Oxford SDA Sabbath Service 20th December 2025

Communication team
Dec 19
4 min read

O come, let us sing unto the LORD: let us make a joyful noise to the Rock of our salvation. Let us come before His presence with thanksgiving, and make a joyful noise unto Him with psalms. For the LORD is a great GOD, and a great King above all gods. In His hand are the deep places of the earth: the strength of the hills is His also. The sea is His, and He made it: and His hands formed the dry land. O come, let us worship and bow down: let us kneel before the LORD our maker.

Psalm 95 vs 1 - 6 (KJV)

Announcements

Prayer Ministries:
1. Our Tuesday, Mid-week prayer and bible study sessions take place in-person at the Church and on Zoom. Please invite friends, and neighbours, as we stand in the gap, seeking the Lord in Prayer and bible study. We would also like to remind the church community (those who are willing and able) that we will be fasting and praying every other Tuesday of the week in our respective homes. Testimonies and breakthroughs will be shared when we meet for prayer at 7pm at Oxford Seventh-day Adventist Church.
The Church Choir: The music department is inviting new members to join the Church Choir. If you are interested, please see Bro. Kofi, Sis. Nicole, or Sis. Mutsa for more information.
Our Prison ministries team visited the Huntercombe Prison last month. The next visit will be in January (details to follow). If you wish to join and participate in the next visit, or if you need induction, please contact Sis. Patience to register (or Elder Barrett - Banbury). Please pray for this ministry as it grows from strength to strength.
While we continue to give glory to God for His remarkable blessings on our recent evangelistic campaign, the Personal Ministries team request your feedback on the 2025 campaign and suggestions for 2026 guest speakers. Please, click here to fill the feedback form. The form takes 5 mins to complete.
Pastor Tim conducts Baptismal classes for anyone who would like to be baptised or would like to participate in the studies. Please contact one of the elders or Pastor Tim on 07971186530 if you would like to take part.
Next Sabbath, 27th December, 2025:
1. Service Emphasis: Oxford SDA Church Children's Ministry
2. Eld on duty: Eld. Christopher Streete
3. Lunch: Pot luck lunch - all Church members requested to bring something (to be facilitated by Sis. Eunice, Rachel, Linda, Nyasha and Jamila).
The Women Ministries team invites all to an online/virtual Thanksgiving prayer evening on the Sunday, 28th December, 2025, 9pm to midnight. The theme of the session is, Looking back with gratitude, moving forward with hope. Zoom ID: 298 378 5890, Zoom password: ROSE.
SEC, BUC and other external announcements:
1. Latest SEC Newsletter — 19 December 2025
2. The SEC Personal Ministries Department are very pleased to share a newly launched evangelism project designed to inspire and equip our members for mission. The project is titled, Evangelism-One-On-One. This 40-part video discipleship journey is designed to move members from witnessing fearfully to witnessing faithfully. These short, powerful lessons will be released weekly, and are ideal for small group study, personal growth, or outreach preparation.

Order Of Service

09:45am - 11:00am

Sabbath School Service

09:45am - 10:00am

Welcome & Prayer

Praise and Worship

10:00am - 10:50am

Adult Lesson Review:

Church Sabbath School Session:

SS 2025 Quarter 4: Lessons of Faith from Joshua

Lesson 12: God Is Faithful!

Memory Text: “Not one word of all the good promises that the LORD had made to the house of Israel had failed; all came to pass” (Joshua 21:45, ESV).

“Satan deceives many with the plausible theory that God's love for His people is so great that He will excuse sin in them; he represents that while the threatenings of God’s word are to serve a certain purpose in His moral government, they are never to be literally fulfilled. But in all His dealings with His creatures God has maintained the principles of righteousness by revealing sin in its true character—by demonstrating that its sure result is misery and death. The unconditional pardon of sin never has been, and never will be. Such pardon would show the abandonment of the principles of righteousness, which are the very foundation of the government of God. It would fill the unfallen universe with consternation. God has faithfully pointed out the results of sin, and if these warnings were not true, how could we be sure that His promises would be fulfilled? That so-called benevolence which would set aside justice is not benevolence but weakness.

“God is the life-giver. From the beginning all His laws were ordained to life. But sin broke in upon the order that God had established, and discord followed. So long as sin exists, suffering and death are inevitable. It is only because the Redeemer has borne the curse of sin in our behalf that man can hope to escape, in his own person, its dire results.”—Ellen G. White, Patriarchs and Prophets, p. 522.