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Last night, I finally got on Grace Talk Soup to talk about my own testimony on how the Lord found me and on being a homemaker. It was the first time I was invited to talk about myself and how I became a believer and honestly, I am not proud of how it all turned out.
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Lately, I am starting to notice a few drastic changes in my life. I seem to be losing and gaining at the same time and the process can be physically and emotionally draining at times.
I was chatting with Sis. Vangie the other day and I said something to her that made me see where the physical toil and emotional “madness” is coming from.
Incidentally, it was also the same day that I had to finally confront a homosexual former classmate and let her know my stand. Well, this friend had been bugging me for quite sometime now about her “crush”, also a former high school friend and a female. My homosexual classmate’s been asking me to find the girl’s phone number and to “bridge” for her.
The first time she asked me about a month ago, I turned her down gently, just laughing it off, sending her a series of ROFL emoticons ended with a short “guffaw”, then I immediately signed out, well, changed stealth settings on her I mean.
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for the past few days i was witnessing my wife’s persecutions
i know she is emotional
most women would be
and would get offended easily
but i confirmed with her that we as Christians exist in this world to evangelize
to be like Christ
to be salt and light of this world
and not to defend ourselves
because ourselves are gone
we have died to ourselves and live to God
the old has gone and the new has come
i see her nodding in agreement
but later on shed turn back to what she just vomitted
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Sigh…
This, my dearest friends, is what happens when we step into the battle-ground alone. We are not simply battered and bruised, we are also terribly defeated.
I confess, the past days I have been struggling for self-preservation (which I actually was not aware that it was until pointed out to me by Pastor Larry), I have been wallowing in self-pity in this little corner of my selfish world, sinning as I go along- cursing and killing people in my mind and in my heart, seeking and feeling thirsty for vengeance.
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“Make amends with this person you have hurt first before facing the Lord God!”
These words were vehemently thrown into my face this morning by someone who tells me she is a Christian. I was taken aback by her words. They were strong, commanding and filled with hatred for me.
Yes, I have hurt people in the past and though I tried to make amends, I was brushed off with hurtful and condemning words. So I resolved to stay in my own little world and shove it all behind, I tried not to look back because each time I would do so, I was being met with expletives, accusations and belittling. I was called names, names not even a dog would dare be called.
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Filipino celebrities joined the international campaign against foie gras (say FWAH-GRAH) by taking the ‘No Foie Gras’ Pledge organized by PETA Asia-Pacific. The Pledge states that they will never buy or eat foie gras because they ‘believe that force-feeding ducks and geese with long metal tubes is extremely cruel.’ The signatories of the pledge include model Isabel Roces, Senator Bong Revilla, and veteran actor Eddie Gutierrez. Let’s follow their lead and do an online pledge against foie gras here…
Our quote today comes from Ludwig Büchner, born today in 1824. He was one of the philosophers who popularized materialism and based his worldview on the facts and discoveries established by the philosophers of the natural world (science). in 1881 he founded the “Deutsche Freidenkerbund”(German Freethinkers League) which served as the first atheist group in…
Happy Labor Day to everyone! Here’s a little story about an entreprenuer who hates the internal revenue service…
I was doing my usual Monday morning blog-hopping activity when I saw this on Baddie’s, uhm, “universe”: The New Seven Deadly Sins: I’m Screwed.
Well, I didn’t know that the Vatican recently added seven new deadly sins. I know, I know, some of those who are informed are probably rolling their eyes and shaking their heads while breathlessly asking the wind, “were you just born yesterday, girly?” or something to that effect, but, sigh, I’ve been really out of the loop lately, I know. trump2
Anyway, according to FoxNews.Com, the Vatican’s list include drug dealing, genetic engineering, social injustice, polluting, pedophilia, abortion and being Donald Trump or Paris Hilton, err, I mean, being obscenely rich.
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I just have to write about this. Please indulge me.
Last night, while Warren was in the middle of a heated exchange with his elder brother, I sat by my husband’s side watching his facial expressions closely, each time I’d see his eyes flicker and dim, albeit only for split seconds, I’d prod him to tell me what had just transpired. I kept on prodding and did not give up, purposefully because I wanted my husband to immediately release the pain by sharing the impact with me. I wanted him to feel that I wanted to share the moment with him, no matter how ugly, because we are one flesh.
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The last two days have been burdensome for Warren. He even blogged about it yesterday while he was feeling downtrodden. I stood beside him trying to give him comfort and assured him that he is doing the right thing, but for a man who looked up to his family as his lifeline for 29 years, my words of comfort – no matter how Scripture-based- are just not enough.
He may be in pain but I am so proud of Warren because he continues to stand his ground even up to this minute, by God’s grace. He repeatedly declined the offer for him to be godfather to his nephew who is scheduled for baptism, under Catholic rites, in two weeks. We both thought that after making that clear to everyone, life will go on as usual. Well, we were wrong.
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So, I did not snap my head out of my neck because it isn’t really the wisest thing to do given the circumstances, but there was huge relief and, of course, guilt.
I felt relieved because it felt good to finally see that I wasn’t actually facing a blank wall after all. You know, there really is a huge difference between being blind when you aren’t really blind and being truly blind and finally being able to see. In my case, I was the former.
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for the past few days we havent been doing our devotions
rarely un utter of prayer a day
all our thoughts were about work
what to wear
what to eat
but nothing much about God
or our Christian life
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last sunday we skipped church
so tired because of the heat
too tired to stand up and commute to church
prayer meeting we also skipped
nightly prayers skipped
reading the bible skipped
quite time skipped
we worked hard
we deserved rest
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It took me a while to realize that what is “small and petty” in my eye is “big and bold” in the eye of the Lord. When I thought I was simply being a brat, stomping my feet and insisting on “logic and reason”, I was actually committing the one sin that God hated the most – idolatry.
Last night, while Warren and I realized upon assessment that we are just like any other couple who fight, he mentioned the importance of keeping Christ in the center of our marriage as our only hope, he explained to me that this is precisely the reason why we need to continue growing spiritually as Christians. Instead of me submitting to my husband at that moment and agreeing with what he said, I turned away and made my own “little scene”…
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An experimental timelapse work i’d like to share and show how God’s work is just sooo beautiful…
Please click on this to see the video.
praise God for the time He has given my wife and i to spend more time with each other
though i have to borrow my mom’s car for that to happen
yeah so we dont have a car yet
i felt like a 13yr old pimple-faced boy borrowing things from my mom though
and i borrowed it at the time my mom was about to do her regular chores
so we have to do that for her
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at the end of the day after doing my mom’s chores, hazel and i went to the mall of asia
probably the biggest mall in asia i dont know
i felt a bit of a pity on myself realizing that i have to borrow the car from my mom
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The other night, Warren was deeply immersed with reading the book of Luke (which he always does) when he suddenly bobbed his head from behind his Bible to share with me what he understood from the verse.
“To me, this means we as Christians are representatives of Christ, so wherever we go, whoever it is we are talking to, we should always remember that we are there to represent Christ, then there is really no need to tell them, “hey, I’d like to invite you to our church…”, instead, we can go right ahead and evangelize from there…”
I have forgotten what part in the book of Luke that is, but I remember coming by his side and reading it to see how I would understand what is written. I agree with my husband.
The following morning, we were walking around the community for morning exercise when he expressed his fear of not being able to share more openly with other people, of not being able to evangelize and of not being a zealous soldier of God.
I have always known my husband to be an introvert, in fact when we first met; I repeatedly had to ask him what was bothering him because there were moments during that day when he would just cave in, like something would wrap around him that not even I could get through. He would be staring from afar and be silent for minutes on end.
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Me, on Grace Talk Soup? I could not believe it, but yes, and I am soooo thrilled!
In between blanching the broccoli and grilling the baby back ribs, my eyes would dart to the laptop and my fingers would be, figuratively speaking, itching to type this post… I could not wait long enough to have the time to sit and start announcing to the whole world about the invitation I received from Jojo Tabares this morning.
I was reading KC Concepcion’s blog (well, I do read local celebrity articles, too, and it’s fun!) which I stumbled upon at Clare’s when an email alert popped up on my screen.
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They will storm the Davao City council meeting on Tuesday. Find out more at Catholic Church vs Davao City
For those who may have stumbled upon yesterday’s post and are wondering just who Joel Osteen REALLY is, this post is for you.
According to Wikipedia, Joel Osteen is the senior pastor of Lakewood Church in Houston, Texas, he is married, was born in 1963 so that makes him only fourty-four years old as of this writing.
“He was featured as one of Barbara Walters’ “10 Most Fascinating People of 2006″ and was named “Most Influential Christian in America in 2006 by The Church Report. His second book, Become a Better You, was released in October 2007 with a first printing of three million copies.”
Sounds like a really impressive guy, huh? But wait till you watch this:
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Yesterday, Warren and I were invited to have lunch with a former client from Houston, Texas. He is in the country for a three week vacation with his family and to do some business as well.
Tim and I go a long way back, back to late 2006 or early 2007, but back in the days we never discussed anything that is near religion. I have always assumed he is a Buddhist.
You see, this man is a Vietnamese, he was one of those boat people who paddled their way out of Vietnam in the 1980’s. He was eleven at that time. Staying six full months in a Vietnamese refugee camp in the Philippines (he could not exactly remember if it was in Batangas or Palawan), he was later boarded on a plane for the United States of America where he was eventually naturalized as a citizen.
Tim, indeed, is a very lucky man for having been given the opportunity to rebuild his life in the land of milk and honey. He got his education, became a software engineer, earned enough to start his own business, got laid off from work and finally had reason to become his own boss, and now, he is one of the young, successful and powerful (hey, you are powerful when you are rich, by human standards, isn’t it?) rich men in Texas. He is only thirty two years old and a father to two beautiful boys. Life is rosy and full of promises for him. Or is it?
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Despite persistent lobbying by the Catholic Church, the Department of Education is bent on teaching sex education in the public high schools. Find out more at Philippines Department of Education launches Sex Education in High School
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Horrors of horrors, that was the first thing that came to my mind when I saw a local paper’s front page last Thursday. It carried the news of the destruction of one of Cebu’s oldest churches. The 160-year old Immaculate Conception Parish and its convent in the southern town of Oslob was gutted by fire.
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After suffering a defeat, the theological empire strikes again. Find out more @ Catholic Church vs Quezon City: Round 2
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