First Orthodox Reformed Protestant Church, Bulacan

19/05/2026

"This is always the issue between true and false doctrine: God or man...When one does not want man to be what he really is—nothing—he conceives of salvation that depends on the acceptance of natural man...The reason men do not want man to be nothing is they do not want God to be all."
-Homer Hoeksema (The Voice of Our Fathers: 251)

16/05/2026

May 17, 2026 CHURCH BULLETIN

10/05/2026

MAY 10, 2026 CHURCH BULLETIN

05/05/2026

"We have on the pages of Sword and Shield demonstrated the Protestant Reformed corruption of the gospel.

We have pointed out and condemned the familiar corrupt statements and those who have made them. We know of Professor Engelsma’s doctrine that man repents and believes for his justification; that God cannot and will not forgive a man unless and until he repents; and that man is first, and God is second. We are familiar with slippery McGeown’s statement that faith is man’s act and not God’s act. We are familiar with Cammenga’s massacre of Lord’s Day 7 and its teaching about faith. We are familiar with Koole’s doctrine that faith is what man must do to be saved. We have shuddered at and condemned Gritters’ doctrine of unforgiveness: The elect are unforgiven in eternity; they are unforgiven at the cross; and they are unforgiven unless and until they actively repent and actively believe. And we are familiar with the Protestant Reformed doctrine of faith as that which man does to be justified, that man must be active in his faith to be justified. We have heard about the PRC’s foolish distinction between justification and forgiveness. And we are aware of the recent synodical decision that made official the Protestant Reformed doctrine that good works assure man of his justification, which is about the rankest denial of justification by faith yet to come out of these churches." -Rev. Nathan J. Langerak

Introduction When Reformed Believers Publishing (RBP) was formed, it was deliberately and consciously formed to publish a fighting paper, Sword and Shield. At the time of the formation of RBP, the battle of Sword and Shield was with the Protestant Reformed Churches (PRC) while the members of RBP wer...

02/05/2026

MAY 3, 2026 Church Bulletin

25/04/2026

APRIL 26, 2026 CHURCH BULLETIN

18/04/2026

APRIL 19, 2026 CHURCH BULLETIN

13/04/2026

"The emphasis to be made in the covenant, for Heyns and Schilder as it was for Pieters and Kreulen, is upon the demands and warnings of God as conditions which man must fulfill according to the covenant of grace. This, and not sovereign grace, holds the key to Christian life; and the covenant is the objective statement of the promise of God as to what He will do for those by whom the conditions are met...All of this, when it was presented by Prof. Heyns to Herman Hoeksema in his school days, Hoeksema rejected as emphatically as had Bavinck in his day, which in turn did much to prepare him for the struggle with the Christian Reformed view of common grace, permeated as it was with this “Heynsian” scheme of thought." -Rev. Bernard J. Woudenberg, Standard Bearer: 74, no. 1, October 1, 1997, 22

11/04/2026

APRIL 12, 2026 CHURCH BULLETIN

04/04/2026

APRIL 5, 2026 CHURCH BULLETIN

28/03/2026

MARCH 29, 2026 CHURCH BULLETIN