One aspect of my life that I will always remember was when my heart begun to palpitate when I got close to Carmelita (now my wife). We were college students then. Some people call this being in love. You know what it is like, right? It feels like your heart is dancing around your chest […]
Prayer: Not our Last Resort
Two years ago when my 88 year old mother, Verlantina, had a stroke, we called 911 for ambulance so that she can be taken immediately to the hospital for emergency. I began to call family members. Relatives came right away to be with my wife and I. We prayed as we waited for the medical […]
It’s Halloween. What do we do about it?
It’s Halloween season. There is plenty of reasonable disagreement among Christians regarding Halloween. It is a controversial subject and I know people who get into heated debates in discussing it. There are Christians who see it as a harmless bit of creative costume-wearing and sharing candy fun, while others take it seriously and condemn at […]
It Is Not The Healthy Who Needs a Doctor, But The Sick…
Several years ago, when my family and I lived in Davao City, in the island of Mindanao, Philippines, we started a small church in the town of Digos with a few members. At that time, we were renting a small room in an average-looking restaurant for our worship services. A number of the people who […]
United We Stand, Divided We Fall
> Satan hates God. Therefore he hates God’s creation – especially humanity. And the ones that Satan hates the most are God’s people, the church. His strategy has always been deception. The Bible tells us that his great plan for the church is to cause Christians—true believers who ought to be united in the gospel—to […]