Category: Church Blog
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Ang Kapahayagang Cambridge (The Cambridge Declaration)
On April 20, 1996, the Alliance of Confessing Evangelicals (ACE) met in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and issued a document called “The Cambridge Declaration.” In this document, the ACE calls all evangelicals “to turn away from the worldly methods it has come to embrace, and to recover the Biblical doctrines of the Reformation.” ANG KAPAHAYAGANG CAMBRIDGE PART 1 –…
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Prayers for the Sick
Our church has recently experienced a rash of sickness, some of them serious, among members and families of members. I thought these prayers from various Books of Common Prayer will be useful in praying for them in our personal prayer times. § In Time of Great Sickness and Mortality MOST MIGHTY AND MERCIFUL GOD, to…
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Mike Brown Preaching at Pasig Covenant Reformed Church
After the Reformation Conference “Exploring Covenant Theology” on October 24-25, 2014, Rev. Mike Brown will be our guest preacher during a special Saturday evening service. Date & Time: Saturday, October 25, 2014 • 6:00-7:00 PM Meeting Place: Touch Community Baptist Church, corner Sunset Drive and Pacific Avenue, Brookside Hills, Cainta, Rizal. For location map and directions,…
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I don’t know about you, but my utmost desire is to be… LEFT BEHIND!
The following is excerpted from an article I wrote back on June 22, 2011. § A man and wife asleep in bed, She hears a noise and turns her head he’s gone. I wish we’d all been ready. Two men walking up a hill, One disappears and one’s left standing still. I wish we’d all…
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7 Reasons from 2 Thessalonians 1 Why the Left Behind Movies are Pure Sci-Fi
This is evidence of the righteous judgment of God, that you may be considered worthy of the kingdom of God, for which you are also suffering—6 since indeed God considers it just to repay with affliction those who afflict you, 7 and to grant relief to you who are afflicted as well as to us,…
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5 Reasons Why No One Else Can be the Son of God Except Jesus
Since Jesus came into the world 2,000 years ago, no century has passed in which no man has claimed to be Jesus, or the Christ, or the Son of God. But the most impudent blasphemer that I know of is Apollo Quiboloy, who has appropriated for himself the title “The Appointed Son of God.” How can anyone…
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Of “Here I am! Send me,” Megachurches, and Minichurches
Many churches filled pews because there was little in their services to make unregenerate people feel legitimately uncomfortable… True success in the Lord’s eyes is faithfulness, not numbers. Most Christians, when they respond to God’s call to service in a church or in a Christian organization, often quote this passage from Isaiah 6:8. This willingness…
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6 of 20 Federal Vision Errors Derived from Flattening the Covenants of Works and Grace
At the 73rd General Assembly in 2007 of the Orthodox Presbyterian Church, the Committee to Study the Doctrine of Justification issued a “Report on Justification,” saying in the conclusion, The Committee believes that the following points that are held by some one or the other advocates of FV [Federal Vision] are out of accord with Scripture…
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“What’s Really at Stake”
What happens when we collapse the covenant of works into the covenant of grace? We end up invariably with “Law” that is not really law and “Gospel” that is not really gospel, but a confusion of the two. © 2001 Michael Horton This was written (or delivered) sometime before the Synod of the United…
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The Nine Points of the 2007 URCNA Synod
 By the 2007 Synod of the United Reformed Churches in North America Schereville, Indiana Abbreviations: HC—Heidelberg Catechism; BC—Belgic Confession; CD—Canons of Dort; RE—Canon’s of Dort’s Rejection of Errors These Nine Points were affirmed by the URCNA to counter the growing influence of the Federal Vision (FV) movement within Reformed churches. For those of you…