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- About the Conference
- About Our Conference Speaker
- Schedule and Venue
- Registration
- Reminders to Participants
About the Conference
If you find it increasingly difficult to live as a Christian in these times, you are not alone. The fact is that the world is becoming more and more hostile to biblical Christianity. Sin is glorified, and depraved lifestyles are becoming more socially acceptable. The world tolerates all sorts of beliefs but is largely intolerant to the idea of an all-powerful God who hates sin and loves righteousness.
This difficulty trickles down to the private sphere. It has become harder to pursue personal holiness. The temptations—the lust of the eyes, the lust of the flesh, the boastful pride of life (1 John 2:16)—have taken on new forms. Never before has there been unparalleled access to pornography. The internet, although a source of resources for growth in our Christian life, has also become an effective avenue for self-promotion, materialism, and a host of other worldviews which can feed and cultivate the remaining sinful flesh in us. If we are not careful, we can gradually become numb to sin and drift away from what God has intended for us.
Set Apart: The Believer’s Call for Personal Holiness emphasizes God’s commandment to pursue personal holiness by rejecting and putting sin to death in our mortal bodies, and by living according to what God has called us to do. We can accomplish these only by the grace of God. It aims to equip believers from local churches with biblical principles and practical applications of how personal holiness can be pursued in daily living.
Who May Attend?
- Pastors
- Church elders, deacons, leaders and teachers
- Ministry leaders and workers
- Regular Churchgoer
About Our Conference Speaker

Dr. Lawson is the President and Founder of OnePassion Ministries, a ministry designed to equip biblical expositors to bring about a new reformation in the church.
He hosts The Institute for Expository Preaching in cities around the world. Dr. Lawson is also a Teaching Fellow for Ligonier Ministries, where he serves on its board. Moreover, he is Professor of Preaching and oversees the Doctor of Ministry program at The Master’s Seminary. He has served as a pastor for 34 years in Arkansas and Alabama. Most recently, he was senior pastor of Christ Fellowship Baptist Church in Mobile, Alabama. He is a graduate of Texas Tech University (B.B.A.), Dallas Theological Seminary (M.Th.), and Reformed Theological Seminary (D.Min.).
He is the author of several books, including his most recent, Philippians for You. His other books include The Daring Mission of William Tyndale, The Kind of Preaching God Blesses, The Heroic Boldness of Martin Luther, The Gospel Focus of Charles Spurgeon, Foundations of Grace, Pillars of Grace, Famine in the Land, Psalms volumes 1 and 2 and Job in the Holman Old Testament Commentary Series.
Dr. Lawson has been conference speaker for a number of events organized by Higher Rock Conferences. He spoke at Preaching with Precision and Power and Sufficiency of Scripture(June 2017) and, most recently, Preaching the Gospel (August 2018).
Schedule and Venue
November 23, 2019
Saturday
09:00 AM to 05:00 PM
Cine Adarna, UP Film Institute
(beside University Theater)
Magsaysay Ave.
University of the Philippines, Diliman
Quezon City
Registration
The registration fee is P750.00.
Online registration is now CLOSED for Set Apart: The Believer's Call for Personal Holiness on Nov 23.
We have prepared an overflow area with limited seats for those keen to attend but missed registering online for this conference. So, we shall accept walk-ins, subject to the availability of seats and on a first come, first served basis. Thank you.
We aim to edify and equip churches and believers by organizing Christian conferences that are biblically-grounded, Gospel-saturated, and with well-credentialed godly speakers from all over the world.
A Ministry of HIGHER ROCK CHRISTIAN CHURCH
Solid Lives Built on Solid Truth
Higher Rock Christian Church is a 23-year old independent evangelical church. It exists to glorify God by building lives of enduring commitment to Christ, proclaiming the truth of God’s Word, emphasizing the unreserved worship of God, teaching a life of personal holiness and complete submission to the authority of Scripture, focusing on the priority of the local church, penetrating the world with the Gospel, contending for the faith, and by contributing to the advancement of the kingdom of our Lord Jesus Christ by the grace of God in the power of the Holy Spirit.
3/F ESNA Bldg., #30 Timog Ave., Laging Handa, Quezon City,
www.higherrockchurch.org
Recent Higher Rock Conferences
June 2019
To Have and To Hold: Marriage by God’s Design
DR. STUART SCOTT and MARTHA PEACE
November 2018
Live It Well: The Ordinary Christian in Extraordinary Times
TIM CHALLIES
August 2018
Preaching the Gospel
DR. STEVE LAWSON
May 2018
Staying the Course
DR. JERRY WRAGG
Reminders to Participants
PREPARING TO ATTEND
SET APART: THE BELIEVER'S CALL TO PERSONAL HOLINESS
November 23, 2019
(For registrants only)
We are very thankful and excited about your attendance to the conference Set Apart: The Believer’s Call to Personal Holiness. If you have successfully registered or received a tentative registration notice from our team, then you should have received these information through your email as well.
For your guidance and convenience, we request and encourage you to carefully go through the following information. We pray that these will help in your preparations
ARRIVING AT THE CONFERENCE VENUE
- The Conference Venue is the Cine Adarna UP Film Institute, Magsaysay Avenue, University of the Philippines, Diliman Quezon City.
- To access an online Venue map, click here
- To download a printable Venue map, click here
- For commuting instructions, click here
- On November 23, Conference check-in starts at 8AM and session starts at 9AM. However, some registration counters will be open by 7AM for early-comers. The venue is within the vicinity of several schools, colleges and universities so plan your route to the Venue and give ample allowance for possible traffic.
- Parking is available at the venue premises on first-come-first-serve basis.
WHAT TO BRING/PREPARE
- To facilitate your Conference check-in, prepare to bring the following:
- Print out of the
- Registration confirmation email (For sample, click: Confirm)
- Tentative registration email – for those who have not received a Registration confirmation email (For samples, click: Tentative1, Tentative2)
- QR Code:If you have a smartphone, save your QR code in your phone’s file folder.
- Valid ID: You may also present any valid ID.
- Other reminders about what to bring are:
- The Auditorium is air-conditioned so we advise to bring a jacket or a shawl to keep you warm during sessions, if needed.
- Good Christian books will be sold so if your budget allows, have some money handy to buy materials for your personal or ministry use.
PACKED LUNCH AND SNACKS
- Packed lunches and snacks will be sold at the conference venue.
- Aside from these, there is a wide variety of affordable eating establishments nearby.
VENUE RULES
- Wear your ID at all times to access the cinema auditorium.
- Eating, drinking, chewing of gum and betel nut are prohibited inside the cinema auditorium.
- Smoking is not permitted anywhere within the premises of the University.
- Keep your belongings well attended at all times.
- Audio or video recording of any part of the conference proceedings is not allowed.