Psalm 116 focuses on thanksgiving to God for the blessings God has given us. The psalmist wonders how to fully express the deep gratitude felt when God’s promises to us are...

The subtitle of Psalm 116 is “Thanksgiving for Recovery from Illness.” The psalmist begins with words of devotion for God, “I love the Lord because he has heard my voice and...

Peter’s sermon in today’s scripture passage occurs on Pentecost, and he appeals to the crowd with passion and conviction by saying, “Therefore let the entire house of Israel know with certainty...

I was raised in a family active in The United Methodist Church. Though infant baptism is common in the denomination, my family decided not to have me baptized until I was...

Have you ever had an experience so incredible that when you shared it with friends, they did not believe you? Imagine being one of the disciples who discovered the empty tomb...

One afternoon in my second year of college, I had a deep conversation with a friend about college, life, and faith. Before we parted, he asked me a difficult a question:...

In 2006, I was elected as the national president of the United Methodist Youth Fellowship in the Philippines (UMYFP). I headed a small team of young people who were in charge...

When I was a child, my parents would often encourage me to study well because education, they said, was the only inheritance they could give my siblings and me. While public...

Do you remember the early days of social media? If you had a baby or got a pet, went to Disney, a beach in Thailand, or climbed the Eiffel Tower in...

I grew up in the northeastern part of the Philippines, which is visited by about twenty typhoons annually. When we heard the forecast on the radio, we would hunker down for...