Announcements
Week of December 14, 2025
Lord's Day - 12/14
Lord's Table and prophesying meeting at the hall, also children's and young people's meetings
Love feast
Hall cleaning by all the saints and serving groups' prayer and coordination
Tuesday - 12/16
Corporate prayer meetings at the hall in person and also on Zoom
Lord's Day - 12/21
Lord's Table and prophesying meeting at the hall, also children's and young people's meetings
Hall cleaning by all the saints with last names beginning with D - J
Holy word for morning revival
December 15 - 21
HWMR: The Preparation of the Bride, Week 1, "The Bride—
the Goal of the Lord’s Recovery" - $5.00 each.
PursuiNG THE TRUTH
December 15 - 21
Read Life-Study of Ephesians, Message 21 - "Saved by Grace to Be
the Masterpiece of God" and Message 22 - "Once Far Off, But Now Near"
To help you develop a habit of reading the Life-studies for your
spiritual nourishment and growth in Christ, download and
use the 500 Life-Studies app on your phone by using this link.
To read the Life-study messages for Ephesians online at Living Stream
Ministry, click this link.
To listen to the Life-study of the Bible Radio Broadcast for Ephesians
online at Living Stream Ministry, click this link.
December 15 - 21
Read the first four sections of Chapter Two of The Prayer Ministry
of the Church
Conferences, Trainings, & MEETINGS
December 22-27
December 25, 2025 - January 11, 2026
Semiannual Live Training, Anaheim
Semiannual Video Training in Tampa covering the
General Subject of Experiencing, Enjoying, and Expressing
Christ (4) as seen in the book of Revelation. Download a copy
of the training schedule by clicking on this link.
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* The messages from the 2025 International Thanksgiving Blending Conference, on the subject of The All-inclusive Christ as Revealed in Matthew, will be available to view on the LSM Webcast site, lsmwebcast.com. The archived videos of the six messages can be watched for free for a period of 30 days after the conference.
* Southeast Labor Day 2025 Conference audio and video messages Revelation and Praise are available using this link. The outlines can be downloaded here.
* Ministry Propagation fellowship shared in Tampa on June 1, 2025
Session 1 - The audio recording can be listened to using this link and the outline that was used as the basis for the sharing can be downloaded here.
Session 2 - The video recording can be watched using this link.
* To setup a recurring monthly gift through Zelle with your bank for the purpose of supporting the saints sent from the Southeast who are serving in Europe, use this address: southeastchurches@gmail.com.
Also, the following link is intended to facilitate the giving of the saints in the Southeast churches to meet this need: https://southeastchurches.us/.
* At the Living Stream Ministry website - lsm.org - click on Free Resources and then on "Quick Links for our Daily Life" at the bottom of the list or go there directly using this link. The option for free "eBooklets to Download and Share with Friends" is in the bottom left hand corner.
A recommended eBooklet to read yourself and then share with someone else this week is The Bible- a Romance of a Universal Couple. "Many today view the Bible in various ways, but few have ever considered the Bible as a romance. In this eBooklet taken from Life-study of Romans, Witness Lee shows from both the Old and New Testaments that the Bible is a romance in the purest and holiest sense. It presents the love relationship between a universal couple—God in Christ as the Bridegroom and His redeemed people as His Bride.”
* Books that everyone should read at https://www.rhemabooks.org/en/free-christian-books/
Basic Elements of the Christian Life - Volume One:
1) The Mystery of Human Life
2) The Assurance, Security, and Joy of Salvation
3) The Precious Blood of Christ
4) Calling on the Name of the Lord
5) The Key to Experiencing Christ
Basic Elements of the Christian Life - Volume Two:
6) A Time With the Lord
7) A Simple Way to Touch the Lord
8) Deep Calls Unto Deep
Basic Elements of the Christian Life - Volume Three:
9) Two Principles of Living
10) The Way to Build Up the Church
11) Pray-reading the Word
Upcoming Events
* Here in the Southeast & beyond - See the Calendar at this link.
* Carolinas Blending Conference Jan. 17-18, 2026. See the invitation by clicking on this link.
EXCERPTS FROM THE MINISTRY
DEAD IN OFFENSES AND SINS
"In this message we shall be concerned with the first three verses of Ephesians chapter two. Verse 1 says that we were dead in our offenses and sins. The words “being dead” refer to the dead condition of our spirit, a death that pervades our entire being. We were not only fallen and sinful; we were dead. Offenses are acts that overstep the limit of right, and sins are evil doings. It was from such a background of death in our offenses and sins that we were saved to be the church, the Body. The dead have been made alive to be a living organism to express Christ.
When we were dead in offenses and sins, we walked according to the age, the modern appearance, the present course, of the world, the satanic system. Once we walked according to the current of the present age. When we were dead in our offenses and sins, we were not only active in following the age of this world; we also walked according to the ruler of the authority of the air, of the spirit who is now operating in the sons of disobedience. Above us there is the sphere ruled by Satan, the ruler of the authority of the air. Not many Christians have an adequate understanding of this evil power in the air. The entire earth is under the domination of this spirit in the air. This evil spirit, this evil atmosphere, is the cause of crimes, murders, and even suicides. It influences people to do evil things which, as humans, they would not normally do. The source of this evil is in the spirit, the atmosphere, which dominates them. This spirit is now operating in the sons of disobedience, in those who are disobedient to God. When we were dead in our offenses and sins, we also behaved according to the lusts of our flesh, doing the desires not only of the flesh but also of the thoughts.
Three evil things, the age of this world outside of us, the ruler of the aerial authority above and within us, and the lusts of our flesh in our fallen nature, dominated our life. From these evil things we have been saved to become the Body of Christ.
The world is outside of us, the lusts are within us, and the evil spiritual atmosphere is both above us and within us. It is impossible for dead people to escape from these three realms. By nature, all men are sons of disobedience and children of wrath, under God’s judgment. When we were dead in offenses and sins, this was our condition as well. Praise the Lord that the church has been brought forth from such a realm of death! We have been saved to become the Body of Christ. Now we are no longer in these three realms; instead, we are in Christ, in the Spirit, and in the heavenlies. The church has been brought forth out of such a miserable source. Hallelujah, although we were dead and in such a deplorable condition, we have been saved to become the Body of Christ! What a salvation!" (Life-study of Ephesians, pp. 171-178)