Frequently asked questions on tithing and rarely given answers:  Q: Do you tithe? A: Yes. Q: Where does it say in the New Testament th...

What are you doing this afternoon? Here's an invitation for all kids to come and listen to the story of a great flood in Mateo's t...

It must have been something I ate which rendered my total being totally useless in the last two days. I was a Person With Disability (PWD). ...

I just had a junior moment. Huh? How can that be possible when you're a senior, Mom! My sons are most likely saying in their minds. ...

Does waiting still infuriate and frustrate you? Try crossword puzzles. You are probably saying, "Not again?!" I have rhapso...

" Lola , I need a new book!" were the first words that Trista, a grandniece, said when I hugged her, not having seen her for over ...

One of the greatest pleasures of walking at dawn is watching the birds wake up with the  morning light and make their first flight for the d...

Here's what I do when something honorable becomes so popular and people start trivializing it: I stop listening. This was what happene...

Everyday you meet one or two (the number is not very big) people who can make you laugh with the way they say a word or a phrase.  There is ...

In Bible times, execution on the cross was the cruelest, most unforgettable way to punish the worst criminals — totally humiliating and dehu...

Writing is not a duty for me. It has always been a privilege, a time of great feelings, a mountain-top joy, and . . . an undeserved grace of...

Every Tom, Dick, and Harry has commented on the current hot issues involving Sultan Kiram of Sulu, Kristel, and Kris Aquino. Some blame the ...

Do you enjoy surprising others?   Well, I have a surprise for you. You might end up being surprised yourself. My brother Dave loves to s...

On TV last week, I watched a show that featured same-sex pairs who looked very much alike but who, in reality, are not twins. Unbelievable...

“Ides,” as we learned in school, comes from the Latin word "idus," used widely in the old Roman calendar to indicate the middle ...

I discovered this book in faraway Cagayan de Oro (CDO) OMFLit bookstore. In between sporadic book signing, I sat down beside a shelf and to...

Mention Cagayan de Oro (CDO) City to anyone who has been there and he'll say, white water rafting and river trekking! Well, I've j...

For twenty long minutes we had been driving round and round the parking lot. It was unusually full. Suddenly, a car whizzed past us and park...

Each author regards the first draft differently. Ernest Hemingway said that “The first draft of anything is s—t.”  Nicholas Sparks has ano...

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The nation was on tenterhooks 27 years ago when then President Ferdinand Marcos refused to leave his seat despite millions of people gathe...

One of life's most difficult endeavors is crossing a street in Metro Manila. Vehicles don't stop for hapless pedestrians. Traffic s...

Dread is the perfect word to describe what I felt about renewing my passport.  In past years, it took a minimum of two hours to wait in lin...

A big, deep, pure love came to Jesus. And it came from the lowest of the low—a despised prostitute.  Today, Valentine's Day, I will at...

“Are you Chinese?” People sometimes ask me. “No, but my children and husband are,” I reply. “And I celebrate Chinese New Year.” Chinese...

If you are a Christian and feeling guilty (as I am) about not being able to do something about the Great Commission, don't. There is som...

(This is the third and last part of the excerpted chapter, My friends Sonia and Brenda , from “Gifts of Grace” Book 3. )   My Friends Sonia...

(Continued from yesterday's post . To those who have just chanced upon this blog, this is an excerpt from my Book, “Gifts of Grace” Book...

(Another loved one just lost her battle against cancer. Every so often, I would read posts of friends grieving over someone suffering from t...

Cockroaches. That's the only image I can summon to describe the motorcycles on the road.   The above photo is kinda gross I know, but ...

Among all the punctuation marks in English, the most unused, misused and abused is the period. In this confused era of text messaging, Twi...

A car cut right in front of ours and my driver slammed on the brakes. He muttered, “Women drivers!” I looked at the other car's driver...

Must do: change my header now, just 21 days after I had it up: It's because my heart is all lined up with thanksgiving: The worst is ove...

My quiet time today centered on the life of Jacob, the man from whom the 12 tribes of Israel came. He certainly had a dramatic, tele-novela ...

One can't have too many Bibles—not if they come in different translations.  The reported numbers vary, but it is safe to say that ther...

This extraordinary woman of faith breastfed me when I was a baby.   And from now I will talk about her in the past tense with both sadness...

Everything on earth will end when the Lord comes again. This is what the Scriptures tell us, but some cousins and I discussed a different ...

2012 was another year of the Lord. Reviewing my past 100 posts, I see all the hills and valleys that gripped our lives in this country. I...

Am I dreaming? The Eddie Garcia, best actor of the 55th Asia Pacific Festival and the only hall-of-fame Famas awardee for three categorie...

Innocent children slaughtered.  This gruesome news shook the world in recent days. A lone gunman massacred 20 schoolchildren in the afflue...

The first Christmas was the beginning of a world saved from sin. Hope was born, and every man—no matter how deeply mired in sin—can now rece...

The rumor had been rife; it persisted for days. Many people believed it—to their peril and embarrassment. It occupied huge spaces and freq...

The greatest Gift—and the only one that should matter on Christmas—is the birth of Grace. God made Himself poor so that we may be rich and h...

The phrase “four-letter word” refers to words with four letters that are considered profane or vulgar. It is a euphemism for the many Englis...

Unlike my friend Malou who can echo, word for word, other people's speeches just by listening to them, and knows all her friends' ce...

To escape the horrifying headline news on the deadliest calamity that ever hit Mindanao wrought by Typhoon Pablo (over 500 deaths to date), ...

A blogger's all-time natural high is caused by her number of hits, even if the hitters miss reading a word of her blog. I've been ...

Not too many people know this fact: AIDS has reached epidemic proportions in this country. I was shocked when my physician friend, Luis, who...

To someone whose blood sugar is always precariously at high-normal levels, ice-cream is taboo. There are sugar-free flavors, but they're...

The blank line in a document stares at me. I stare back and wonder how to fill it up properly.  Religion:_______________ In a world that...