Healing and Word-faith (1)

31May08

In my last blog I mentioned a few topics I was thinking about. One of the things was the serious illness of a friend and what to think about healing.
This is a topic that I want to explore in some more detail. I know that many books have been written from several points of view, [...]

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(Out of) (Too much) Inspiration

29May08

Lately I haven’t written any blogpiece.
It started first with me being too exhausted and busy to write. And partly because of that I had no inspiration.
Currently I have another problem: I have too much inspiration. There’s so much going on around me and so many objects that come to mind, that I don’t know where [...]

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Tags: busy, mind

Was Jesus rich?

17May08

Some time ago I heard an American preacher, well-known for his prosperity teachings, say that Jesus was surely very rich!! His argument was that it would have been impossible to keep the twelve disciples with him day and night, feed them, clothe them etc. And then all the other people that were constantly around Him!
I [...]

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Tags: Jesus, Jesus Creed, money, Scot McKnight

Sunday school

14May08

<Laugh alert>
Check this link for some wise things kids have learned in sunday school:
http://benwitherington.blogspot.com/2008/05/sunday-school-wisdom.html.

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Spirit and fruit

12May08

Today is Whit Monday. On Whit we celebrate the outpouring of the Holy Spirit on Jesus´ disciples.
One of the best known text about the Holy Spirit is undoubtedly Galatians 5:22: But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, meekness, self-control.
 Sometimes when this Bible verse is being preached about, people tend [...]

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Tags: Fruit, Holy Spirit, Whit

Tim Keller@Google

07May08

Below a video of Tim Keller, who wrote the book “The reason for God”. He gave a speech at Google (the company). Here’s what he said, but beware; it’s very long. At the end is a Q&A session.

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Tags: Google, Reason for God, Tim Keller

Contradictio in terminis

06May08

Heard from Shane Claiborne:
A megachurch with small groups……

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Tags: contradictio, megachurch, small groups

Two quotes from the Jesus Creed

04May08

Today I read a great quote in the book “40 days Living the Jesus Creed”. The quote is from a woman named Roberta Bondi. She says that “only as we learn to love God and other do we gain the real freedom and autonomy in a society in which most people live in a state [...]

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Tags: Jesus Creed