No-sugarcoated musing, discussions, and tales about theology, masculinity, femininity, and adulting for Filipino evangelical young adults.
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Hello and welcome to 2025! If you have gone to church last Sunday, you probably were encouraged by your pastor or church leader to start reading the Bible regularly this year. This may mean that you will make a resolution to complete reading the Bible for a year, or something similar. However, for many of you, you’ve tried to do this before, yet failed. Make a resolution, then try, then fail, then repeat next year. . And that means for some, you are no longer eager to try to read the Bible regularly this year.
Today, Bro. Jaypee Manalo joins me to talk about their Bible reading goal in their church, Fundamental Baptist Church in San Isidro, San Fernando, Pampanga. Jaypee is an avid reader, and also a big believer in Bible reading. Listen to our episode as we discuss why Bible reading is beneficial, what challenges can occur when you step forward in Bible reading, and how to deal with the challenges.
Praying God will use this to edify you.
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24 Dec 2024
Episode 12: The Christmas Myth of Sentimentalism
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21 Dec 2024
Episode 11: What if Christmas is becoming too commercialized and materialistic?
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17 Dec 2024
Episode 10: What if Christmas is a pagan holiday?
What if you found out Christmas really is a holiday rooted in pagan festivals? Should we continue celebrating it? Listen as I present a case why Christians CAN celebrate Christmas even if you found out that it has pagan beginnings.
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3 Dec 2024
Episode 9: Elusive Contentment
Anxious? Frustrated? Stress? All these are words we use to mask discontentment bubbling in our hearts. A good dose of God’s Word can help unmask your discontentment and enable you to experience that elusive contentment you have been yearning for. Take a listen.
Credits to Douglas Wilson’s preaching on Strange Contentment in his sermon series, Practical Christian Living. I listened to it at canonplus.com (https://canonplus.com/).
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5 Oct 2024
Episode 8: Deepening Spirituality
First off, thank you for taking the time to listen. This episode is the continuation on our discussion on spirituality and righteousness. Last episode (https://tituslaxajr.substack.com/p/episode-7-by-what-standard-are-you), we discussed how Colossians 2 warns us of how we can be specialists in surface-level righteousness by being active in the church, abstaining from church-approve prohibition items, and maybe even a supernatural feels. Yet some of us may be using these performances to cover up the filthy, icky dung that our pet sins have left in our hearts.
Today, we look at Colossians 3, and how Christ makes it possible for you who is stuck in sin, to have true, deepening spirituality and righteousness.
(P.S., Sorry as the recording seems to end abruptly, I didn’t realize my recorder stopped recording somewhere in the middle of my soliloquy. Thankfully it cut towards the end, so the bulk of the discussion is intact. The missing/lacking part: application. Again so sorry.)
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24 Sept 2024
Episode 7: By what standard are you “spiritual”?
In this episode, we look at Colossians 2:16-23 and see how we can be deceived into thinking we are spiritual or godly through surface-level standards. A Christian often sets his eyes on accomplishments, abstinence, and spiritual experiences as a measurement for his spirituality or righteousness. This 29-minute episode explores examples a Christian is deceived in these areas and why these standards are “surface level.”
This is Part 1. Next episode, in Part 2, we will look at Colossians 3:1-4 and explore what true spirituality is.
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20 Sept 2024
Episode 6: A Hospital for Sinners
In this episode, we talk about the importance of our local church in restoring us when we fall into sin. The problem however, is when we struggle with repeated, dark sins, the last people to find out about our struggles is often our local church.
Why are we afraid to open up to them? Fear of judgment, misunderstanding, and condemnation fills up the list. Yet, God has made clear that your local church filled with His people, misfits they may be, is how He plans to restore you. Hope this discussion Galatians 6:1 will be helpful to some of you who may be in need of such restoration.
Note: For all English speakers and listeners, this podcast today is Tagalog-English. I apologize in advance.
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19 Sept 2024
Episode 5: God is Willing - Spiritual Growth for the Disheartened
Hello everyone! Welcome to Black Coffee, No Sugar Please! a podcast for Christian Young Adults dealing with no-sugarcoated topics on practical theology.I apologize for having been delayed in posting new content. For two reasons: 1. its difficult to setup interviews. It takes time. 2. its difficult to put up long content on a regular basis. However, I realize also that I can put in audio form all the articles I have written. I'll be reading out some of my blog posts so that you can have the option of listening to it instead of reading. This can be helpful for those of you who find it difficult to read long paragraphs!So this means, there will be some episodes that will be an audio version of my blog posts. My prayer is that the Lord will be gracious to use any of this at His disposal in ministering to brothers and sisters in Christ in the young adult stage of life. Have a good listen!
This audio blog is from: God is Willing: Spiritual Growth for the Disheartened (https://tituslaxajr.substack.com/p/god-is-willing-spiritual-growth-for)
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12 Aug 2024
Episode 4: Facing Dilemmas as a Christian School Teacher
In this episode, we finally caught up with Ms. Tin Olalde, long-time church member of Llano Christian Baptist Church, and a school teacher for the past 7 years!
In today’s pretend coffee session (we did not have any coffee during the recording, sorry Tin!), we talked about what it’s like to be a Christian and a school teacher in today’s day and age. She shares about the difficulty of making decisions and the challenges her job brings to her Christian faith and to her emotions. Most importantly, she shares how she navigates those challenges with God’s guidance.
If you are an aspiring teacher, or you have teachers in your church and you want to better understand their probable dilemmas, take a listen. A super long conversation for sure (we clocked at almost 30 mins, the longest episode to date)! Yet it is also a very jovial, insightful, and hopefully a fruitful one.
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2 Aug 2024
Episode 3: Tales from the High-Seas
What’s it like to work on a ship traveling around the world for more than 8 months? How does it feel like to be apart from families and friends, spiritual mentors and comfort zones? What does a Christian go through when he has no access to church on a weekly basis?
Take a listen to Gerald, as he shares how God has been good to him during his voyage around the world as a mariner. You will learn about the common misconceptions about being a seaman and how you as a Christian could pray for our seafarers who work hard bringing shipment and cargo across the seas.
You will be blessed.
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1 Jul 2024
Episode 2: Crossroads Para sa Mga Nag-a-Adulting
Hey saint! Ever find yourself wondering (with anxiety) if you have made the right decisions with regards to your career, your love-life, and your relationship with God? In this episode, we talk about the struggles of young adults being in the crossroads of their adulting journey. Our guest from Lucena, Meryl Villaruel, author of Your Safe Haven (https://www.ukiyotophilippines.com/product-page/your-safe-haven) and blogger (https://merrelya.com/), shares her ‘uuhs’ and ‘oohs’ of her crossroad moments, and how God has been so, so faithful to her in such moments.
A great and inspiring conversation with a great friend! Do listen in.
Btw, we recommend reading and subscribing to Meryl’s blog! Visit www.merrelya.com (http://www.merrelya.com) to see her latest writings!
You may also follow her on Tiktok (https://www.tiktok.com/@merrel.ya)and Instagram (https://www.instagram.com/merrel.ya_/)!
Oh, and checkout her book! Your Safe Haven (https://www.ukiyotophilippines.com/product-page/your-safe-haven)!
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25 Jun 2024
Episode 1: God's Providence for One's Love-Life
This pilot episode is for our young adult friends who are Christians, still single but desiring a life-partner, yet no prospect in the horizon. Together, me and Rezy explore how God providentially works through heartaches and faithfulness to bring about our unexpected love-life.
To the one or two listeners, enjoy!
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