Category: Contemplations

A while ago I received the following questions: Good questions that we cannot answer in one line and that people could literally study all their lives. We did not have that time to answer… Lees meer.

I was recently reading the story of those The Parable of the Ten Virgins again. Let’s first take that story and walk through it bit by bit. Because some things struck me… “At that… Lees meer.

Once you become a Christian and are saved by Christ, can you still lose your salvation? We answered that question more than clearly in part 1, but we are still not there yet. If… Lees meer.

Question: Jesus told me to love my neighbors as I love myself. But it is difficult to love them in life. How can I love them more? And should I love others while they… Lees meer.

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.