Agape Ministries International Podcast - Ep. 001
Shalom! Throughout history times and seasons have always been very important for mankind. In fact, the Bible is written around times and seasons, and I believe it is because timing is significant to enter into God’s perfect moment and move forward in step with Him. Tonight, at sundown is the beginning of the feast of Hanukkah, a time and season God has designed for His people to enter into His special presence. I invite you to listen to this podcast to understand the meaning and the significance of Hanukkah. The podcast ends with an intro of an exciting Bible study that starts next week. God bless you!
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Thursday Sep 01, 2022
Thursday Sep 01, 2022
Wednesday Aug 17, 2022
Wednesday Aug 17, 2022
Our last chapter in our discipleship study through the letters to the churches in the region of Galatians, Paul encourages the believers not to tire to help those who are struggling. In our previous chapter, Paul exposed a false teaching that was leading these particular churches into sin. Paul asks the believers, unaffected by the false teachings and the right track with their relationship with God, to help the believers who were overcome by sin. He instructs them to do this with fruits of love, by being being gentle and humble.
Wednesday Aug 10, 2022
Wednesday Aug 10, 2022
The issue Paul was addressing was the false gospel from some Jewish believers who were preaching that gentiles need to follow the law of circumcision in order to be truly born again - which was taking them away from the freedom in Christ. Throughout the previous chapters, Paul labored by telling these churches why that was a false gospel, teaching them about the origin of the Jewish laws and un the case of this letter to the gentile churches, the ceremonial law of circumcision. He taught them the purpose of these Jewish laws and why they were necessary.
Thursday Aug 04, 2022
Thursday Aug 04, 2022
In this chapter, Apostle Paul continues from the previous chapter, where he spoke about the law as protection and a guardian for Gods children - the Jewish people, until Christ came. Paul also speaks on his concern for the Galatian gentile believers.
Wednesday Jul 27, 2022
Wednesday Jul 27, 2022
In the previous chapter, Apostle Paul reminded the churches from the region of Galatia that we are made right in God through faith in Christ and not through the flesh or works. In this chapter he goes further, first exposing their deception from what they already knew and what he had already taught them.
Tuesday Jul 19, 2022
Tuesday Jul 19, 2022
In the previous study, we ended with Apostle Paul in his testimony about his zeal to minister the gospel without much of a relationship with the first apostles - except for a brief visit with Peter and James. In this chapter, he continues to say that after 14 years of preaching the gospel, he travelled with Barabbas and Titus to meet with the first Apostles, share what he was preaching and wanting to know if they were in agreement. And, they were. They supported Paul and did not even demand that Titus- a gentile believer who was raised outside of Jewish customaries, should be circumcised - a topic we delve into much more in this chapter.
Friday Jul 15, 2022
Friday Jul 15, 2022
Today, in our discipleship study, we are looking at Galatians Chapter 1 of Apostle Paul's letters to the churches in the region of Galatia. These were part of the churches Paul started during his first missionary with Barabbas in various cities in this region. In this letter, Apostle Paul expresses his shock to what was happening in the churches in Galatia in reminding them of his testimony, from persecuting followers of The Lord Jesus Christ, to spreading the very same gospel they followed.
Tuesday Jul 05, 2022
Tuesday Jul 05, 2022
In this episode, we will dive into Apostle Paul's first missionary trip to the cities of Galatia as well as the letter sent to the many churches brought up on their journey. A main reason Paul writes this letter to the Galatian churches is that they were succumbing to Jewish false teachings, undermining the central New Testament doctrine of justification by faith, by specifically teaching that gentiles must first become Jewish and submit to all Mosaic Law to become Christian. Paul wrote this letter to counter that teaching and to defend justification by faith alone.
Wednesday Jun 29, 2022
Wednesday Jun 29, 2022
Today, in our discipleship study we doing the introduction of Apostle Paul's letter to the churches in the region of Galatia. We will do the introduction in two parts. First, a brief history of Galatia from before the gospel until today. Second, a brief recall of Apostle Paul's mission trips to the Galatian churches as a background.
Our background
AMI was founded by Mr. Sikhumbuzo Mkhize and Mrs. Bonani Mkhize in March 2008. Over a period of 30 years prior, they have two diplomas from bible training, have served as Board members of a local church in Cape Town, served as senior leaders in a church in KwaZulu-Natal, as well as served in Prison ministry and International Prayer movement in Africa. AMI is a family of ministries with different assignments but with the same vision to spread the Gospel of Jesus Christ to the nations.