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 [...]

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. [...]

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 [...]

Musings on the N1, #1

This morning i read in John Piper’s devotional book “Taste and See” about the two sides of God, namely Love and … well Him being God. He speaks there about the problem that often we want one but leave the other, or, that we are out of balance, leaning towards one side.
It got me thinking [...]

fundamentally fundamental, or fundamentally accurate?

This is a question on my mind. In the past few weeks i got think a lot about what it really means to be a Christian. What set this all off was a spiritual hole i was in and got to contemplate about mediocrity and how easily we as ‘Christians’ settle for that.
“I just want [...]

is this an attempt???

someone might ask themselves if this is a weak attempt to get blogspotted by a pyro. the answer is ‘not anymore’.
the reason for cross-posting this is simply that this post really spoke to me this morning. i am convinced that many more poeple than we can think struggle with this. i hope and pray that [...]