Joyful Fruit

Joyful Fruit

By Yay Padua-Olmedo Senior folks’ daily lives may easily flat-line especially if all their kids have left home; worse, if they choose to live overseas. Empty-nesters. That’s what my husband and I have been these recent years. Jack’s extended employment...
Paul and Discipline

Paul and Discipline

Paul often drew analogies and illustrations from well-known events or individuals to present spiritual truths. When he wrote to the Corinthians, he used the athlete as an example. When he wrote to Timothy, he used two additional figures–that of a soldier and a...
The Ugly Side of Gambling

The Ugly Side of Gambling

By Dr. Harold Sala Do not be deceived: God cannot be mocked.  A man reaps what he sows.  Galatians 6:7 When David D’Alessandro bought his twenty-year-old son a car, the young man asked, “Dad, what kind of a car did your father buy you?”  D’Alessandro said he hadn’t...
Mother, A Well of a Heart

Mother, A Well of a Heart

by Yay Padua-Olmedo When God created man, He must have spent more time on the woman’s heart, stretching it, making it as deep as a well for the heart-arresting issues she would need to contend with later. The yawning gap between a man and a  woman becomes really...