"You might be wondering why I volunteered to come to Israel as a medical doctor. I'll tell you a brief story. My father is a pastor. My mother is a teacher in a Christian school. I have a younger sister at home. Her name is Eloise. I remember a message given by my father in one of the Sunday services in our church, the Atlanta Baptist Church. This was back when I was in high school. He mentioned the various signs of the Lord Jesus Christ's second coming to earth – the increase of false Chr...

The French government wanted to have influence in the British-controlled Palestine after the United Nations' 1947 partition of the ancient land to the Jews and the Palestinian Arabs. The French government of Charles de Gaulle donated 5,000 rifles, 250 Bren guns, 5 million bullets, 50 bazookas, and 10 Bren carriers. These arms and ammunitions were carried by the ship Altalena when it left the seaport of Marseille, France on June 11, 1948 and sailed to the port of Tel Aviv, Israel.The...

Dismas, one of the thieves who was crucified on the right side of Jesus, recognized Annas. He met him three years ago. Annas asked for a huge sum of money from Dismas' mother Deborah so that he could ask the Roman prison authority in Jerusalem to release Dismas' father.

Nadine Joseph, a lady from Saint Lucia in the Caribbean, was one of the more than 200 students and speakers of English as a second language who were listening to the speaker in the conference in Baguio City. It was held in a big hotel in the summer capital of the Philippines.Nadine used to work in the United States before she came to the Philippines to study in a school in Silang, Cavite. She was tall, had beautiful eyes, a well-proportioned nose, and a dark tanned complexion. She w...

Jerusalem Angela Mercado was not so sure if she was prepared to take the 2016 Medical Board Examinations in Manila, Philippines after her classes in a review center in Manila ended in January 2015.When her father, Norberto, asked her if she would take the physician's examination the following month, she couldn't readily reply to the former's query. She was, in fact, speechless."How did you fare in your review class?" her father asked her. It was breakfast time in their house....

"Fiestas should never be banned in the Philippines," Catherine Steinberg told her high school batchmate from the Moncada Catholic School. She was on vacation in her hometown in the Philippines."Do you have fiesta celebrations in Denmark, too?" Alma de la Cruz, her batchmate, asked her."Well, sort of. But not the fiesta we have in almost every town in the Philippines. Here in our country, fiestas have been a tradition of our people since the Spanish colonial times.

The town of Rhinocolura had a seaport called Al Arish. Passengers from the town of Raphia in Judah travelled to Egypt by crossing the river using the boatsoperated by Egyptian entrepreneurs. This is the town where Joseph, Mary and the Child Jesus first entered when they escaped from the town of Bethlehem in Judah.

Kara sang well. It was amazing how she memorized the lyrics of the song at such a young age.As she sang, my thoughts wondered to the time when my mother Francisca Lacierna Mercado, and her younger sister Ninay, fetched their sick brother Gadong who escaped from his Japanese captors during the infamous Death March in April 1942…

"I have always longed to come back to the Philippines. It is my home. Everything in my life started in my country," Catherine told her seatmate, Laura Khristenson, in the plane on a long flight from Denmark to Manila.Laura was surprised.Her seatmate, a Caucasian from Denmark, was visiting the Philippines for the first time. She was with five other tourists from Denmark. They would visit thePhilippines, Malaysia, and Singapore, before heading to Sydney, Australia....

"Sir, is it alright to ask a question? I just want to clarify something," Nathan Ong asked the American missionary who had been conducting the Bible Study series on End-Time Prophecy."Yes, Nathan. What's your question?" Reverend Hutcheson asked the newcomer."Sir, isn't it true that a person who rejects the Lord Jesus Christ as his God, Savior, and Lord, goes to Hell right after he dies. Why is it that he will still be judged at the Great White Throne Judgment? Do the inhabita...

"Why would King Herod look for my Child to kill Him?" she asked Joseph."I don't know…" Joseph replied.Mary asked him where they would go."The angel told me to go to Egypt with you and our Child, and stay there until he tells us to leave," Joseph replied.Mary felt a certain joy when Joseph stated "our Child" to her even though he knew that the Child Jesus was miraculously born of the Holy Spirit, and not by natural means. She appreciated Joseph for his kind gestu...

Cara, a well traveled Lithuanian-American businesswoman, has uncovered the truth she was asked to search for in Macau. Ecological destruction results in a terrifying natural disaster.SOME WINDS BLOW FOREVER is a social novel which shows the tragic consequences of ecological destruction. It appeals to the present generation (through the presentation of a horrifying incident in the Philippines - the Ormoc flashflood which killed more than 8,000 people) to help in the preservation of ...