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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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Christian Holy Week Observance Examined Biblically

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

One significant question is that if we are real born-again Christians, do we need to celebrate or observe the Holy Week? In just a mouse click away, we could google dozens of the list of religious holidays (or holydays?) The Jewish religion, Islam, Catholicism, Seventh Day Adventism, among other religious groups observe "holidays requiring absence from work beyond existing Statutory Holidays." What is the meaning of the Christian Holy Week observance among the Catholics and other Christians denominations?

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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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Promised Immortality to Christ’s Truly Regenerated Followers

Jun P. Espina March 27, 2017February 15, 2020

Promised immortality to Christ's truly regenerated followers. 1000 years life on earth is a pale comparison with the Christian promised immortality .... A brief life that is devotedly faithful to Jesus Christ as Lord and personal Savior is better off than a hundred years of a Christless existence. Leonardo da Vinci once said that "a life well-spent is a long life." This thought, profound as it may appear, is still inadequate if used to describe the Christian hope of eternal life in heaven with God. Set side by side with the promised immortality through faith in Christ, a thousand years...

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Understanding Physical Death and the Life Beyond

Jun P. Espina October 3, 2016February 15, 2020

A few months after her public announcement of her illness, Senator Miriam Santiago of the Philippines, said: "I licked cancer in three months." She ran for president in May 2016 election and less that five months after, she died. Death is a cruel master. He has the power to kill a janitor or a senator. Understanding physical death from the teachings of Jesus Christ and the Holy Scriptures is, therefore, second to none in significance.

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Brave Faith of the Christian Missionaries

Jun P. Espina August 7, 2016February 17, 2020

The "refrain" portion of this poem conveys precisely the life of the Christian worker in the mission field: "Brave faith I must have---brave I must be to Jesus." I wrote somewhere about the conversion of the Mouk tribe in New Guinea. Brave faith is the only fitting description of what the Christian missionaries did to this people group.

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