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  • How the Consequences of our Sin shows God’s Mercy

    I have personally experienced consequences to my sin. I made dumb decisions that lead to consequences. Whether it was a wrong financial decision, we had to live through what I decided. For some it might be a sexual sin that destroyed their marriage. And when we realized how we have wronged God and sinned against…

  • The Pain of Life

    What do we do when we experience suffering and pain in life? Our natural tendency to ask God to remove the pain we are experiencing. I am not talking about sickness and disease. I am talking about deep pain that no doctors can heal. Reading through the book of Job, we would see a man…

  • On the worship experience and the gospel

    Skye Jethani in his book “The Divine Commodity” writes, Ministries that focus on manufacturing spiritual experiences, despite their laudable intentions, may actually be retarding spiritual growth by making people experience dependent. And that is why it is so important to focus our teaching, our worship, our service and the rest of our lives on the…

  • Dangerous Christians: Spiritual Aggression

    Dangerous Christians: Spiritual Aggression

    The only adequate answer to an aggressively pagan world is for Christians to recover the New Testament power of spiritual aggression – Karl Barth So what kind of spiritual aggression was that? Let me give you a sneak peek of how aggressive New Testament Christians were: Matthew 11:12 English Standard Version (ESV) 12  From the days of…

  • Lady Gaga and what the Church Should be doing

    Lady Gaga and what the Church Should be doing

    My good friend and pastor Joseph Bonifacio wrote a very interesting piece regarding the call of Christians to cancel Lady Gaga’s concert here in Manila since Lady Gaga is bringing forth a different kind of spirit and is known as a devil worshiper. I received a text before leaving for Indonesia calling churches to come…