Ilagan Christian Church

Ptr. Jess Erasquin

  • The Parable of Growth and Maturity

    The growth parables point to a life that must mature. God gives new birth and every resource for godliness, and calls believers to grow into the image of Christ.

  • The Parable of the Kingdom of God

    The kingdom of God grows like a seed, a mustard plant and leaven: quietly, little by little, until the rule of Christ fills the earth.

  • The Parable of the New Wineskins

    New wine cannot be poured into old wineskins. Christ does not patch up the old religion; He brings a new creation.

  • Far as the Curse Is Found

    Genesis 3’s curse – on the serpent, on the woman, on marriage itself – and the Christmas hope that Christ came to make his blessings flow ‘far as the curse is found.’

  • The Parable of the Rich Fool

    A man builds bigger barns and tells his soul to take its ease, but God calls him a fool. Life does not consist in the abundance of possessions.

  • The Parable of the Sower

    A sower scatters seed on four kinds of soil, and only the good soil bears fruit. The lesson shows that a heart able to receive the Word is God’s gift.

  • The Parable of the Dishonest Manager

    A dishonest manager acts shrewdly before he is dismissed. Everything belongs to God, a day of reckoning is coming, and no one can serve both God and money.

  • The Parable of the Talents

    A master entrusts his servants with talents and returns to settle accounts. The lesson teaches faithful stewardship of all God has given, empowered by His Spirit.

  • Wrestling with God

    Jacob’s night wrestling with God at the Jabbok becomes a picture of how God transforms His people through struggle.

  • Jacob’s Prosperity

    Laban changed Jacob’s wages again and again – yet it was God’s providence, not human scheming, that made him prosper.

  • The Parable of the Rich Man and Lazarus

    A rich man and a beggar trade places at death, and a great chasm is fixed between them. There are no second chances after death, and God’s word is enough.

  • Jacob in Haran

    Jacob is deceived on his own wedding night just as he once deceived his father — yet God’s faithfulness to His covenant promise presses on through the tangled, unfair family life of Jacob, Leah, and Rachel.