Author Ryan Nolz

A Virus Too Close

Social media blogs proliferate over the central issue of the pandemic nowadays. The dominant themes, among others, are blaming China where the virus came from, there is also the conspiracy theory of the virus as a bio-weapon, the blogs also… Continue Reading →

SE Asia’s new dancer

I wrote last week that sadly Filipino billionaires notably the Sy (SM brand)  family has their priorities wrong. They deploy their money  on quick-income generators like malls and condos. I guess they want ostentatious display of riches to make them… Continue Reading →

Trusting God: The Basic Metric of Life

When I was a teen, my mother Mercedes used to tell me, “Its either you trust God or you don’t.” Of course, she was right. I always kept it in my memory and stood on it.  However, in my 30’s… Continue Reading →

The Virtue of Forgiving

Forgive: it’s a tough act to do. We struggle with it. And the longer we suppress, it metamorphoses into something that further erodes our composure and then spirals into bitterness.  There are people in our life that classify into several types: … Continue Reading →

Life’s Clutter and His Grace

The last two weeks and towards the next, our church pastor, Jack Anthony Sheets,  at CityLine Church in Lakewood CA,  is preaching on the topic: Make Room, subtitled Quiet the noise, Clear the clutter, and Prepare for greater.  This is likewise the… Continue Reading →

Come, Take and Learn

Our FB friends?  We need them. People need to communicate, to chat, to text, to spread humor, to be uplifted, to be assured they are loved.  If I’m not mistaken the highest number of texting in a given day belongs… Continue Reading →

A River Like Life

Last Summer, my family and I took a repeat vacation in Grants Pass, Oregon to see the river again. The popular Rogue River traverses, among others, the towns of Grants Pass, Shady Cove and Rogue River.   We stayed in my… Continue Reading →

Faith, Hope and Love: Apex of Christian Values

The great Teacher once wrote in Ecclesiastes that all things here are meaningless, a chasing after the wind.   Paul listed not-so-ordinary things that extol a man by his works, such as gift of prophecy and knowledge, giving all of one’s… Continue Reading →

In the Garden of Pain, Two Choices

I sat there, it was not even a bench, on the edge of the concrete and metal fence surrounding the garden, my face pressed between two metal poles of the hedges.  Lots of old olive trees permeate it.  Not sure… Continue Reading →

An Olive Leaf of Hope: My Holy Land Experience

Holy Land, yes it is apt to call it Holy. Although each segment of the population, notably in its chief city of Jerusalem, claims a brand of holiness according to each own perspective. And you have Jews, Arabs, Christians, and… Continue Reading →

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