Activities from June 11-15, 2012

July 11, in our midweek service, brother Rody shared to us a summary on the book of Psalms before we move on to the book of Proverbs. It’s been 3 years since we started to study the book of Psalms and I am happy to end it with a lot of things that I’ve learned. He taught particularly on the prophecy of Christ in the Psalms and fulfilled in the New Testament. This is the first time that I heard the list of Christ’s prophecy in this book, I only knew some before. That’s why I love to join activities and listen to every lesson.

July 12, I preached in the radio program about “Denominations”. A listener sent a text message asking about this question “Is the Church of Christ a denomination?” I tried to answer the question and I hope I gave the best answer coming from the bible.

July 14, a brethren from Palca was here in Tuguegarao on this day. They stayed in the apartment of a one of the student who is also from Palca. I went to them for a visit and also shared some encouraging words from the bible. They where brother Junix and sister Melissa who was recently bore a child but unluckily their child died. They are also the ones who on August 2011 had a miscarriage on their first babies (should be twins). And just last month, their expected child (boy) also died before the delivery. When I received their text message informing me about the situation, for few minutes, I have been looking to an open space and was blank. I respect this couple because of the great faith they have. After that, they still continued on going to church because they know, God might have a greater plan for them. I went to visit them because they are already moving to Imus, Cavite this week, about 13 hours travel from here. I am trying to contact preachers from Manila if they know about any congregation in that area, but none responded yet. I gave Junix tracts that he might use to share also the Church Jesus’ built and the gospel of salvation. I ask for your prayers for them.

July 15, in our Lord’s day here in Tuguegarao, brother Jun answered a question in our bible study about the verses in John 14:2-4, Rev. 21:10-12, Rev. 3:11-12, 2 Pet. 3:10-14 and Isa. 65:17 if they are all the same place. The answer was concluded by brother Rody as they are not same, it is heaven, church, church, heaven where God is and church respectively. In the sermon, brother Rody preached about “Smoking: Is it bad or a sin?” In our country right now, an actor who was known as the Comedy King just died. He was a good example to all Filipinos because of his humility, but he died because of frequent smoking that leads to major complications in his organs. Brother Rody shared this lesson to examine whether it is bad or a sin. Of course it is bad to our health and also leads to a sin of uncleanness. In our service, we have a visitor who was a Pentecostal Pastor with his whole family in attendance. They also went with brother Rody in Maguirig and in the afternoon, they decided to be baptized into Christ There were four of them and Lord wiling, they will be joining us again on worship next Sunday before trying to start a new congregation in their town.

In the afternoon, at Palca, brother Abraham Yuson taught in our bible study about “Death” particularly on the physical sense. In the sermon, I added about spiritual death to conclude the first study and also preached about “Way of Cain”. The things he did from vain worship to taking his brother’s life until leaving the presence of the Lord. The way he did was told in Jude 11 that we should not follow. When we sin, we should repent and not let the sin grow.