Language Learning Blues

We have been staying in Thailand for over year. Every one in the family has their own reasons for liking it here. We love Thailand and we hope to stay longer and serve the Lord here. But we all agree that if we want to stay here longer we need to learn the languages. [...]

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The Heavenly Piano Show

My friend Jeseric Macaranas shares his gift in music through his Heavenly Piano Show. This You Tube Video is the Episode 7 of his series of shows. Jeseric attends my church in the Philippines whenever he is in town. If you love piano music you will surely enjoy this. You can watch the other episodes [...]

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Die with dignity

Every Monday evening my friend, our Pastor and I agreed to visit people in our area. The people we are paying a visit would be new believers, church goers or church members. We do our visits in early evening. I kinda enjoy the visits because it is the time when we talk with friends and [...]

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Homeless people and abandoned houses

Being from the Third World and working right now with migrant workers from impoverished neighboring countries, I could not resist posting this quote from Jurgen Moltmann. We are working everyday with poor migrant workers, homeless, exploited, and most of the times abused. Their plight is a result of many factors like political oppression, economic privation [...]

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Bible Quizzes

I took Bible quizzes one after the other. The first one was really easy. But the second was tough one, it made me think and scratch my head. I just couldn’t remember what characters are mentioned where. My only consolation is perhaps those names are never meant to be remembered. It’s fun. Take [...]

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Timi: new pet

We were sad when our pet dog Sam was killed in an accident. He was the object of affection for my children for several months and we still feel sad every time we remember him. Yesterday, somebody gave us another dog and we are very happy to have her. We named her Timi (from itim [...]

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The newest member of the family… Timi!

We were sad when our pet dog Sam was killed in an accident. He was the object of affection for my children for several months and we still feel sad every time we remember him. Yesterday, somebody gave us another dog and we are very happy to have her. We named her Timi (from itim [...]

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The Danger of Materialism

As career missionary, my wife and I made a commitment to our Lord Jesus to work in the field fulltime. It doesn’t mean sharing the gospel all the time to all people we meet. This kind of aggressiveness in witnessing though sounds great is actually counter productive, rather than attracting people, it actually turn off [...]

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