Last night, I checked into Saint Luke’s Medical Center for a midnight operation that no one knew about except Cathy. I had gastric bypass surgery. Inspired by the success of many celebrities who’ve had gastric bypass surgery, including Carnie Wilson and Randy Jackson, I decided to give up on the natural way of losing weight – exercise and diet? Bah! – and get thin the quick, albeit expensive way. So after hours of...

I was conducting a search on YouTube.com for Leona Lewis, because I was interested in watching the video of her recent Billboard Hot 100 #1 song, Bleeding Love. On top of the search results was an acoustic version of the song by a musical act called Boyce Avenue. Curious, I clicked on the video and discovered the refreshing acoustic sound of an indie band from Florida. Don’t know if they’re Christian – they did cover Carrie...

Love Letter, Kitchie Nadal’s sophomore album, is now available at selected Caltex Star Marts throughout Metro Manila. Love Letter features Highway, a mid-tempo love song to God, as well as 16 other songs, including Armour Bearer, Iniibig Kita, Beautiful Jesus, Grace, Walk on Water, and Lalaland. I picked up my copy of Kitchie Nadal’s Love Letter (Starmart on Julia Vargas corner Meralco Avenue, for PHP280), and I am blown away by...

The Philippine blogosphere has long ignored a focal niche market: the Filipino-Christian blog. I estimate around 5% of Philippine blogs are overtly Christian in nature, and this number is growing. Even as more Filipino-Christians make the foray into social media marketing – fancy talk for blogs, podcasts, and the like – without any real idea of the implications of being an online ambassador for Christ and the Philippines, Christian...

It’s been months, and I still can’t get enough of You Are Everything by Matthew West. The carrier single of his third studio album, Something to Say, is a solid song of worship to God, and you would do well to give it a listen. It was my #2 song of 2007 – after Mandisa’s Unrestrained, a new version by Myron Butler and Levi of which is now in my top 5 of the week – and is still going strong. Great, great song, You...