Have you ever had a nightmare that you died – and that’s not the scary part – and you woke up in hell? As I get older, I am coming to terms with my own frailty and mortality. I have accepted that I will die. So, it’s not death that I am afraid of. But I […]

 Jude 3–Beloved, although I was very eager to write to you about our common salvation, I found it necessary to write appealing to you to contend for the faith that was once for all delivered to the saints. I believe there is a healthy self-examination to know that the biggest “competition” you have in life […]

There are times when my phone pings me, I’m afraid to check the message. I’m afraid of a bad news. I have to muster up courage, take a deep breath, and then read the message. I do so because it is likely to put me in a mental turmoil for some period of time. It […]

Habakkuk 2:1–I will take my stand at my watchpost and station myself on the tower, and look out to see what he will say to me, and what I will answer concerning my complaint.  Think about the times where an overflow of emotions have led you to act or make decisions?  Now think about the […]

Do you like yourself better when you are in a certain mood than other? I, for example, like myself better when I feel compassionate toward my children than anger. When I do get angry with them, it’s usually not because they have harmed me in some way. But it’s usually when they act in such […]

I know I don’t seem like the type, but I have constant fights with one person. I fight with this person almost daily, sometimes several times a day, and I’ve been doing so ever since we met. Sometimes the fight becomes so fierce that I want to leave this person for good. And I must admit […]

Ecclesiastes 7:29–See, this alone I found, that God made man upright, but they have sought out many schemes.  I remember in college while studying psychology, the argument of “nature vs. nurture” was probably the biggest dilemma we had to debate.  Not being a Christian at the time, I just related to my experience growing up, […]

Have you thanked God for NOT giving you what you want? Getting what we want could actually be a curse from God. If we are bent on getting something, God may give it to us, but it will work to our disadvantage rather than advantage. “But they had a wanton craving in the wilderness, and […]

1 John 3:11-13–For this is the message that you have heard from the beginning, that we should love one another. 12 We should not be like Cain, who was of the evil one and murdered his brother. And why did he murder him? Because his own deeds were evil and his brother’s righteous. Because I […]

Do you have a mission bigger than yourself? That phrase, “A mission bigger than yourself’ has been dancing around in my head now for a few weeks. It is synonymous with “calling.” Do you know your calling? Do you live to accomplish a mission bigger than yourself? If you don’t, then you, like everyone else, […]