Patrick Mabilog

Why Grace Is Not as Easy as You Think
We might commonly believe that grace is all feel-good and mushy, but a true revelation of God's grace will offend when we truly understand what it is trying to say to us.

Is He the One? 5 Things Every Christian Woman Should Consider About the Man They Are Dating
Here are five questions to ask when considering marriage to a person you are currently dating.

4 Easy Ways to Share Jesus With Your Non-Christian Friends This Christmas
Here are four easy ways that you can share Jesus to people who do not know Christ yet this Christmas.

3 Healthy Responses to the Reality of Hell
The reality of hell can cause us to react in unhealthy fear, legalism or deprecation. But these are not healthy responses.

4 Things You Can Do to Stop Your Personal Success From Becoming an Idol
Anything can become an idolâeven things as good as personal success

How Christians can respond to 'Trump shaming'
Following the rise of U.S. President Donald Trump's political career, a new fad quickly rose across the world: Trump shaming. There are memes, jokes, articles, satire pieces, and opinions that all predict an impending doom for the Trump presidency.

Why It's Important That Christian Parents Be Their Child's Friends, Not Their Morality Police
Moralistic discipline can seem like a quick fix because it does bring results. It changes the child's behavior. However, only love can change a child's heart.

Stuck in Sin? If Jesus Can Change Your Eternal Destination, Trust Him to Change Your Heart As Well
It's ironic how we sometimes feel stuck thinking that God can save people from hell, but not be able to change them in this present age.

How to Spot the Difference Between Godly Love for Someone and Godless Infatuation
Infatuation may appear like love at the surface, but it's very different in many ways. Here are a few ways that love and infatuation will go different directions all together.

10 Things That Try to Steal Your Identity But Shouldn't
Many things can try to rob our identity in Christ. There's nothing wrong with these things, but they are just not good bases of identity because that's a role only God can play. Here are 10 things that try to steal your identity.

7 Easy Money Mistakes and How to Avoid Them
Here are seven money mistakes that show bad stewardship and how we can fix those mistakes.

3 Tips for Overcoming Impatience and the Need for Instant Gratification
At the heart of delayed gratification is a biblical principle of patience that believers can and should all grow in. Here are three tips to overcome impatience in a time when people desire instant gratification.

How should Christians respond to Fake News
Within Christian circles, some of us have become victims to misleading news that can even be "Christian" in nature. Miraculous healing that never happened, mass conversions in the Middle East and signs of rapture and second coming â the list could go on.

Why Obeying God Doesn't Have to be Stressful
Rules today are attached to a stigma of joylessness. We think of laws and regulations and most of the time we might associate it to a limitation.

5 Ways to Show Respect When We Don't Agree
We will always have opinions that will differ with those of others, but it doesn't have to turn into a fight. We can and must still show respect even in the midst of diverse ideas.

6 Ways That You've Probably Misunderstood Purpose
Culture, society and the flaws of this world have distorted our idea of godly purpose and may sometimes leave us chasing after the wrong things or jumping off the wrong mindsets. Here are six ways that we have probably misunderstood purpose.