Category: Sermons
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First Sunday of Advent 2013: “A Hebrew Son Cast into the Nileâ€
“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).
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“Did Disaster Come to Tacloban City, Unless the LORD Has Done It?”
How is God able to work all things out for your good? He has used the most horrible evil deed in all of history to bring about his eternal salvation plan: the crucifixion of our Lord Jesus Christ. The Jews and Romans who crucified him were part of this plan. You are part of this…
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“Did Disaster Come to Tacloban City, Unless the LORD Has Done It?”
“God must be [have been] somewhere else or he forgot that there’s a planet called Earth.” ~ Rodrigo Duterte, mayor of Davao City
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The Feast of Booths, Water and Lights
In the next few months, thousands of people in the areas devastated by Typhoon Yolanda will experience living in tents because they have lost their homes. They hope that they can rebuild their homes. But ultimately, their hope is the Word of God who assumed human flesh to “pitch his “tent†and tabernacle with His…
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The Day of Atonement
On the Day of Atonement, we see that no one is exempted from sin—the people, the priests, and everything that man touches are unclean. The whole tabernacle is stained by sin. And sin is what makes us and the whole creation groan with typhoons, earthquakes and other natural disasters.
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Advent 2013 Sermon Series: Christmas in Exodus
Come one, come all! Invite your family and friends as we remember with joy and reverence this great event in God’s redemption plan.
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Trumpeting the Gospel of the Reformation
The good news is that Christ is the merciful, pre-eminent watchman. He knew judgment was coming upon sinners, and he sounded the gospel trumpet of forgiveness. But he himself provided the way of forgiveness when he took the blood of sinners upon his own head.
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The Gift of Pentecost (Feast of Weeks)
This gospel united all those 3,000 who believed into one “body and one Spirit… one hope… one Lord, one faith, one baptism, one God and Father of all.” They started speaking one language, as it were, the language of salvation in Christ Jesus alone.
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Christ the Firstfruits
The firstfruits of a harvest that was picked by a farmer as the best crop in his whole field was a foretaste of a great harvest. Jesus, raised from the dead by God the Father and the Holy Spirit, is the firstfruits of a great harvest of believers. Since the resurrection of Christ, a great…
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Christ Our Unleavened Bread from Heaven
The day after he was crucified, the start of the Feast of Unleavened Bread, Christ lay in a tomb, removing all the old sinful leaven of all believers, signifying a new life of holiness as God’s holy nation, the church.