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Life Journey: The One-Way Ticket to the Unknown World

Jun P. Espina June 1, 2017February 11, 2020

Man’s life in this world is like a journey. His first step thus is as important as his destination. The problem is that he doesn’t know if he ever has a starting point at all other than his birth. Hence, he is but a pure stranger in this domain, for both his birth and death, are beyond his control! But he must move on nevertheless, for as long as he’s alive. There’s no turning back---there's no hitting ball back at square one. Life journey is just a one-way ticket to the unknown. We may keep it glowing or waste it...

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Paradoxical Christian Teaching: Comfort in Affliction

Jun P. Espina June 1, 2017February 14, 2020

The Bible teaches that there is peace for Christ’s followers amidst the storms of life. It is a paradoxical Christian teaching at the surface. The wisdom of this world suggests the idea of a predictable peace right after the tempest. Hence, the cliche: “peace after the storm” or “darkest hour before the dawn.” But what divine teaching is it that there is peace and comfort while one is in the limbo of trials and sufferings?

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God’s Promised Holy Spirit Unclaimed: Powerless Witnesses of Christ

Jun P. Espina April 10, 2017February 14, 2020

God’s Promised Holy Spirit What is the primary cause of our powerlessness in the pulpit? Most preachers and church workers are so powerless that it is difficult to fill the church auditorium with people without using extra-biblical teachings and strategies. It is one of the subjects discussed thoroughly in my eBook, PENTECOSTALISM, ITS THEOLOGY & […]

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Extreme Pentecostalism Analyzed from the Biblical Standpoint

Jun P. Espina April 8, 2017February 15, 2020

The core doctrine of extreme Pentecostalism is that we can experience God directly (and physically!) during a worship service. The question that is worthy of biblically answering is: Does God answer to people’s emotions in a worship service? This experience is dictated by feelings and the belief of God’s presence “in our midst” as experienced by Christ’s disciples in Acts, Chapter Two.

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God’s Word Proves Faith in Christ Versus Bible Ignorance

Jun P. Espina April 1, 2017February 15, 2020

Liberal theologians are now advancing the false teaching of believing in Christ without necessarily taking the entire Holy Scriptures as God’s Word. You may have heard someone saying "I do believe in your Christ, but I don’t believe in your Bible.” Without a shadow of a doubt, if examined through the revelations of the Scriptures, such a doctrine is misleading and distorted. God's Word proves that real faith in Christ only happens after a hugging conviction of the Bible's truthfulness and dependability. Wrote the apostle Paul that "faith comes from hearing, and hearing by the word of Christ." (Rom....

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Broken Spirit Leads to God and Faith in Jesus Christ

Jun P. Espina March 17, 2017February 15, 2020

We are closer to God only when we seem broken inwardly --- in the spirit. It is the meaning of Psalm 51:17: "The sacrifices of God are a broken spirit; A broken and a contrite heart, O God, You will not despise." Hence, trials are necessary for a balanced life! They are God's will for us to believe and humble ourselves before Him. They are divine mechanisms to remind us of our dust origin. God is near to those experiencing a broken spirit and having a contrite or repentant heart.

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