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  May kwento tungkol sa lalaking may dalang isang baso ng kape. Nang siya ay mabangga, natapon ang kape. Ang tanong, bakit natapon ang kape?  Marami ang magsasabing kasalanan kasi ng nakabangga. Kung hindi siya nabangga, hindi sana matatapon ang kape. Tama naman. Pero ayon sa isang marunong, ang dahilan kung bakit natapon ang kape ay dahil kape ang laman. Kung toyo ang laman, toyo ang matatapon.  Ang simpleng kwentong ito ay nagtuturo ng katotohanang kung ano ang laman ng ating puso, iyan ang lalabas sa ating buhay.  Every day we are faced with a choice - shall we fill our hearts with God's Word or will we let the world fill it with fear, worry and anxiety?  Kung ano ang pinasok mo sa baso ng iyong buhay ay siyang tatapon kapag nabangga ka ng problema ng buhay.  Maraming Cristianong laging balisa dahil hinayaan nilang punuin ng sanlibutan ang kanilang puso ng kabalisahan. Hindi nila natutunan ang Salita ng Diyos na nagsasabing ibigay ang mga kabalisahan kay...

  This Holy Week, the world is remembering Christ's substitutionary death, burial and resurrection. The world may not understand its significance, but they understand that love is the reason. It is the Church's opportunity to explain to the world that this death solves the problem of sin. No one will go to hell because of sin. A person goes to hell if he rejects Christ as Savior.  One of the misunderstanding regarding salvation is our role in receiving it. Many people believe that salvation is something that is earned by merit- avoid sins, live righteously and be faithful until death. Others think salvation is by joining their religions, undergoing their rituals and faithfulness to the Church. Others add works to faith in Christ. You need to believe and work. Salvation is 50% your work and 50% Christ's.  None of these save a man. Jesus is the exclusive Way to God. He is not one of many ways. He is the ONLY way.  The only condition to have eternal life is faith alone ...

  Two days after magtapos ng senior high, binuo ng aking anak ang apat na laruan. Napabilib ako dahil mabusisi at maliliit ang mga piyesa ng laruan. Flex ko lang ang gawa niya rito: ( https://www.facebook.com/share/p/19sMy4FA9F/ ). Paano niya ito nabuo? Maingat niyang binasa at sinunod ang instructions na kasama sa kahon. Without that instructional manual, malabong mabuo ang mga laruan.  Sinumang nag-attempt na buuin ang laruan nang hindi kinokunsulta ang instructional manual ay siguradong mabibigo. Marahil pagtatawanan siya sa putilidad ng kaniyang ginagawa.  Instinctively binabasa natin ang manual kapag may bago tayong biling gamit. Sayang kung hindi ito mapakinabangan dahil sa maling assembly o maling gamit.  Yet, millions, and probably billions, are engaged in the futile exercise of building marriage and family without consulting the Author of the institution. God is the Author of the institution. He has the final say on how marriage and family work.  As Chr...

  Kung regular kang nagbabasa ng blog na ito (I don't presume you do), alam ninyong I am a fornicator. I didn't start my marriage life well. As a result, naghirap kami sa panimula ng aming buhay mag-asawa. Ang isang talong ay ulam namin sa tanghalian at sa hapunan. Sa pananghalian, ang kalahating talong ay hombura ; sa hapunan ay ensalada .  But God is faithful. I am a sinner and He is gracious. When I confessed my sins to him (not to a human priest), He forgave and cleansed me. By studying His Word, I started to make right decisions. Life is still difficult today but I am confident that God will walk with me now that I am back in fellowship with Him.  May mga panahong akala namin ay hindi kami aabutin ng umaga. Maraming bilihin, maraming bayarin, hindi namin alam kung saan kami lalapit. Yet 19 years later, here we are. Nasa kolehiyo na ang aming panganay at ang bunso ay katatapos pa lang ng senior highschool (March 30, 2026). God has been faithful these 19 years.  1...

  In Daniel 5 , we have a very foolish king, Belshassar . He's surrounded by the Medeans and Caldeans. Instead of preparing for the siege, he chose to party. In addition, he chose to blaspheme the living God. That same night, as interpreted by Daniel, the city was taken and he was killed.  Madali sa ating hatulan si Belshassar. What was he thinking? Didn't he know the importance of planning ahead?  Yet millions and even billions of people are on the way to a far terrible future and most are not preparing. Like Belshassar, they chose to party, to eat, drink and be merry. They marry and they are given in marriage. The world is oblivious to the danger ahead.  There is a lake of fire waiting for anyone who died without Christ .  Instead of preparing for that disaster, the majority are living a life that has no God in it. Even those who claimed to believe in God live as if He didn't exist. Lasciviousness and licentiousness are the order of the day.  Many of tho...

  John 16:33 [33]These things I have spoken to you, so that in Me you may have peace. In the world you have tribulation, but take courage; I have overcome the world. Ang mundo ay nababalot ng pag-aalala. Ang digmaan sa Iran ay nagresulta sa pagtaas ng presyo ng langit at kaakibat nito ang pagtaas ng pamasahe at mga bilihin. Hindi nalalayong magmahal ang kuryente (o baka magkaroon pa ng malawakang power outage) at ang lalong pagbaba ng kakayahan ng pisong bumili.  Ngunit ang Cristiano ay hindi kailangang magpanik. Taglay natin ang kapayapaan ni Cristo. Ito ang mag-iingat sa ating isipan at saloobin. Iyon ay kung handa tayong panghawakan ito sa pananampalataya. Ang Cristianong lumalago sa pananampalataya ay may balong paghuhugutan ng kapayapaan. Habang natataranta ang sanlibutan, ang Cristiano ay may panloob na kapayapaang mababakas sa kaniyang pang-araw-araw na gawi.  Hindi siya nagpadadala sa takot. Hindi siya nadadala ng discouragement. Handa siyang humarao sa mga pa...

  This week the world will commemorate the suffering, death, burial and resurrection of Christ. I am not really a fan of rituals but the Holy Week is one of the few that I think should be adopted by Christians.  Sure there are many unbiblical practices that surrounded the week. Redeeming the culture means adopting what can be reconciled with our Christian convictions and rejecting those that contradict it.  Jesus suffered and died at the Cross not for His own sins. He is sinless and impeccable. He died because He became the world's substitute. Let's make it personal. He died for me. If I am the only person in the world or if I am the only sinner in the world, He'll still die for me! How could I not value Him who died for me?  He died to remove the barrier of sin. No one will go to hell because of sins. He'll go to hell for rejecting Jesus Christ.  Anyone who depends on his own merit, on his own righteousness, on his own religion, on his own works to earn eterna...

  James 5:19-20 [19]My brethren, if any among you strays from the truth and one turns him back, [20]let him know that he who turns a sinner from the error of his way will save his soul from death and will cover a multitude of sins. Malinaw ang Kasulatan: may kasalanang nagreresulta sa kamatayan. In fact ayon sa James 1:15 , ang bunga ng kasalanan ay kamatayan.  Yes, this can include physical death. This is not just a metaphorical death-like existence. This is dead, as in dead dead.  And if you love your straying brother, you'll talk to him and turn him away from the error of his way. James said that this will save his soulife from death.  So this summer vacation, use the time to visit brothers and sisters who have been away from the church. Who knows if an encouragement is what they need to be back on track.  Kakaunti lamang tayong mga Cristiano . If we're not our brothers' keepers , lalo tayong uunti. Tayo ang dapat magmalasakitan sa bawat isa.  Chat them...

  John 14:6 [6]Jesus said to him, "I am the way, and the truth, and the life; no one comes to the Father but through Me. All the founders of the religions of this world are dead. They stay dead. Only Jesus rose again.  These teachers point to someone or something as the way. They are not the way. They cannot claim to be the way. In fact they don't know if they made it. All they can hope for is their good outweigh their bad and maybe it is sufficient to bring them eternal life.  Unlike them, Jesus point to Himself as the Way. Only He can claim to be the Way. Apart from Him no one can come to the Father.  He did the work of salvation. He gave His life at the Cross as propitiation for our sins . He was buried and then rose again. In so doing, He removed sin as a barrier between God and man. No man will go to the Lake of Fire because of sin. The only reason a person will go to the Lake of Fire is if he rejected Christ as Savior .  The only condition to have etern...