Divorce Answers Bad Marriage

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Divorce is needed when the marital union only brings harm to the life of the spouses and the children as well. Otherwise, divorce should not be taken as an option for mere incompatibility or misunderstanding.

Life’s Cruelty is Seen Based on Human Wisdom, Not God’s

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Jun P. Espina&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp9 min read Updated on January 18th, 2020Life’s Cruelty is Not God’s Asked a certain man one day after learning that his loved one died in an accident: “Why is life so cruel sometimes?” I’ve been reflecting on this thought—the negative surprises of life. Is life’s cruelty a part of God’s plan? “Life … Read more

Merciful God Versus Human Arrogance and Fearlessness

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Jun P. Espina         1 min read

Updated on February 18th, 2020


Merciful God But Terrifying

Our sense of self-confidence, superiority and pride do not please God. Although He is a merciful God, He also wills that we humble ourselves before Him. Said the atheists that religion is intellectual infancy. If religion is relationship with God, then Christ had a religion, since during His earthly ministry, He wouldn’t do anything without first saying a prayer to His Father God. Yes, Christ had a religion, but no one would dare say that our Lord had intellectual infancy in His Person. The atheists don’t include faith in their intellectual and emotional menu, for the beauty of reason and science are the ones governing and adorning their mindset. I had a casual acquaintance with atheists, and I know that even cancer or heart attack or any form of death-threat cannot change their anti-God views. But it “is a terrifying thing to fall into the hands of the living God.” (Heb. 10:31) For us on the opposite side, we need to be fearful to our merciful God, and here are our reasons:

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New Year’s Resolution Tips

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Jun P. Espina         1 min read

Updated on February 18th, 2020


A new year’s resolution is like a firm decision to do something better for the whole year but only to be given up after a month or so. One common resolution every first day of the year is to stop a vice such as smoking, drinking alcohol; or to end a wild nightlife; to lose weight and educate the appetite or to attend church regularly. It’s always a welcome thing to the ego to think of doing something very positive for the life, but our dark and wild side is simply very commanding sometimes!

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Depend on Someone or Something: It’s Human Nature

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If there’s one thing we don’t fully understand, it is our nature to depend on someone or something in times of need. A child depends on his or her mother, for example, and the mother on her job or parents. Abraham Lincoln once said, “All that I am or ever hope to be, I owe to my angel mother.”

Going Crazy for Something Unenlightened, Confusing

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If psychiatry has been a perfected science already, then why are there so many people having mental disorder today of whatever form? I should say that knowledge of the God of the Holy Bible has already saved thousands, or even millions, of people from depression or anxiety disorders–from committing suicide! Going crazy? Crazy thoughts are tranquilized by a real faith in Jesus Christ, who said: “Come to Me…I will give you rest.”

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