Tag: Christmas

  • Christmas Sermon Series 2014

    December 7: “A Horn of Salvation” (Psalm 18:2; Luke 1:67-71) December 14: “To Remember His Holy Covenant” (Psalm 105:8, 9; Luke 1:72-75) December 21: “The Sunrise Shall Visit Us” (Psalm 107:10-16; Luke 1:76-79)

  • Songs Recommended for Advent Worship

    Songs Recommended for Advent Worship

    The following is a list of songs I like to sing during the Advent Season. Most of the these songs listed are approved by the URCNA, with a few deletions and additions. Hymn Words By Tune Advent of Our God, The Charles Coffin, 1736 St. Thomas, Aaron Williams, 1770 All My Heart This Night Rejoices…

  • 2013 Festival of Lessons & Carols

    Download the whole program here (PDF). You, your family, and your friends are invited to join us as we joyfully celebrate and reverently remember the greatest drama ever told: the coming of God in the flesh! We will sing classic Christmas songs such as: O Come All Ye Faithful, Angels from the Realms of Glory, and O Come, O…

  • “A Hebrew Son Cast into the Nile”

    “A Hebrew Son Cast into the Nile”

    In these two great events, the ark and the basket are foreshadows of our Lord Jesus Christ, who offered his body and blood to save his people from slavery to sin.

  • First Sunday of Advent 2013: “A Hebrew Son Cast into the Nile”

    First Sunday of Advent 2013: “A Hebrew Son Cast into the Nile”

    “When the child grew older, she brought him to Pharaoh’s daughter, and he became her son. She named him Moses, “Because,” she said, ‘I drew him out of the wate’r” (Exodus 2:10). “She will bear a son, and you shall call his name Jesus, for he will save his people from their sins” (Matthew 1:21).

  • A Lion Born with a Scepter

    A Lion Born with a Scepter

    But like Judah, Jesus was willing to sacrifice his own life for his brothers and sisters. He willingly shed his blood on the accursed cross for the sins of his people. On his way to Calvary, he carried a tree, figuratively a “scepter” of sacrifice.

  • The Only Son Blesses All the Nations

    The Only Son Blesses All the Nations

    Be comforted with these words, “He who did not spare his own Son but gave him up for us all, how will he not also with him graciously give us all things? (Rom 8:32)

  • Liturgy for Imus and Pasig—December 16, 2012

    Liturgy for Imus and Pasig—December 16, 2012

    The Announcement of the Fulfillment

  • Christmas in Genesis

    Christmas in Genesis

    This Advent season, I’m planning to start a Christmas series one week earlier, on November 18. There will be three sermons on a mini-series, “Christmas in Genesis.”

  • Born to Be “Like His Brothers in Every Respect”

    Born to Be “Like His Brothers in Every Respect”

    Notwithstanding images of a “super baby” at his birth, Jesus was like any other baby born in this world by a woman. We hear cute little children in Christmas pageants singing, “The cattle are lowing, the baby awakes, but little Lord Jesus, no crying he makes.” No, the baby Jesus did cry.