Have HOPE.

There is a different kind of fasting a Christian can do this lent:   Restraint from expressing anything negative on the internet, on fb, on twitter, anywhere on the net. No matter how honest it may be. Just restrain. Fast. Expressing negative feelings, specially frustrations, can always provide venue for arguments, misunderstanding from people you know, from people you don't know. You may be able to vent out but there will always be someone to talk back and you'll never hear the end of it. This lent, lets fast for peace. For netizens. For those who bully. For those who steal identities. For those who see the internet as venue for scams and deception. For those who are so lured and willfully ignore their family or work responsibilities in exchange for the entertainment they get from the internet. For those who are so close-minded that each time they see something that opposes their belief, they would scream their minds out with all the curses and exclamatio...

Who was the first person who taught you about the Bible? For me, it was my mother.  We started with Bible for Kids, you know, biblical stories with pictures on glossy pages. I think it was David and Goliath. But reading the actual Bible?  I first learned to open the Bible when I was in elementary.  I think I was in grade four then.  We had the religion subject and each day, there was an hour allocated for that. ( Learning first time how to pray was a different story because that started from home through my grandmother way way back before I started going to school.) I remember my teacher reading us stories from the Bible.  She would open up her little book and read it out loud. Not very long like that in the churches though.  It was enough to put to our heads that there is such a Bible where God speaks to us and where we can learn the things about Him. It was on the sixth grade where we were taught how to read the Bible in terms of chapte...

Non-believers of extreme Islamic faith are targets of ISIS. They kill like those you see in movies of old settings:  burning people alive, crucifying, enslaving children, treating women like cattles. The big issue is, THEY ARE ON THE RISE.  Their recruitment worldwide probably employs convincing strategies that even those young people from non suspecting countries have had reports of joining. Children as young as seven year old are being taught to kill. Can you imagine if they become everywhere in the world and do these things?  You'll say THE TIME HAS COME.  You'll remember what REVELATION in the Bible has said. If you are a Christian, you should know about ISIS so you can do your part.  ISIS is non like the other terrorists in our history.  Google it.  Look at the news.   Prayers and fasting should take part in this battle.  No time for petty quarrels among different sects of Christian faith.   Pope John Paul II has tau...