REFINED BY GOD’S FIRE

ShareSuffering… this is the element in the lives of people that define them, change them, make some better, and corrupt others. It’s an amazing phenomenon to watch thriller and horror movies and find that the horrible monstrosity of a criminal grew into that from the beginnings of his own childhood rejection, neglect, and terror. [...]

HOW DO WE MOVE THE HAND OF GOD

ShareHave you experienced many disappointments in your life? If you’re human, you have. Through repeated disappointments, we can become conditioned to expect more disappointments and display a lack of faith.
You can tell when you display a lack of faith by the words you speak. When something that seems negative happens to you, do you [...]

GOD”S GLORY IS FOR YOU

Share“I am the LORD: that is my name; and my glory will I not give to another, neither my praise to graven images.”
Do you know that you are covered with the glory of God? Jesus said: “I am the way, the truth and the life; no man cometh unto the Father, but by me.” (John [...]

OUR SPIRITUAL FAITH

ShareWhat is faith? Faith is a strong commitment in believing in someone or something. Faith can be applied to almost anything. The type of faith I am referring to is the spiritual faith. Faith that there is something larger than us out there, faith that once we leave this physical plain we will not just [...]

CALVARY

ShareCalvary is very difficult to write about.  Not only because of its severe emotional content, but also simply because I cannot imagine God being tortured, carrying a cross uphill to Golgotha, and then, being nailed to bleed to death.
And so, as in my past writings, I will relate it you from the mind of a [...]

GREETINGS AND THEN SOME

ShareMy dearest everyone…
First, the greetings of Happy Birthday to Juanne Ongsiako, our little princess, “the chosen one” of Jiggers and the rest of the clan.
And then, to Mon….wow, let’s celebrate this, too!
And then, to Totty…also, another milestone we need to celebrate…in our prayers, in our thoughts, in our memories…especially during times like these when every [...]

THE HOLY WEEK

ShareWe all love to watch legal procedures and court cases on television, or read novels that deal with the suspense drama of court trials…
I went through one of the highlights of my legal career with Gerry Spence, America’s top criminal lawyer who has never lost a case in his 40 years of practice..with the Imelda [...]

THE LAST SUPPER AND THE BETRAYAL

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Every time, I read John’s account of the Last Supper, I am startled at its “modern” tone. Here, as nowhere else, a writer of the Gospels provides a realistic, slow motion portrayal.  John quotes long stretches of dialogue and notes the emotional interplay between Jesus and his disciples.  We have, in John 13-17, an intimate [...]

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