Men & Crocodiles
Here’s a great quote from Max Lucado:
“A man would rather floss a crocodile than ask for direction”.
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Sad, sad, sad
A lot has been said and especially written the past couple days on the announcement of the separation of Todd Bentley and his wife Shonna. Just as the reactions on the Lakeland Outpouring have differred between “Halleluja, this is God’s work!!” and “Bentley is the anti-christ”, the reactions differ on this topic in the same way.
I think a lot can be said about why and how this could have happened. But I don’t think anything I say will contribute to the situation. Off course I have an opinion on this, but since I don’t know all the facts, my opinion seems to change back and forth when looking at it from different sides.
The sad thing about all this is that whenever such a thing happens, we as christians are immediately ready to give our opinion, and it is sometimes (or should I say most of the time?) not very flattering. We seem to forget that all of us make mistakes (or, sins). But since Todd Bentley is a prominent figure, his mistake is all over the news as if World War III has started. This depicts the hype-culture that we as christians live in. In stead of us being known for our love among ourselves, we are known for fighting each other and calling each other names.
It is very sad that this has happened between Todd and Shonna Bentley and I truly hope that they will come back together, but only if they take the time for healing and restoration of their relationship. And to my fellow brothers and sisters I would like to say: check your own life, and see if there is something left with which you have to come to terms. Let all of us make serious business, not by sweeping our dirt under the carpet, but by looking our “demons” in the eye and getting rid of them.
God bless.
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Loyalty and faithfulness
Here’s a great piece of wisdom from Proverbs: “Never let go of loyalty and faithfulness. Tie them around your neck; write them on your heart. If you do this, both God and people will be pleased with you.” (Proverbs 3:3-4 (GNB))
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Nostalgia
This was my favourite band in my youth. This is an incredible medley of old Petra songs, played in an acoustic setting. Sit back and enjoy!!
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… and I’m back!
Hello world! Here I am again!! I’m back from a three-week holiday. I am totally refreshed and have found new inspiration for blogging.
During my holiday I have thought about where to go with this weblog. The name of the weblog is “David’s Daily Dosage”. This indicates that I want to blog daily. In the past months this has never occurred, due to several reasons. The other reason why I have chosen the name Daily Dosage is because I daily need a dosage of Gods grace, which I am constantly seeking and learning about.
But let me go back to the first reason for naming it the “Daily Dosage”. The past months of running this weblog have taught me that it’s impossible for me to daily write an extensive blog. Therefore I decided to post short blogs daily (or almost daily) and just once or a few times a week (depending) on my schedule) write a more extensive post.
I have some more ideas about this weblog, but since I don’t want to make promises that I can’t keep, I won’t mention those. I hope that you, dear readers, will continue to visit this weblog and enjoy the things that i write.
Please feel free to comment!!
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Happy holidays
The coming few weeks I will be on holidays. So no blogs will come from my keyboard. After my holidays, I will resume blogging full flesh!
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Small thought
This 
is an impressive quote by the Danish filosopher Sören Kierkegaard from his diary: “What is important is to understand my destination. To come to know what God wants me to do; it comes out to finding the truth, which is true for me; to find the idea for which I am prepared to live and to die.”
For me that truth is God.
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Forgiveness
Here’s a great quote from theologian Robert Capon (thanks to Internetmonk):
(…) confession is not a pre-condition of forgiveness. It’s something that you do after you know you have been forgiven. Confession is not something you do in order to get forgiveness. It’s something you do in order to celebrate the forgiveness you got for nothing. Nobody [nodbody] can earn forgiveness.” -Robert Capon, “The Father Who Lost Two Sons”
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Walking Like Moses
In the Netherlands we have a special tradition: “Avondvierdaagse”. During the Avondvierdaagse we walk a number of kilometres with a large group of people who all live in the same town. This is mostly done by schools. One can choose for a number of kilometres, in our town varying from 3 to 10 kilometres a day.
This year we participated for the first time, with our two oldest kids. We choose 5 kilometres, so for 4 days in a row we walked 5 kilometres a day!! Now normally that isn’t too hard. In a normal speed 5 kilometres will take an adult approximately 1 hour (or less).
In this setting however, it was a whole different ballgame!! We walked in a long row, with adults and children all walking together. And not only did we walk together, but there was a lot of talking going on!! And especially the kids (all kids, not only mine!) were screaming out of enthusiasm, running around and playing games.
During one of the nights it felt like Moses and the people of Israel through the desert. That must have been some event, all those people and the kids running through the crowd. The sound must have been audible from a mile’s distance (or more)!
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Healing….. and dying (3)
I haven’t been saying much in the blogosphere the past 2 weeks. This is mostly due to what’s been going on around the severe illness of my fellow-church member that I was writing about previously.
One-and-a-half weeks ago I received an email announcing his passing-away. Although I was sort of expecting an announcement any day, I was still flabbergasted. So God didn’t heal him? Why? What’s going to happen with his kids and his wife? Why? Why? WHy? WHY?????
Last Tuesday was the memorial service. I really had to get myself together and push myself to go, because I so much dreaded to go. The service itself was even worse than I thought. It was a fabulous service, but the emotions were almost too much for me. Even when writing this, I feel tears coming to my eyes. During the service I went from sadness to anger to joy and back to sadness.
These emotions made it impossible for me to write. I didn’t know how to put my emotions to words. Even now I feel it’s hard to write a good piece of text. Apparently the emotions are still just a little bit beneath the surface.
On the other hand, our pastor preached a very encouraging and balanced sermon on healing. I would like to come back to this sermon, my thoughts and emotions and also other thoughts on healing.
More to come!
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