The New Year is always a great time to begin doing something purposeful, like starting a planner, a journal or a new devotional. This is probably due to the fact that these activities are time or date based and the fact that many planners, devotionals and journals...
My Utang-Free Diary is Chinkee Tan’s third installment in his Diary ng Pulubi series of books with a fourth and possibly final one to arrive later next year. Sir Chinkee is in his usual witty self in the book as he writes in the vernacular (Tagalog) and in an easy to...
Media personality, actress, entrepreneur, and single mom, Bettinna Carlos, officially presented to the media her first book under OMF Literature, Heartbreaks and Breakthroughs Making Sense of God’s Purpose for Pain. The book shares Bettinna’s journey from sickness to...
For a small book, Take Heart, Letters of Faith, Hope, and Love, has…heart. Written by 13 ladies and a gentleman, all millennials and, quite appropriately, for millennials. I initially read 4 chapters (don’t worry they’re short) and my gut reaction was: Why are they...
Filipinos have sooo many adjectives today for the traffic that millions are experiencing in Manila: epic, legendary, monstrous, horrendous, trafficmagedon, carmageddon, the biggest crawling parking lot, and the best, traffic is F-O-R-E-V-E-R. But with the right...
This is the question that many single people are asking today. And rightly so, because this is the most important question that one can ask next to “What will I eat today?” Kidding aside, this book review would be all too familiar with my regular readers. I only...
After going through four thick fictional novels straight, I decided that I needed to shift to reading inspirational Christian non-fiction. I started with The Other Cheek What It Takes to Forgive written by Ms. Grace D. Chong which is what this book review is all...
Book lovers (especially me) will be happy to know that Church Strengthening Ministry (CSM), one of the Philippines’ beloved Christian publishers, is celebrating its 30th anniversary this year. They are inviting everyone to celebrate with them at the 40th Manila...
As I write this, two prominent Christian personalities are at the top of the Christian media heap as they renounce or say that their faith is “on incredibly, shaky ground" with much fanfare. It has brought sadness and disappointment to many believers who looked up to...
Today I am starting a simple "A Day in the Life" series on getting to know the ministers that we hear and see most often. The goal of this series is to allow people a small glimpse into the life of a minister that they may have heard about from other believers or...