Category: Kingdom

  • Apostolic Teams

    Team. Does it mean Toronto, Edmonton, Amos, Marathon? Or is it an acronym from Swiss German for “Toll, en andere machts”, meaning “great, somebody else does it”? The first cannot be true, as my friends in Canada will certainly see on first glance: the definition leaves out British Columbia all together. And, on a minor…

  • Rest and Worship

    I found this wonderful translation of Psalms 65:1 in a German Bible: Bei dir zur Ruhe kommen – damit preist man dich, du Gott, der auf dem Berg Zion wohnt. (Ps 65:2 NGÜ) Are you as excited as I am? Well, probably not quite yet. So let me give you a translation: To find rest…

  • Community versus Individuality

    Then how is it, brothers? When you come together, each one of you has a psalm, has a teaching, has a tongue, has a revelation, has an interpretation. Let all things be for building up. 1Co 14:26 In the medieval ages, belonging to the church was what it needed to be saved. To this day…

  • Stewardship – Becoming a Disciple

    Becoming a disciple has many facets. One way to look at it surely is to be a good steward. Usually good stewardship is viewed as a responsible handling of money and time as well as lifestyle. I came to believe that it also includes knowing your master very well. If you want to be a Christian,…

  • God of Wonders

    God of wonders. That is how God introduces himself in the first place. This is how he begins it all: creating the world in 6 days. Wondrous enough for man to come up with many different ideas on what that account might mean and how to interpret it, even leave God out of the picture…

  • Faith and Expectation

    Quantum physics states that a subatomic particle at a certain time has no state, but contains all states with certain probabilities. Only when observed a particle falls into a certain state. Which state depends upon the expectation of the observer as well as the measurement method. Will it be a wave or a particle? New…