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A conversation with a child at church made me nervous and sweaty. I realized that children’s questions were the most profound and the hardest to answer.

Last Sunday, a member’s son asked me if I was watching “May Bukas Pa,” a local TV series aired on ABS- CBN. He asked me if the premise of the show is true- that “Bro,” the endearing term used by the seven year old protagonist to refer to Jesus, really exists and talks to kind young boys. I said yes, and explained that he won’t only talk to Santino, the miracle working child in the series, but to all other children if they will just pray.  Then he quipped, “it was not Jesus who talks to Santino, it was Big Brother!”

I just stood there dumbfounded with my mouth open.

The child’s doubt about Jesus made me realize the adult version of his question: Is there a God?

The world wonders if indeed a supreme being, the uncaused cause of everything there is exists. If he does, how may he be found and where?

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It was said that one day, one of Jesus’ disciples came up to Him and said, “Lord, teach us to pray.”

This statement is the starting point for anyone who wishes to touch the world through prayer. We have been taught many wonderful truths about prayer in our churches, cell groups, Bible Schools and seminaries yet our people still don’t pray; our people still find it hard to mumble even a simple thank you to God simply because we have started on the wrong foot. We have chosen to start our prayer journey on grandiose statements about what prayer can do rather than on a desire to say, “Lord, teach us to pray.” We often tell people that God answers prayer or all things are possible through prayer.

The result is what we see on our churches today: prayer on pursed lips, empty pews during prayer meetings and believers who feel drowsy on a simple mention of the word prayer. Believers are dazzled more by what we say prayer can do- heal the sick, raise the dead, move mountains and so on than by what it will actually bring them eternally. (continue reading…)

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Whenever a rainbow appears in the clouds, I will see it and remember the everlasting covenant between God and all living creatures of every kind on the earth. So God said to Noah, “This is the sign of the covenant between me and all life on the earth.” – Genesis 9:16-17

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Before, it was Snow White from Fairy Land who had a bite from a poisoned apple. Nobody complained because hers is a make-believe story anyway and she survived through a Prince Charming’s kiss anyhow. Today, however, the world is witnessing an alarming phenomenon. Real people are munching poisoned brownies and are slowly dying as a result.

I came across a book recently that is both hailed and booed by critics- hailed by atheists and agnostics but booed by Bible believing enthusiasts. “The Da Vinci Code, ” a novel written by Dan Brown, recently named one of the 100 most influential people in the world today by Time Magazine, combined history, archaeology and theology in what was hailed to be the unveiling of the greatest conspiracy of the past 2000 years. It sold more than 70 million copies worldwide making Brown an international best selling author almost overnight.

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