In a nutshell: I wax poetic on the events of the past year. 22 Because of the LORD’s great love we are not consumed, for his compassions never fail. 23 They are new every morning; great is your faithfulness. - Lamentations 3:22-23 (NIV) Today is December 6. In 25 days, we will be bidding 2009 goodbye. Quite frankly, for me, it’s good riddance. 2009 was a tough year, wasn’t it? The Ampatuan massacre, I think, takes the...

In a nutshell: To underscore how important it is to have open, honest relationships with God and your brothers and sisters in the faith, I discuss some benefits of confession and share four secrets with you that I’ve never told anyone. There is something about sharing a secret with someone. It’s the feeling of privilege that we are being let into a part of someone’s life to which other people don’t have access....

Masculinity is bestowed by masculinity. One learns how to be a man from another man. Author John Eldredge’s Wild At Heart, which I’ve recently finished, produced this gem of a statement. I have to admit Wild At Heart took me by surprise. The first time I’d read it, I was offended on a variety of levels; the second go-through, however, found me agreeing with some of the concepts. At some points, I was actually moved to...

One of the greatest untruths I’ve heard in all my years as a Christian is a person’s inability or unwillingness to “worship.” I’ve heard that so many times that it saddens me immensely, because that is an absolute lie. A person may have difficulty worshiping, but I will not accept that he is incapable of worship. As Chris Tomlin asserts, we were made to worship. Let me try to explain why I think this...

I am revisiting John Eldridge’s Wild At Heart: Discovering the Secret of a Man’s Soul, which came highly recommended by several men in the church in the Philippines for which I work. Author Eldredge makes a case for the universal need of every man to live a life of adventure and risk, claiming God designed man to be dangerous, and Christianity leads many men to abandon these dreams and desires to be a hero or warrior in favor of...

In no particular other, I would like to honor the following for their work since September 26, 2009, the day Typhoon Ondoy begun its destructive work in our nation: 1. Every person who laid down his or her life in the attempt to save lives. Some may have been fortunate to have their stories told in media; others have anonymously washed away to watery graves, but God knows who they are. (Greater love has no one than this, that he lay down...