Category: Contemplations

Something we hear quite often in our daily practice is: I’ve prayed so much, but I never get an answer. Its superlative is: I stopped praying because I never got an answer anyway. And… Lees meer.

Pray or Give Thanks? What are we doing? In part one, we talked about prayer that doesn’t lead to anything. Quite a tough topic, but while we’re on the subject of prayer… let’s go… Lees meer.

Wow! That’s a tough opening! Stop praying????? Say what?! Well, we have your attention, so that worked! Well, we want to talk with you about prayer… there is an elephant in the room…. and… Lees meer.

Anyone who has ever looked into the Bible will know the Bible books of Romans, Corinthians, Galatians, Ephesians, Philippians, Colossians and, for example, Thessalonians. Have you ever considered that these were not originally Bible… Lees meer.

Imagine… you work hard every day… for a good cause…. And sometimes you feel like it doesn’t work…. Nothing seems to work. That’s pretty frustrating. We know the feeling. Let’s give you some encouragement….… Lees meer.

huh? Thats a strange title. That’s right because not one Bible text is wrong. But…. as long as you read it in the right context… and not just take one text out of context… Lees meer.

A story about a croquette sandwich and more. Well, reading the bible is sometimes not too easy, but what about this verse: Consider it pure joy, my brothers, when you encounter trials of many… Lees meer.

This week we had a conversation with N. N is not doing very well, and he wondered if God was punishing him for something from the past. He doubted enormously, it was really a… Lees meer.

Today I had a conversation with X. He had lost everything… really everything. Not through his own doing, but because someone did it to him. He is a victim. He lost his home, no… Lees meer.

In the series “what questions do we often get” we now come to the next question that we really get very often. This time it was from C from A: I’ve asked God so… Lees meer.