Of the thirteen letters that came from the pen of the theologian of the New Testament, Paul, formerly known as Saul of Tarsus, none is more personal and intimate than the letter in our Bibles known as 2 Corinthians. In this letter, Paul opens his heart with a...
At one time, Bulstrode Whitelocke was England's ambassador to Sweden, back then, as now, life was chaotic and uncertain. The night before he was to leave for Sweden, Whitelocke spent the night in a country inn near the ship that would take him on his journey when...
William Shakespeare had a tremendous grasp of life and human nature. “When sorrows come,” he wrote, “they come not single file but in battalions.” My mother used to say, “When it rains, it pours!” meaning essentially the same thing. Nobody apart from a sadistic...
Hindsight vision is always 20-20, but seeing what lies in the future is totally something else. The future is unknown, risky, and indefinite. It's no wonder we hesitate to take the bold step whether it is launching a business or moving away from the security of the...
It’s good to consider how we can persevere in faithfully serving the Lord. God tells us in Jeremiah 17:7-8: “Blessed is the man who trusts in the Lord, and whose hope is the Lord. For he shall be like a tree planted by the waters, which spreads out its roots by the...
Some of you are aware that I recently came through a bout with throat cancer beneath my tongue and underwent chemo and radiation treatment. This was not my first bout with cancer. A number of years ago I was diagnosed with Melanoma cancer. Melanoma is the least common...
The entire family seemed to be sick all of the time. They coughed, felt something in their chests, were lethargic, and losing strength week by week. Fearing that something was terribly wrong, the family, then living in the Philippines where doctors are very much on...
For almost three weeks now, I have had a fairly regular time of Bible reading. Aside from reading the Bible, I was also reading Reuben A. Torrey's "How to Pray". It's in Adobe Acrobat format that you can download free from here. As I read the book, which is...
"Bote!" "Garapa!" "Dyaryo!" Shouted by a cart-pushing Chinaman going around our Manila neighborhood, these words woke me up most mornings when I was a kid—bagong-saltang probinsyana (fresh from the province, Sampaloc, Quezon) getting used to life in Manila. This was...
The scripture mentioned above is part of a prophecy made by Jeremiah and is used and claimed by many people just for that specific part. Now, I will not venture into any discussion about claiming verses out of the blue just because it is their memory or life verse....