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(This article was published on the website of GMA News: http://www.gmanetwork.com/news/story/260538/opinion/blogs/congressman-manny-pacquiao-and-the-a-team ) Lately, I’ve been playing the song “A-Team”. The first time I heard this song was a couple of days ago as I was fiddling through the dials of my satellite radio on way to work. I heard bits and pieces of a hauntingly […]

(Delivered during the celebration of University Christian Life Emphasis Week on February 4, 2012, Udarbe Memory Chapel) Text: “Joshua 1: 8-9;” “Luke 4: 18-19;” “Isaiah 42:6” Meditating on the theme based on the Scripture text taken from Joshua 1: 8-9, “Be Strong and Take Courage,” takes me back in time as I address the students […]

When I took the Bar examination in November 2011, topping it never entered my mind. All I wanted was to pass. Until now, the reality of having placed Top 6 in the Bar examination mystifies me. I do not know how I did it. What I’m only sure of is that I did my best […]

(Text appeared in his column in a national daily and a local weekly.) I listened last night (February 18) to Renato Solidum Jr., director of Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology (Phivolcs) and Leo Jasareno, director of the Mines and Geohazard Bureau (MGB), explain before a television audience composed of journalists and some officials of […]

The minute I stepped foot on the Antarctic Shelf, I felt the excitement and appreciation of God’s work.  There was nothing much to see in my surroundings, other than hard ice masses everywhere; and yet, there, I felt an environment that was chaste and uncorrupt by civilization.  It was delightful!  At the same time, I […]

The Dumaguete community mourns the loss of a dedicated and compleat artist and cultural icon at a time when the entire Christiandom was in the thick of preparations to greet the new year. Evelyn Rose Romano Aldecoa, 55, peacefully passed into eternal life in her sleep in the early morning of December 29, 2011. She […]

Opening Prayer: God our Heavenly Father, It is here in the study of Your Word, and under the guiding light of Your Holy Spirit who helps us to go deeper in our understanding, that we will find the tools we need to lead. Continue to remind us that the source of true leadership — true […]

Let us pray. Jesus, may you touch our hearts and minds as we learn from your Word this morning. In Jesus’ name, Amen. Our passage reads, “Be strong in the Lord, and in the power of His might.” Many people think that when they become Christians, all their troubles are over. Life is easier henceforth. […]

Hebrews 3:1-2; Luke 24:19; Luke 1:32-33 Introduction Thank you very much for inviting me to deliver the keynote address at this year’s edition of the national Church Workers Convocation. This is a great honor. Whether I can live up to your expectation,I am not sure. Convocation organizers took a risk in pressing into service the […]

The two houses of Congress had barely started their hearings on the 2012 budget than the world was jolted with the news that Standard & Poor’s had downgraded the United States from its AAA rating to AA+. The event triggered turmoil in the global markets. The Philippine market was, likewise, affected. In the meantime, senators […]