Monthly Archives: October 2011

All Out Series: Setting People Free

“A unique series on living a life ALL OUT for God, WITHOUT any challenge throughout the whole series to read your Bibles more, to pray more, to give more, to sacrifice more, to evangelize more, to serve more, to be … Continue reading

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“…God understands.” – Pastor Jun Cebanico

[Kindly read my previous two posts to understand the context of this one. Thanks.] I saw in several posts on Facebook a quote from Pastor Jun Cebanico, Given Grace Cebanico’s father, that says, “We don’t understand but God understands.” When … Continue reading

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Given Grace – When God Doesn’t Make Sense

Last night I wrote a blog post in tribute to Given Grace Cebanico and I hadn’t realized the impact that it would make and, morse so, how many people would be reading it.  In the first two hours after it … Continue reading

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Given Grace has been given grace: A tribute

It was only today that I heard of news of a tragedy that happened in my alma mater, The University of the Philippines Los Banos (UPLB). Given Grace Cebanico, a third year BS Computer Science student, an Evangelical Christian and … Continue reading

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Unamazed by grace?

[Download the mp3-format audio recording of the message by clicking on this.  It will open up another tab or window for the download site.  Please DO NOT right-click and save-as because this would save the download page instead of the … Continue reading

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The Great Passion (abridged version)

“Then Jesus came to them and said, ‘All authority in heaven and on earth has been given to me. Therefore go and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and … Continue reading

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The Great Passion (full version)

[This essay is relatively long and more personal compared to my other posts. To read the less personal and abridged (shortened) version, click here. I do hope if you have the time, you would read the full version here because … Continue reading

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Faithful to the faithless

“But by the grace of God I am what I am, and his grace to me was not without effect. No, I worked harder than all of them—yet not I, but the grace of God that was with me.” 1 … Continue reading

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To the striving, tired, discouraged or condemned Christian:

“For he chose us in him before the creation of the world to be holy and blameless in his sight. In love he predestined us to be adopted as his sons through Jesus Christ, in accordance with his pleasure and … Continue reading

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Victory assured!

What would it be like living your life knowing that you could never fail? “But thanks be to God! He gives us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ. Therefore, my dear brothers, stand firm. Let nothing move you. Always … Continue reading

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