Baptist Cafe

I was working with blind and visually impaired people when the Lord found me a decade ago, and He granted me the chance to minister to them until today. One of my initial concerns (aside from their salvation and church membership) was how blind and visually impaired people can have access to the Bible, and I searched online and wrote emails and requested for Braille and audio Bibles.  God provided through some ministries (mostly in the US) and sometimes through the Resources for the Blind, Inc. (RBI) . Following are some of the websites where you can access audio Bibles for download or online listening: (Photo from scourby.com) King James Bible audio as narrated by Alexander Scourby  - Listen online or download mp3 files or apps for iOS or Android. (We got a set of CDs for our Ministry for the Blind, via RBI.) (Photo from  http://www.audiotreasure.com) King James Version recording by Stephen Johnston - Listen online or download .zip files. (I used an...

Photo from http://www.reachingthephilippines.com I'm not Cebuano or Visayan, but just sharing a link to the Cebuano New Testament published by Filipino Resource for Evangelism and Edification (FREE), Inc., "a registered organization which was formed to support the project of the translation of the English King James Version Bible into different languages here in the Philippines, Asia and of the whole world."  F.R.E.E. was founded in 1999 by Pastor Ruben Sulapas of  of Riverspring Baptist Bible Church in Iligan City, Philippines.   (Watch the story of F.R.E.E. at  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ehOAzTd3Rs .) Pastor Sulapas with wife Marilyn and daughter Michelle (Photo from http://www.firstbible.org) A screenshot of the PDF version of the Cebuano New Testament: For the PDF copy, CLICK HERE . For more about Pastor Sulapas and F.R.E.E.: http://www.firstbible.org/missions/philippinescebuanoruben.html http://standardbisaya.blogspot.co...

Sooner or later, each Bible-believing Christian must learn how to study his or her own Bible.  Definitely, each Pastor must have learned (and still learning) the various methods of studying the Bible.  After all, the Bible is our sole authority for doctrine and in our lives (at least that's how it's supposed to be). My Bible school Hermeneutics teacher used for our class the textbook "How to Study the Bible", which in Part 1 we learned: 1. Begin with Prayer. 2. Identify the Context. 3. Observe the Obvious. 4. Deal with the text Objectively. 5. Read with a Purpose. Of course, there's a lot more to it than those 5 things.  But if that's all you will learn then that's a very good start. To read the whole thing, CLICK HERE . Some screenshots of the book: ENJOY STUDYING THE BIBLE!

What Happens When I Die? We all know we're going to die eventually. But what happens after we die? Maybe at death you simply cease to exist.   Your body turns to dust and, well, that's it.   Game over. Or maybe something does happen after you die. What if life somehow continues? Maybe you're reborn as someone or something else.   Then you die.   Then you're reborn.   Then you die...   And so on, until you're finally enlightened and become one with the universe. Or perhaps you become a shadowy ghost, wandering in the underworld. Or maybe you're judged on how good you've been.   If you've done more good than bad, you win! Here's the problem:   If you're alive, there's no way to know what it's like after death.   Unless someone dies then comes back to life and tells us about it. According to His followers, that's precisely what Jesus did.   If this claim is true, then He can provide us with a clea...

Went last Monday to Papa on his 75th birthday.  I was not able to talk to him as much as I wanted to since he was coughing much of the time, plus he is already partially deaf.  I kept on observing him, though, wondering what he was thinking of on his diamond birthday. In a while, amid the eating and blowing of the birthday candle and whatnots, Ma handed to me something my brother (who was on a trip) wanted to give me on an earlier occasion: an autographed copy of Rich Abante Moats' recent album "Lord, I'm Yours".  Tracks include "Oh, the Cross", "You Love Me Still / Great is Thy Faithfulness", "Power of the Cross / At the Cross", "My God Will Always Be Enough", and "The Rock of Jesus / The Solid Rock" featuring saxophonist Ner de Leon. Sis. Rich stated in the album cover flap, "This album is my testimony.  How the Lord rescued a sinner like me and gave up His life that I might live." The singer...