Hang on to your magic carpet!

Serkan was a magic carpet rider. He came from a long family line of magic carpet riders; and as such he was respected and well known.
One day he was travelling from his hometown to the near-by mountain range, in order to milk the goats and feed the flock. As he surveyed the rugged and sandy [...]

More puppies than one can handle …

Sitting at various places today: inside, outside, plastic chairs, wodden chairs, benches, i spoke with my new pastor about theology and the faithfulness of God.
To illustrate: he spoke about how once, while staying the concrete jungle, he so longed to hold a puppy in his hand, to bring back memories of more “natured” days. Being [...]

Christ is deeper still!

An absolute must read!

Test #1: Are you pursuing fellowship with God and other believers?

Are you walking in the light or are you walking in the dark? This set of entries will ask these questions of you and will supply you 3 tests from 1 John 1, in order that you may find out where you are walking.

One Spirit, One baptism

I recently did some study on the ‘baptism of the Holy Spirit’ and was quite challenged by the emphasis on UNITY that seemed so prevalent. I though it was somewhat ironic since the Holy Spirit is often a more divisive topic than unifying topic in current ‘Christianity’. What follows below is a part of my [...]

Dear friend, how is your dying?

How do you live a life that is full and without regret? How do you encourage a man who is facing death? How do you become more content and cheerful in Christ?

Flying lesson

“but they who wait for the LORD shall renew their strength; they shall mount up with wings like eagles; they shall run and not be weary; they shall walk and not faint.”

(Isa 40:31)
 
When you read things like this, i wonder what you think about. Do you think success in life? Do you think money raining [...]

A reason for truth being written, not experienced

Sunday morning at church i got to speak to dear brother of ours who was diagnosed with cancer, some time ago. This brother was speaking about how his experience was of late. He had gone through a number of chemotherapies, and related to us the effects that has on one’s mind and body. Frightening really. [...]

The Amazing Graciousness of Grace

My pastor and friend Josh sent me this quote this morning. I was so encouraged by it that i decided to share it with you. We will have a series around that very topic soon. I am so excited!
“How can we recover the new affection for Christ and his kingdom that so powerfully impacted our [...]

Strange encouragement …

This will (again) be a reflection on something that Piper wrote in his excellent book “Taste and See”. The piece is about meditations on Hebrews 10:14:
“For by one offering He has perfected for all time those who are being sanctified”
John Piper was speaking about the seeming contradiction of having been perfected/sanctified and yet still having [...]