I’m confident we all would agree that 2008 was a tough year: war, a tumbling stock market, natural disasters, the continued threat of terrorism, and an ever-widening political divide. You can’t help but wonder if 2009 is going to be more of the same. Perhaps we all need an encouraging (but challenging) word to get [...]

By Mrs. Reah B. Padla
A few days from now Josh and I will celebrate our first anniversary as a married couple. Honestly, I still can’t believe that we’ve already been married for a year!
So how would I describe our first year? Well, it was a magnificent adventure worth writing about, a year of [...]

By Jennifer Legaspi
The year 2009 started as I finished reading another book: How To Ruin Your Life By 40 by Steve Ferrar. Its assertion is quite simple and surely familiar to us: The decisions we make now will define the rest of our lives. I wonder, however, if we actually realize the gravity of that [...]

By Ptr. Jesse Dedel
(This was the devotional message I shared to the ICS Sanctuary Choir on the morning of their performance.)
Someone distilled jazz for me into this one succinct phrase when he said, “Jazz is all about hitting the perfect wrong note.”
When I heard that, my mind remembered a story I read somewhere about a [...]

Exactly one week after the klieg lights were dimmed from “Prince of Peace”, ICS’ Christmas Cantata, they were lit up once more for “Household Of Faith”, an inspirational concert featuring Ms. Sheng Felias-Alcaraz.
Sis. Sheng, a regular guest singer during ICS Sunday mornings, has shaken the rafters of our sanctuary more than once with her high-flying [...]

By Marie Gaie Nolledo
Last December 21st 2008, CROSSLinC, together with some YA, left ICS for an overnight retreat in Jest Camp, Subic. Christmas break had just started. No more school papers, projects and assignments to work on overnight. It was time to have fun and enjoy nature and His Presence.
It took 3 long hours before [...]

By Andrea Padla
“Prince of Peace”, the ICS Christmas Cantata for 2008, composed by Roger Strader, was most fitting during this time of worldwide economic depression. The special event was a perfect way for Christians to reinforce their belief in an Omnipotent God and for non-believers to find refuge in Him in the face of overwhelming [...]