Draw Me Close To You (Psalm 145:17-21) | Pastor Rein Arlegui, July 12, 2026

If we listen in silence, our hearts cry out: DRAW ME CLOSE TO YOU. Before we start seeking God, He has been seeking us all along. It is in God's seeking that we discover His intimate love.

1. Seek Righteousness and Truth vv. 17-18

2. Stand in Reverence and Love vv. 19-20

3. Speak Praise and Glory Forever v.21

Let us embark on a journey of intimacy with God. Recognize His righteousness and truth as the foundation of our lives, stand in reverence and love that allows His salvation to transform us, and let our voices rise in praise and glory that endures forever. Drawing close to God is a lifelong rhythm. To live in truth, to walk in reverence, and to proclaim His greatness forever.

God Is Our Desire (Ps 37:4-7) | Dr. Herman Moldez, July 5, 2026

The July 2026 series helps to awaken that GOD IS OUR DESIRE. But desire must be purified so that our longing is to seek God's face alone.

Desire is a beautiful gift to live. We are created with desire we feel in the senses and in our soul. Sadly, we always have low spiritual appetite to seek and enjoy God.

In Psalm 37:4-7, the spiritual life is a joy to DELIGHT in God. We taste and see how good He is by learning to DEPEND on God. As we trust God's way, we desire to follow Him; we flow by faith.

But desire is deceptive for it tends to seek the false self controlled by the flesh. Spiritual practices of DEVOTION to God train us to desire on God alone.

We learn to desire the God we love. We seek Him where He has been seeking us in love. In what ways your life is deeply longing for God?

Living The Way of Christ (Eph. 4:20-28) | Rev. Herman Moldez, June 21, 2026

Christ is fully alive through His followers sent into the world to make him known where they live and work. How do you make known Christ through your life and work such that people are attracted to Christ?

Knowing Jesus Christ is a game changer. It renews our perspective to a radical practice of living.

1. Learn a new mindset

2. Live a new movement

3. Led by a new Master

The way of Christ is a path we are called to walk. It is the way of holiness being made new by the power of the Holy Spirit.

God Who Became Like One of Us (Heb. 2:10-18) | Rev. Herman Moldez, June 14, 2026

In becoming human, Jesus Christ became the New Adam to reclaim our role as God's co-ruler of creation and unite as one family of God. As Lord of all things, He sets us free from demonic powers by crucifixion. What does it mean to be fully human in Christ?

It is a total mystery how the holy Son of God embraces humanity in weakness and humility.

However, the secret of salvation from sin towards sanctification is the incarnation of the Son of God in the person of Jesus Christ.

We can only become like Jesus Christ because he becomes like one of us without being ashamed to call us his family and friends (11b-13).

We may not have great status in the world but we are the sons and daughters of God, His beloved from all eternity. Our dignity does not depend on people liking us but of Jesus becoming like one of us without shame.

Jesus Christ continues to live with us to accompany us in our journey (14-16). It is a paradox, yet Jesus Christ's death, made possible in becoming fully human, defeated the power of the devil. We are free to live in holiness.

Jesus is our example to face life's trouble and temptation without sinning and if we do, he fully understands how it is to be human. We are not alone with Jesus Christ who abides with us by his Spirit dwelling in our hearts.

Jesus leads for us, not in the way of success but through suffering to become saints (10-11). He pioneers how to be holy in being fully human, imperfect but in the process of purification through pain.

Jesus Christ is our hero to become fully human, created in the image of God. Divine bloodline flows in our vein. We are granted with royal status as children of the kingdom of God.

How are you living your divine bloodline in being fully human like Jesus Christ?

Jesus the Messiah (Mat. 16:13-20) | Ptr. Rein Arlegui, June 7, 2026

Different people have different ways of saying who Jesus Christ is. But for us, Jesus is the Messiah building His church, the people who confess His reign to advance the Kingdom of God. How do we confess that Jesus is the Christ ordained to rule our lives and all the world?

1. Place Our Hope in Him vv.13-14

2. Declare Our Faith in Him vv.15-16

3. Build Our Life on Him vv.17-20

Different people have different ways of saying who Jesus Christ is. But for us, Jesus is the Messiah building His church, the people who confess His reign to advance the Kingdom of God.

How do we confess that Jesus is the Christ ordained to rule our lives and all the world?

Living the Fruit of the Holy Spirit (John 15:1-8) | Ptr. Rein Arlegui, May 31, 2026

The metaphor of the fruit of the Spirit comes from Jesus’ parable of the True Vine and branches. The fruits are evidence of living relationship with Jesus Christ. How can the fruit of the Spirit live in all areas of life?

1. Pruned to Become Fruitful, vv. 1-2

2. Faithful to Remain Fruitful, vv. 3-5

3. Discipled to Walk Fruitful, vv. 6-8

As true disciples of Christ, how do you live out the fruit of the Holy Spirit in every part of your life allowing God to prune what hinders you, remaining faithful by abiding in Him, and walking daily in such a way that others can see the evidence of His life in you?

"LIVE and BE LED BY THE SPIRIT" (Gal. 5:16-18) | Rev. Herman Moldez, May 24, 2026

We all struggle in the inner forces within. The fleshly self is so powerful making it so difficult to live in the will of God. How can we follow Jesus Christ to show that we are truly Christ’s disciples? We need to learn how to live by the Spirit and be led by the Spirit.

Following Jesus to remain faithful to finish well requires the Spirit's direction. The Holy Spirit is our guide in pursuit of God's purpose and pleasure. We rely on the Spirit's power to resist the fleshly desire as we allow ourselves to be acted upon.

1. Follow the Spirit

2. Fight by the Spirit

3. Flow in the Spirit

What distracts you to live and be led by the Holy Spirit?

Life-Formation In the Holy Spirit (2Cor 3:16-18) | Rev. Herman Moldez, May 17, 2026

We are all being shaped by the world we live in. Our thoughts and behaviors are influenced by pattern of this world so that the institutional church is no different for its surrounding culture rather than of Christ. If we live by the Holy Spirit, we will be slowly formed to be like Christ, being redeemed to becoming fully human in the image of God.

Life is vulnerable to forces shaping the person's being where character, good or bad, is formed. Human values are influenced by people we interact with, places where we live, and patterns of this world. Many are unaware of being developed within.

The Holy Spirit works to form our inner being in the image of God to become like Jesus Christ. Spiritual life is growing in Christlikeness through spiritual formation of the Spirit. In 2 Cor. 3: 16-18, the Holy Spirit creates a process to develop Christlikeness.

We don't grow in Christlikeness if we project an appearance that is not authentic with who we really are. The Holy Spirit creates freedom to be ourselves in the presence of God. We are free to enter in our naked self, without covering up, to seek God in the "naked now", aware and attentive of God's holy presence. We live freely with unveiled faces.

The Holy Spirit guides us to focus on God's glory. We "contemplate the Lord's glory", His beautiful character. In beholding God, we slowly become like Him. We contemplate by withdrawing in silence and solitude to be illumined by God's light to purify the darkness of our hearts.

Learning to live authentically in searching presence of the Holy Spirit and to seek God to know Him in His beauty, we experience formation in Christlikeness. Spiritual formation is a slow process, sustained by grace and sanctified by the Holy Spirit.

How will you create more sacred spaces to allow the Holy Spirit to form every part of your being become like Jesus Christ?