Welcome to Zion Cornerstone Reformed Church (Pasig)
Proclaiming the historic Christian faith in Metro Manila and beyond
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“Who Sent the Earthquake and the Tsunami?”
“The eagle has landed!” Russel’s own words of joy. We praise God that Donna and the four boys have landed at Los Angeles International! It was a joy to see Donna and her four boys off at NAIA at 4 am yesterday for their 8 am flight to Narita Airport, and then on to their…
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Exhortations and a Prayer for Peace Through Sanctification
You did not choose God out of your own free will. God did not give you a new heart because you decided to have faith and repent of your sin. Your righteousness was given to you by Christ because you were chosen by God from eternity—he is the only perfectly righteous person—and not because you…
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“The Marcions Have Landed!”
“Often nothing seems to earn the scorn and derision of others more than the suggestion that more psalms should be sung in worship.”—Carl Trueman I imagine that many first-time visitors to our church who come from mainstream evangelical backgrounds leave after the service with these impressions: “Strange! It felt like a Roman Catholic service, with…
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“Since You are Children of the Day, the Second Coming Should not Surprise You Like a Thief in the Night”
As dual citizens—sojourners and exiles in this world, but members of God’s holy nation—you are to be ready, living holy and godly lives, using the weapons of faith, love and hope so you may persevere until he comes. Be assured that Christ will complete the good work he has begun in you because he has…
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“Encourage One Another with These Words About the Resurrection”
At the close of the age, all human beings who ever lived in this world will be resurrected together. Christ will then separate them: one group for eternal heaven, the other group for eternal hell. If the first resurrection happens 1,007 years before the second, the above texts picturing a separation between the two groups…
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God’s Love: “A Still More Excellent Way”
1 Corinthians 13 has nothing to do with sentimental love, romance, and courtship. Instead, it contains a rebuke from Paul against the Corinthians’ various violations of God’s directives for loving God and neighbor.
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A Pastor’s Prayer for His Church
As true brotherly love increases and abounds more and more, it is also accompanied by “knowledge and all discernment.” It is not blind love. We do not love for the sake of love, just as we do not unite for the sake of unity.
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Why Learn the Biblical Languages?
“It enables you to have a conversation with somebody from thousands of years ago [if] you understand the languages in which they were speaking, or in this case, in which the Scriptures were written.”—Dr. Bryan Estelle, Associate Professor of Old Testament, Westminster Seminary in California
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Which of the Ten Commandments Did Adam Break?
When Adam ate of the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil, which of the Decalogue did he break?
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Reformed: More Than the 5 Points of Jesus and the Apostles
So many people have weighed in the issue of what is Reformed Christianity, or what’s a Reformed church, or who’s Reformed. About four years ago, John MacArthur delivered a scathing attack on Reformed amillennialism entitled, “Why Every Self-Respecting Calvinist is a Premillennialist.” Worse, his rant was a bad misrepresentation of amillennialism in a conference where…
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