Category: Preaching
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The Misery of the Rich
My first sermon in 2020! Given during the Ikthus East-Bacolod City Midweek Service, January 1, 2020. James 5:1-6 ESV [1] Come now, you rich, weep and howl for the miseries that are coming upon you. [2] Your riches have rotted and your garments are moth-eaten. [3] Your gold and silver have corroded, and their corrosion […]
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The New Jerusalem
“Then I saw a new heaven and a new earth, for the first heaven and the first earth had passed away, and the sea was no more. And I saw the holy city, new Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God, prepared as a bride adorned for her husband. And I heard a loud voice […]
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Dealing With Spiritual Failure
You have no right to give up on yourself when God has no intention of giving up on you.
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On Lay-Preachers
A faithful man . . . being furnished with the knowledge of God and the requisite Spiritual gifts for the edification of others (graciously bestowed upon him by God), and also having the time and other things necessary for the right performance of this duty granted him by providence, then I certainly would allow him […]
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Brotherly Love
Ikthus East 8:00 a.m. service January 14, 2018 The Porch, Lopue’s East Bacolod City, Philippines 1 Thessalonians 4:1–2 [1] Finally, then, brothers, we ask and urge you in the Lord Jesus, that as you received from us how you ought to walk and to please God, just as you are doing, that you do so […]
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Ikthus East Sermon: 3 December 2017
THE HOLY SPIRIT AND SEXUAL IMMORALITY (HOLINESS – Part 2) 1 Thessalonians 4:1–8 [1] Finally, then, brothers, we ask and urge you in the Lord Jesus, that as you received from us how you ought to walk and to please God, just as you are doing, that you do so more and more. [2] For […]
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Ikthus East Sermon, 12 November 2017
HOLINESS Text: 1 Thessalonians 4:1–8 [1] Finally, then, brothers, we ask and urge you in the Lord Jesus, that as you received from us how you ought to walk and to please God, just as you are doing, that you do so more and more. [2] For you know what instructions we gave you through […]
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Ikthus East Sermon, 10 September 2017
SPIRITUAL GROWTH AND THE WORD OF GOD Therefore, put away all filthiness and rampant wickedness and receive with meekness the implanted word, which is able to save your souls. (James 1:21) Like newborn infants, long for the pure spiritual milk, that by it you may grow up into salvation. (1 Peter 2:2) But he answered, […]
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Liberating Grace
(Easter Sunday Message, 16 April 2017, given to the congregation of Ikthus East, Bacolod City) Text: Romans 6:1-14 Introduction: The Christian’s greatest sorrow is the fact that he still has to struggle against the remnants of sin in his life. But Christ has not left him helpless in this regard. By virtue of his resurrection […]
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How To Build Up God’s Church
(A message given during the Ikthus East Family Retreat last 12 April 2017 at Buenos Aires, Mountain Resort, Bago City, Negros Occidental, Philippines) “Unless the Lord builds the house, those who build it labor in vain. Unless the Lord watches over the city, the watchman stays awake in vain.” (Psalm 127:1) The church is God’s […]
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