To think and to be fully alive are the same.

Hannah Arendt

  • Why do we repeat Prayer?

    In the aftermath of my message yesterday, let me give a more extended answer to why we at times seem to have to repeat prayer for it to be answered. During our journey of maturing from a child of God (teknon) into sons and daughters (huios), we not only change our communication style, but our…

  • Prayer as a Means of Growth

    Today, I preached at the Genesis Gathering. Here is the script: We are in the fifth episode of a series called “How to Make Sense of Prayer” and I called it “Prayer as a means of growth”. Let’s go. Last time, your pastor talked to us about the different ways we can pray. On a…

  • Was the Cross inevitable?

    When we read John 13, there are two occasions that it mentions the devil taking over Judas’ mind or heart. And during supper, the devil having already put into the heart of Judas Iscariot, Simon’s son, to betray him. John 13:2 And after the sop, then entered Satan into him. Jesus therefore saith unto him,…

  • Unanswered Prayer

    Unanswered prayer is a subcategory of a much bigger question, namely why there is suffering in the world, the so-called theodicy. And theodicy is mainly a topic that flows from our image of God. We could therefore say that unanswered prayer is at the heart of theology. Let’s unravel this. You, and the whole church…

  • Open-ended

    What if God loves an open-ended adventure and has not planned out our lives? We love to say that God has a plan for our life. There is even a verse for this. ‘For I know what plans I have in mind for you,’ says ADONAI,’plans for well-being, not for bad things; so that you…

  • What happened in the Garden

    Do you know what it means to become self-aware? Can you remember the moment you first experienced yourself as the I and others as You? I doubt that you can. And frankly, even the people who took care of you back then cannot remember the moment this was the case. It was some time into…

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