What Child is This?
- Dec
- 24
This Child is the Eternal King, the Better Prophet, and the Great High Priest “What Child is This?” is one of the more Biblical modern Christmas hymns. It came from a longer Christmas poem, “The Manger Throne,” written by William C. Dix, an English lay hymnwriter about 1865. The melody “Greensleeves” is a traditional English folk tune. […]
Liturgy for Christmas Day Worship 2016
- Dec
- 22
Everyone welcome to our regular worship service on Sunday, December 26, 2016. The service will incorporate a Festival of Lessons and Carols, which includes seven Scripture readings and seven Christmas carols. This historic service engages our minds and hearts as the drama of redemption is proclaimed to us from Genesis to Revelation. We hear Scriptures […]
Joint Christmas Service and Fellowship
- Nov
- 28
On December 11, 2016, 2-6 PM, our Pasig and Imus congregations will hold a joint Christmas Service and Fellowship. The venue is Villar Sipag Center, C-5 Extension Road, Brgy Pulang Lupa I, Las Pinas, MM. All are welcome to join our commemoration of the Incarnation of Savior and Lord Jesus Christ! Here’s the Google Maps […]
Songs for 2016 Anniversary Worship Service
- Aug
- 26
Here are the five songs we’ll be singing at our Joint Anniversary Worship Service (Imus and Pasig) on August 28, 2016. Links to tunes are also included for learning or just to sing along. The first song is “Praise to the Lord, the Almighty” tune: Lobe den Herren 1 Praise to the Lord, the Almighty, the […]
Good Friday Service of Lessons and Psalms & Hymns
- Mar
- 15
Everyone is invited to our Good Friday Service of Lessons and Psalms & Hymns. When: March 25 at 10:30AM Where: Our meeting place at TCBC, Sunset Drive and Pacific Avenue, Brookside Hills, Cainta, Rizal This special worship service will be held in order for us to hear the events of our Lord’s suffering, death, and burial, […]
7 Markers Pointing to Ruth’s and Boaz’s Purity at the Threshing Floor
- Mar
- 08
No other book in the Bible has a scene that provokes a reader‘s wild imaginations like that of Ruth and Boaz in Ruth Chapter 3. It describes a man and a woman lying together at the threshing floor at midnight, rife with suggestions of a sexual encounter, as depicted by Marc Chagall’s painting below. Did they or […]
5 Reasons Why Your Church Must Stop Saying, “Come As You Are”
- Feb
- 25
Almost all churches invite people to “come as you are.” It’s difficult to read what this invitation really means to these churches, since the Bible never says anything like this. Yes, the Bible offers an invitation to sinners to come to Christ: “Incline your ear, and come to me; hear, that your soul may live” (Isa […]
How Ruth and Naomi Found Rest
- Dec
- 31
This is the gist of the sermon at a PCA church in Newport Beach, California last Sunday, while we visited our son and his family. (Last paragraph is mine.) “The Lord grant that you may find rest, each of you in the house of her husband!” (Ruth 1:9). This is what Naomi said to Orpah […]
Commendation of Our Worship Service Bulletin
- Nov
- 14
Recently, a visiting minister from the States noticed the worship service bulletins of Pasig and Imus Zion Cornerstone Reformed Church. He appreciated that our bulletin had a short explanation of each element/circumstance of the worship service. He also commended our adherence to the Regulative Principle of Worship’s dialogical format of worship. Here’s our most […]