Faith

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• My father came to the church with a gun

  13 Apr. 2018

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  In 1989, my father came to the Universal Church with a gun around his waist. He wanted to kill the pastor who had “brainwashed” me. He did not understand at the time that thanks to that “brainwashing”, I overcame the desire to die and I was able to forgive him for having cheated on my […]

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• How to pray when you don’t feel like it

  16 Mar. 2018

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  Sometimes I do not feel like praying – and I am a bishop. It’s normal; the human being is very inconsistent. One day you feel you can conquer the world, the next, you don’t even want to be in it. Feelings. If we live by them, we are lost. Thank God there is an alternative: […]

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• Those successful people

  18 Jul. 2017

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  Those successful, accomplished and wealthy people you know don’t necessarily have more qualities or talents than you, but they all have something in common: they dared to believe. They didn’t dwell in the shadows of hesitation. They didn’t ask why or how; they didn’t come up with excuses. They just went ahead, head first. They […]

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• Detach yourself!

  19 Sep. 2015

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    Albert Einstein is credited with the following prediction: “I fear the day that technology will surpass our human interaction. The world will have a generation of idiots.” Albert, it looks like we’ve already reached that point:   Our information consumption habits are destroying our sociability, productivity, power of attention and creativity. That is, we […]

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• To those who need immediate change

  15 Apr. 2015

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    If Jesus, in flesh and blood, came to your house, sat down with you to listen and give you advice, do you believe your problems would be solved? Pause for a second. Picture this: Jesus, in person, sitting down on the couch in front of you, listening, talking to you, and ready to help […]

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• Do you see through your other eyes?

  28 Mar. 2015

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  Part 7 of 7 – click here for part  6   But my eyes are upon You, O GOD the Lord; in You I take refuge; Do not leave my soul destitute. – Psalm 141:8 Keeping your eyes on the invisible is not an easy task. How to look at what can’t be seen? There’s […]

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• A weapon to overcome evildoers

  24 Mar. 2015

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  Part 5 of 7 – click here for part I Part 4 of 7 Part 3 of 7 Part 2 of 7 For my prayer will still be against the deeds of evildoers […] Keep me safe from the traps set by evildoers, from the snares they have laid for me. Let the wicked fall […]

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• Self-help and help from above

  20 Mar. 2015

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  Lord, I cry out to You; Make haste to me! Give ear to my voice when I cry out to You. Let my prayer be set before You as incense, the lifting up of my hands as the evening sacrifice. – Psalm 141:1-2 I believe in both: helping yourself and help from above. Heaven only […]

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• The world’s most underused energy

  05 Feb. 2015

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  One of the ways to measure the progress of mankind through the ages is to observe how it progressively discovered and learned to make use of the various forms of energy available. Starting with its muscle strength and animals, then fire, wind, coal, gas, oil, electricity, then nuclear… and many others. Mankind’s progress is directly connected to the discovery and use of […]

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• As I have thought, so it shall come to pass

  06 Sep. 2014

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    “Surely, as I have thought, so it shall come to pass,
and as I have purposed, so it shall stand.” Isaiah 14:24 “As I have thought, so it shall come to pass” is more than a promise. It shows how God works. If what He thinks happens, then He does not think about what is […]

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