FAIR SUNSHINE

An exhortation to undertake the impossible task of understanding the love of God for us, His redemption, and the power that His life gives.    May the Lamb that was slain receive the reward for His suffering.  

The LORD hath given me a great privilege to exhort the brethren in a short message exalting the simplicity of Christ's person, being invited 31 kilometers one way to an informal gathering at dear brother Warren's blessed home along with his beloved wife Angel and a few of the close friends of Puritan Project Philippines. I was honored to have met these souls tonight. At a time when God seems to withdraw His presence, I look only to His faithfulness, not to my limited understanding. My mind unmoved upon Christ's redemptive work despite man's censorious idiocy. God was mindful to send me the comfort I much needed in fellowship with fellow-lovers of the LORD void of obligations, united only by Christ's truth and burden, and not by rules. I am beginning to see a much clearer picture of what "Christianity professed" today: humanism hiding behind a facade of piety. What used to be the shining gems and jewels of Christ's regenerative work now deliberately ove...

PPP is the serving ministry of this kind and dear couple, Warren and Angel, whom I have been privileged to meet and know. Half of what I have received in my library came from them. Their vision is to serve the body of Christ by making hard to find books available at a very low price. Here they are at their book table at the previous conference held at Makati. Much of the work of studying Christ is understood to be "the pastor's job". In prominent churches people find it tedious to carry their bibles to church, much less read it, and even less study it. The business of selling books here is a profitable venture, but it depends largely on the subject. Fictional stories rank highest, religious books maybe at the middle, but the farther you go from the norm, the more difficult it is to sell. The subject of Puritanism is almost unheard of here, its value unrecognized. The prospect of selling it, specialized. Yet God still has mercy to make these treasures available to "th...