We are hitting the road again

I thank the Lord for giving me the opportunity to preach at church today. I felt God’s anointing in this particular sermon. Maybe because this time the sermon was not translated into Burmese. Preaching with interpreter is difficult. It hinders the continuity of the sermon’s delivery and in some sense lost its power. Translation is [...]

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Terrifying Quick Rainstorm

We went to Chiang Mai yesterday with a family friend to avail of the services that the Philippine Embassy were extending to the Filipinos living in Northern Thailand. We drove from five hours to be there. Because we arrived early we decided to check the hotel were the event will be held so that we [...]

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Unity and humility

Have you ever bought something that was an imitation—it looked like the real thing but lacked the quality of the original? Chances are the imitations wore out or broke before too long. There is nothing like the real thing, whether it be a cherished painting, a treasured piece of jewelry, or a precious relationship. Nothing [...]

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More on graduation

After six months of intensive training our eight students finally graduate. Eight students, four males and four females, were able to complete the six-month discipleship-training course. The students believed that the training had fully prepared them for the ministry that God called them to do in their own respective villages and other unevangelized places in [...]

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I am missing the van so bad

For the first time in almost four months, I missed my 25-year-old-hands-down Nissan Urvan. The van broke down last year in October and is still in the shop. Holding on for its dear life. The mechanic advised us to change it with a new second-hand engine but Narlin and I are having second thought. We [...]

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I miss the van so bad

For the first time in almost four months, I missed my 25-year-old-hands-down Nissan Urvan. The van broke down last year in October and is still in the shop. Holding on for its dear life. The mechanic advised us to change it with a new second-hand engine but Narlin and I are having second thought. We [...]

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They finished the course

After six months of intensive training, we had our graduation last Thursday. Eight students were able to finish the course. Within the time that we were together, we come to know them better, their strengths and weaknesses, their great potentials. We do pray for them all the time that after the course their knowledge [...]

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Far behind

I didn’t realize how far behind I am in posting in this blog. I had never actually see my own blog for a while. I have been using a software that can post when I am offline. I’d written a few entries there but didn’t really have the time to check here. Apparently, those entries [...]

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