Category: Contemplations

Whoever comes to church hears the word “grace” a lot. That word “grace” falls under the “church language” for me. In other words, words that you do hear in church, but never or seldom… Lees meer.

Today we had our weekly Bible study group and the “homework” for this time was: “bring a Bible verse that you will take with you into 2024 as a guideline for you, for this… Lees meer.

Anyone who walks around in any church knows this text: Sounds hopeful! You see it on tiles, bumper stickers, it is given at baptisms, marriages, you name it. Very famous. But…. There’s just something… Lees meer.

This year is almost over. And maybe it wasn’t an easy year for you…maybe it was hard… very hard indeed…. This week I came across a song from my “young adulthood” age. This song’s… Lees meer.

An old Dutch proverb says: “Pray and work”. The funny thing is that it looks like a Bible verse, but it is not directly. But there is something in it… This week, we were… Lees meer.

So often we hear… “Yes, but the Bible says…. a, b, c”….. And then we hear a Bible verse… which seems to be correct, but in the context is completely taken out of context…… Lees meer.

Many conversations we have are with people from other time zones. We have discovered that we have the “best” conversations in the morning… why? If you look at the topics of the conversations (humanly… Lees meer.

Today we had a conversation with K. He wanted to get closer to God, but that didn’t work out. And that really frustrated him. After talking for a while, a few things stood out…… Lees meer.

We often cannot tell you much about the conversations we have with people, (they are privacy-sensitive, and we cannot and do not want to share them just like that), but through this bible verse… Lees meer.

I recently had a conversation with X who never went to church anymore. He used to go, but not recently, not for a long time, to be honest. His reasoning was: There are no… Lees meer.