Found & Crowned

In this episode I share how I view God and the world. I’ve been studying the scriptures for 5 years and sometimes the Word gets confusing and we don’t always apply what we read but with this framework, I remember God especially in times when the world drowns Him out.

Many people assume I’m suffering because I’m recovering from a kidney transplant but the truth is, this season doesn’t even rank in the top ten hardest moments of my life. What’s been more revealing is how people respond to perceived suffering, and how assumptions often say more about the observer than the one enduring pain.

In this episode, I reflect on loving difficult people, speaking truth in love, and confronting our own pride, insecurity, and old nature. Drawing from Scripture, my prison testimony, and the Serenity Prayer, I explore how God uses suffering to strip away false comforts and reveal what we truly need—not just what we want.

This is a conversation about faith, perseverance, surrender, and healing learning to live free from bitterness and to love as Jesus loved us, even when it’s uncomfortable.

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The Prison Psalms Daily Devotionals for more Devos like this.

In this episode, I share how my understanding of truth, faith, and people has expanded over the past year. Loving God is clear but loving others, especially when they disappoint or don’t share the same vision, is much harder.

Fresh off a kidney transplant and forced into stillness, I reflect on endurance, healing, and trusting God when the process feels slow, boring, or painful. Drawing from Isaiah 7:9, I explore what it means to have an enduring faith one that keeps believing even when the future isn’t visible and some dreams must die.

If you’re feeling discouraged, unmotivated, or tempted to quit, this is a reminder: your story isn’t over because you fell. It’s only over if you refuse to rise.

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Waking up after a kidney transplant, lying in a hospital bed again, I was reminded of prison but this time, I chose the pain.

Two years after my release, I reflect on why I still believe people can change, and how choosing character, integrity, and faith can transform a life and a nation.

In this episode, we dive deep into John 1 and the radical way Jesus calls ordinary people into extraordinary purpose.

The first disciples weren’t powerful, polished, or prestigious, they were fishermen, common laborers, and overlooked people waiting for hope. Yet Jesus called them anyway. Not because of performance, potential metrics, or spiritual résumé but because He qualifies those He calls.

We explore:

• Why Jesus changes identity before behavior

• What it means that Simon was called “Peter” before he ever preached

• How this dismantles performance-based discipleship

• The difference between religion that looks good and faith that actually transforms

• Why real Christianity isn’t comfortable, trendy, or crowd-approved—but deeply radical and costly

This conversation also wrestles with modern Christian judgment, public professions of faith, grace versus condemnation, and why rejoicing over repentance matters more than protecting our own self-righteousness.

If you’ve ever felt disqualified by your past, stuck in religious routines without real change, or unsure whether God could truly use your life—this episode is an invitation.

Jesus doesn’t call the impressive.
He calls the willing.
And He never leaves them the same.

Christmas isn’t just about warmth, nostalgia, or tradition—it’s about the Light entering a dark world.

In this episode of Found & Crowned, we continue our journey through John 1, unpacking what it truly means when Scripture says Jesus is “the true light that gives light to everyone.” We reflect on Christmas stories—joyful, lonely, awkward, painful—and ask the deeper question: Do we actually know who Jesus is, or have we settled for a comfortable version of Him?

We talk about:

• Why John the Baptist mattered—and why he wasn’t the light

• What it means to be signposts pointing to Jesus

• How the Light of Christ exposes, heals, and transforms

• The difference between believing in God and knowing Jesus

• Why following Jesus doesn’t make life easier—but makes it truer

• Faith, success, sacrifice, and the danger of a comfortable Christianity

We also reflect on The Chosen, modern spirituality, hardened hearts, and why so many people—believers and non-believers alike—still feel empty even when life looks “successful.”

This episode is an invitation:
Not to perform faith.
Not to sanitize Jesus.
But to come close enough to the Light to let it reveal what needs healing.

Whether Christmas was joyful or lonely for you, you’re welcome here.

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Jesus is the reason—and the Light—of this season.

Most people love God.
Few actually know Jesus.

That’s why we’re starting at the beginning.
📖 John 1
✝️ The Word made flesh
💡 Light that darkness cannot overcome

This is your reminder:
You don’t find life by looking inward—
you find it by looking at Him.

In this raw and real conversation, Jerica and Jaira, the Prodigal Daughters, sit down on a quiet island after attending Presence, a two-day transformational seminar that reopened old lessons, challenged their comfort zones, and exposed the difference between average thinking and excellent thinking.

They unpack:

• What “excellent thinking” actually looks like

• How small compromises create bigger problems in our lives and communities

• The Filipino habit of “bahala na” and how it shapes systems, culture, and our personal standards

• Parenting, leadership, and how excellence starts in the home

• The 4 R’s—Recognize, Release, Reframe, Rebuild—and how they help heal resentment

• Jaira’s honest reflections on breakup pain, betrayal, and learning to feel safe again

• Why personal development can help you…but why true transformation only sticks when Jesus fills the gaps

• How to integrate change daily instead of becoming a “seminar addict” with no real growth

This episode gets vulnerable about motherhood, heartbreak, resentment, cultural patterns, and the lifelong work of becoming the women God created them to be. If you're rebuilding your life, healing from your past, or trying to raise your standards, this will speak to you.

I was ranting in the beginning... but we chose to uncover the truth rather than hide it.

Why is it easier to love friends than our own parents? In this honest episode, we unpack triggers, boundaries, shallow family ties, and what it means to build a real relationship with the people who raised us.

The Philippines isn’t breaking.

It’s revealing what we’ve ignored for generations.

Rallies. Corruption. Flood projects that never end.
And we act shocked — like we didn’t see this coming.

Here’s the truth nobody wants to say out loud:

The nation rots when the home rots first.
And that’s the wound we keep refusing to open.

Because if Jesus walked into the Philippines today…
most of us wouldn’t recognize Him.

He wouldn’t be onstage with a spotlight.
He’d be the OFW stepping off a plane, exhausted but faithful.
He’d be the construction worker sharing a P50 lunch with his brothers.
He’d be the quiet man calling people back to a kingdom we keep forgetting.

And we’d walk past Him…
because we’re too busy blaming the government for problems we created in our own houses.