Life Archives - Jun P. Espina

The Fleeting Nature of Life
Why is Life so Fleeting

August 31, 2024August 30, 2024 by Jun P. Espina

In this life, we exist for a fleeting moment. The fleeting nature of life means we usually spend our fleeting moments with food, money-making, friends, and relationships. However, time changes during our retirement years. When wrinkles cover your face and walking around your house without your bones aching becomes your most triumphant performance of the day, money is no longer a hot pursuit. Life is a story about being born into this world and then dying with everything we worked hard for becoming meaningless.

RICHES AND SPIRITUALITY: A CALL TO FOCUS ON THE ETERNAL

July 18, 2023 by Jun P. Espina

If you are interested in yourself, it is strange that you are disinterested in the assurance of your destiny after this life. Why not focus also on the eternal? Steve Jobs discovered this on his deathbed.

About the Book Reflecting on the Word

August 25, 2024April 19, 2023 by Jun P. Espina

I have been a listener in the church since I retired from my preaching career, and all I noticed was the struggle of most preachers in looking for a biblical sermon idea. They were like being trained in the seminary, where “theology is king.” I had a friend who had memorized his church doctrines like he was going to take the bar exam. But when you asked him something that deviated from his tanked Bible teachings, he would become clueless, like a cabdriver without GPS. That is how most modern preachers have turned out to be these days. They cannot speak for Jesus since their theology has swallowed them.

WHAT IF COVID-19 WOULD HIT AND KILL US THIS YEAR?

October 31, 2022June 22, 2021 by Jun P. Espina

What if COVID-19 would his and kill us this year? The year 2021 is riskier than other years in our lifetime. Big governments tell us that. True or not, we must prepare spiritually for any eventuality. We could be hit anytime since COVID-19 is unseen—it is unpredictable as lightning particularly in countries with poor hospital equipment and resources. Where shall we go should this virus put us to sleep forever? The first question which a sensible old person—taking maintenance drug—should ask while in the hospital bed is, “Can I get out of this place alive?”

We Need to Know More About the Born-Again Experience

August 25, 2024March 11, 2021 by Jun P. Espina

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I wrote this book, “Born Again Christ’s Version,” to help the reader understand Christ’s teachings on gaining eternal life through faith in His promises. For me, we need to learn more about the born-again experience, which is the topic flooding the Internet.

Christian Teachings Revisited: A Brief Review Highlighting Ageless Christian Experience

November 18, 2022November 14, 2019 by Jun P. Espina

This book, Christian Teachings Revisited, covers familiar but crucial and decisive topics such as the salvation of our souls and the future of the saved ones in Christ after the Millennium. I don’t expect those non-religious and atheists around to have a little interest in this paper but I considered them nevertheless in writing this book. Its subtitle reflects this commitment: “32 Christ-Uplifting Chapters for Both the Truth-Seekers and the Skeptics.” The skeptics and atheists are welcome to benefit or attack (as they please!) this material. What is important is that this humble author wrote this work with both the truth-seekers and atheists in his mind and heart. For Christ taught that “the Son of Man has come to seek and to save that which was lost.” (Luke 19:10)

The Christian Doctrine of Finding True Happiness

November 17, 2022November 4, 2017 by Jun P. Espina

But since the birth of Christianity, the true followers of our Lord have experienced this Christian doctrine of Spirit-caused calmness of the soul. They wrote songs and hymns hundreds of years ago with the same lyrical subject of joy in the Lord, and churches have used them in their services until now.

The Meaning of Life and How Every Minute Counts

November 18, 2022November 2, 2017 by Jun P. Espina

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Updated on November 18th, 2022

Your Fame and Pleasures Do Not Define the Meaning of Life ▸

The real meaning of life lies in its perpetual nature—its permanence and everlastingness. Christ came to prove our bodies’ resurrection after death. Both our souls and bodies were created to last forever. Life, therefore, is not pleasure, achievement, fame, travel, good health, longevity, or other similar matters we experience since all these will pass away. Rather, it is how we can defeat hell—our natural home after death, given our lack of interest in heaven and the things of God! It is how we can be forgiven and saved; it is how to enter heaven and live there forever together with Abraham, Jacob, the angels of God, and Jesus Christ, our Lord. Life’s meaning is our immortality! Anything less than that is worthless (not worth spending all our time and strength on!) because of death.