.

- About the Conference
- About Our Conference Speaker
- Schedule and Venue
- Registration
- Reminders to Participants
About the Conference
God calls believers to a life of holiness: “But as he who called you is holy, you also be holy in all your conduct, since it is written, ‘You shall be holy, for I am holy’” (1 Pet. 13:15-16). But living holy lives is a challenge for believers, especially when God’s command stands in contrast to the kind of self-choice and personal autonomy that the world promotes.
It is therefore incumbent upon pastors, preachers, and teachers to preach the pursuit of holiness. The believer is a new creature in Christ; he or she is now dead to sin and alive to God. Sin is no longer the master. On the other hand, being in Christ means we have the freedom to live just as God has intended. It is a new, abundant, triumphant, and permanent life. Dr. Steve Lawson said, “Jesus, by subjecting Himself to death, shattered the power of sin over our lives. Jesus broke the authority that sin once had over our lives. The mastery of sin and death has been ended once and for all. It was a fully accomplished and successful mission upon the cross. The benefits are now given without any cost to us.” This truth is worth proclaiming in our preaching and teaching.
Preaching the Pursuit of Holiness affirms the need for a Christ-exalting, biblical preaching in the local churches. It is also a call to proclaim solid truths from Scripture, the only definitive authority for holy living. Indeed, faithful preaching of the pursuit of holiness cultivates personal holiness among individual members of the body of Christ.
Who may attend?
- Men in ministry, including:
- Pastors and preachers
- Church elders
- Church teachers
- Cell group/small group/Bible study group leaders
- Seminary students
- Those planning to join any ministry that involves teaching
If you want to know more details about this conference, just download this brochure.
About Our Conference Speaker

“As believers, we are ‘alive to God in Christ Jesus’ (Rom. 6:11). Previous to our conversion, we were the very opposite. We were spiritually dead to God and alive to sin. That is the state in which we entered the world. But in the new birth, this was totally reversed. We now are dead to sin and alive to God. We are alive to love God and adore Him. We are made to be fully alive to desire to please God. Now we are alive to pursue holiness in a new life of practical righteousness. We are alive to the truth of God and to love others.”—Dr. Steve Lawson
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 21-22, 2019
Thursday to Friday
09:00 AM to 05:00 PM
Cine Adarna, UP Film Institute
(beside University Theater)
Magsaysay Ave.
University of the Philippines, Diliman
Quezon City
November 25-26, 2018
Monday to Tuesday
09:00 AM to 05:00 PM
Living Word Convention Center
Good Shepherd Road, Banawa
Cebu City
Registration
The registration fee is P1,000.00.
To register for this conference, or any other Higher Rock Conference, please go to this link:
And then follow the instructions on infographic posted below.
If you have any questions about registration, or if you want us to send more information about this or the other conferences to your church or Christian organization, please send the Conference Committee your queries and requests through any of these channels:
conference@higher-rock.org
0995-667-0983
Follow Us On
@higherrockconferences
@hrccconferences
@higherrockconferences
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
PREACHING THE PURSUIT OF HOLINESS
November 21-22, 2019
We are very thankful and excited about your attendance to the conference Preaching the Pursuit of Holiness. For your guidance and convenience, please carefully go through the following information. We pray that these will help in your preparations.
ARRIVING AT THE CONFERENCE VENUE
- The conference will be held at the Cine Adarna UP Film Institute along Magsaysay Avenue, University of the Philippines, Diliman, Quezon City. To access a map of the venue, click . For commuting instructions, please click
- On November 21, 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 planning your route to the venue will give ample allowance for possible heavy traffic.
- Parking is available at the venue premises on first come, first served basis.
WHAT TO BRING/PREPARE
To facilitate your conference check-in, please bring any of the following:
- Registration confirmation email (For samples click: Sample1), OR
- Tentative registration email – for those who have not received a registration confirmation email (For samples click: Sample2, Sample3)
- If you are registered but, for some reason, are unable to attend and wish to transfer your registration to another participant, here are the steps to take:
- Provide your replacement participant with a copy of the registration confirmation with your QR Code image, which we emailed to you.
- Advise your replacement participant to come early to the conference venue on November 21, with a copy of your QR Code or registration confirmation email. This will facilitate the transfer process and conference check-in.
- If you have registered online and paid through bank deposit, but did not receive a registration confirmation email, please bring a copy of the bank validated deposit slip. To facilitate verification of your payment and conference check-in, we encourage you to come early to the venue.
- If you have not paid but are keen to attend the conference, we encourage you to come early to the venue for payment of the registration fee.
OTHER THINGS TO BRING
- The venue is air-conditioned so we advise you to bring a jacket to keep you warm during sessions, if needed.
- Good Christian books will be sold at the conference. So if your budget allows, have some money in hand to buy materials for your personal or ministry use.
LUNCH AND SNACKS
- Packed lunches and snacks will be sold at the conference venue.
- If you prefer to eat elsewhere, this map shows the restaurants or cafeterias nearby for you to choose from.
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.
- Keep your belongings well attended at all times.
- Audio or video recording of any part of the conference proceedings is not allowed.