humanity across thousands of years.

The Ten Commandments continue to be relevant, and popes through the years have helped guide us through a contemporary understanding of them.

Spring 2025 Bible Study

Theme: Stubborn Faith:  Heroes of the Christian Faith – {Ancient and Modern}.

In today’s world, Christians need stubborn faith. It’s helpful to look at those who demonstrated such faith in the face of overwhelming challenges. Therefore, over the next few weeks, we will study the lives of those who passed down the Christian faith to us.

What is stubborn faith? Let’s start with what it is not. Stubborn faith is:

• Not about stiff-necked people who are simply set in their ways.
• Not about those who resist the Holy Spirit, uncircumcised in heart.
• Not about those who know the truth but stubbornly refuse to follow it, knowingly committing sin and continuing in it.

Stubborn faith is about:

• As Stanley often preached, God rewarded it (Phil 1:27; Rom 5:1-2; Eph 4:5, 16).
• Not being deceived by humanistic persuasion.
• Being guided by the unseen rather than the seen. As the saying goes, biblically based stubborn faith “sees the invisible, believes the incredible, and receives the impossible.”

Join us as we study God’s word every Monday from February 24th to May 5th.

Join us at 2 PM EST, 8 PM WAT, or 7 PM BST.

All are welcome!