Category: Contemplations

This week, I came across a song in a movie with the title: The Suicide Squad. Wow! The title of the movie alone is enough to give you the creeps. That film contained a… Lees meer.

Today I had a conversation with X. He has been ill for a long time and will never be able to recover from the illness he has. X is a Christian (check, check, double… Lees meer.

When I hear sayings like, “”What doesn’t kill you makes you stronger.” (which sound good), I always get the creeps. They fall into my list of: It all sounds hopeful, it also gives people… Lees meer.

With every job we take on, we ask ourselves: are we the correct tool for this job? If the answer is “yes”, then we move on to the next question: Do we also have… Lees meer.

Today I had a tough conversation with X. He wasn’t doing well, and he wondered why God wasn’t helping him with everything. When I asked who God was to him during this difficult time,… Lees meer.

Sometimes you get “those” theological questions… whew. Also, many of those questions do not necessarily come from people who grew up in a church, on the contrary. So you have to adapt your language… Lees meer.

I spoke to someone today who was looking for another job. God had given him this job a few years ago, a great job, he liked it, but now he wanted something else that… Lees meer.

A recurring theme is: we feel that we still have so much to do! So much misery on the globe, so many people in need and I would like to help them all(!). But… Lees meer.

Today is All Saints’ Day and All Souls’ Day is tomorrow. And there is “something” with those days…. We asked a number of people on the street what is celebrated. The first thing that… Lees meer.

A question that periodically arises is whether we are living in the “end times”. ~End Times: The end times, the end of times, the last days are a representation of the final time period… Lees meer.