The Challenge of the Church in the 21st Century
Our action reflects our vision. Our vision reflects our view of God. In a migrating, multicultural, innovative, fast-changing, urbanized, global environment where the world is facing never seen mega problems, the church is a static,
Sometimes I don’t understand God
Jesus answered him, “What I am doing you do not understand now, but afterward you will understand.” Peter said to him, “You shall never wash my feet.” Jesus answered him, “If I do not wash
The Danger of Walking with Jesus
Jesus’s disciples very soon discovered how uncomfortable and even dangerous can it be to walk with him. Jesus is asking frightening questions and proposes embarrassing challenges. Like he did at the Feeding the Five Thousand: “Where are we
Do you want to get well?
“Do you want to be healed?” – asks Jesus from the invalid. John 5:6 We are sick! We are all lames. Many of us don’t even recognize that we are lames. The worst kind of sickness
Faith – Risk – Pain – Betrayal
When the Son of Man returns, will he find faith on earth? – Luke 18:8 Faith is taking risks. Faith is saying ‘yes’ to do the impossible with the nothing you have, just because your
The Struggling Church of Europe
The Church in Europe struggles for survival – there are ample evidences of that. Europeans are the most secularized people-group in the history of mankind living on the least evangelized Continent of the World. The reasons are
The value determines the price
30 years ago I was a part of a group of young, enthusiastic believers. We hoped and prayed to change the World. Instead, most of the members of that group had been changed by the
When we don’t understand God…
“Christ didn’t come to the world so that we could decipher him but that we could hold onto him…” / Dietrich Bonhoeffer / A few weeks ago a family we love lost a son in