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Personal Testimony

Since the website is a worldwide publication, those
who have read my sermons from different places
have sent me affirmations of encouragement. Some
of them were asking for spiritual advice and we
have been communicating through the Internet.
It is encouraging to know that God can use an
ordinary Christian like me to touch people’s lives.

There are those who ask who I am. But as much
as possible I don’t want to talk about my ministry
and who I am, because I am not promoting myself.
I want my readers to focus on the message and
not on the messenger. But since my sermons will
be available in this book here, I’ll share to you
very briefly my background. Looking back to what
has happened in my life; I can now understand
why God allowed those experiences: I can relate
to people who have similar experiences like mine.

I have been a nightclub singer
in Manila, Philippines at one point
of my life for quite a while. I sang
in different nightclubs and while
I was in that business, I have
been associated with the mobs.
If you are a male vocalist in an
orchestra, you cannot avoid hav-
ing a lot of women in your life. For
so long I have been wallowing in
the mud of sin. But when I heard
God’s Word through a preacher, suddenly being bad because I was once a thug.
faith in Jesus grew in my heart and I thirst
for God’s Word. I got born again in 1975. Most of my friends in my hometown who
God made a miracle and changed my life. knew me find it mind-blowing to see how
God can use a wretched sinner like me.
Hoodlums are religious too. Most of the But there will be no miracle and God’s
members of my gang were profession- grace cannot be demonstrated if He uses
al killers. At the time, Dewey Boulevard a good natured, clean and righteous
in Manila Philippines was their territory, man. But no! God will use a wretched
it was where high class night clubs were vile sinner to demonstrate His grace. God
lined up for miles. We used to go to has the power to change a man’s heart.
Church at night in Baclaran. We were se-
riously religious, that is why I can relate What I am writing in my sermons is not
to people who are fanatics because I just theory but my own true-to-life expe-
was once a fanatic too. I know how it is riences. I did not copy my sermons from
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