Archive for October, 2008

Quote

30Oct08

Here’s a great truth written down by Henri Nouwen:
“When we honestly ask ourselves which person in our lives means the most to us, we often find that it is those who, instead of giving advice, solutions, or cures, have chosen rather to share our pain and touch our wounds with a warm and tender hand. [...]


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The Bible for lazy people

25Oct08

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Where is the emphasis on?

24Oct08

Since a few weeks I read the blog “Messianic Jewish Musings“. It’s a very interesting blog where a Jew who believes in the Messiah writes about all kinds of things from the perspective of a Messianic Jew.
The past week was Sukkot followed by Simkhat Torah. Derek Leman, the writer of the blog, describes what happens [...]


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Quote

22Oct08

“I believe in Christianity as I believe that the sun has risen, not only because I see it, but because by it I see everything else.” – C.S. Lewis
(HT: John Tuohy - http://www.atu2.com/news/article.src?ID=5108)


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Yesterday in Hoofddorp

13Oct08

This Sunday morning I was in church. I will not lightly forget the service. It made an incredible impression on me.
This week one of the church-members, a 17 year-old boy, died after a terrible trafic incident. During the service our reverent told about the incident and spoke about how we sometimes can’t understand what’s happening [...]


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What’s going on?

11Oct08

Marvin Gaye already asked this question. In my last post I mentioned that a lot of things were going on in my (our, my wife’s and my) life. We are stepping out of our safe circle! In february my wife Mattanja and I together, will go to New Zealand for two weeks. The goal of [...]


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This is my passion

09Oct08

… is the start of a sentence out of a song by Margaret Becker. “This is my passion, holiness, holiness. This is my cry, mercy, mercy!” It has nothing to do with what I want to say in this post, but I just thought about it while writing the title of this post.
Yesterday I listened [...]


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Great Vintage Gospel

04Oct08

The movie below is a big hit on YouTube. It will make you laugh! If you think it’s fake, checkout this blogpost where the original members are interviewed: http://dougsploitation.blogspot.com/2008/09/dougsploitation-news-exclusive-sal-of.html
Sonseed:

Worship singer David Crowder has covered the song in his church:


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