Silent Time

Are you sometimes sad about how people behave? It can be especially disappointing if beloved people like family members ruin their lives, such as teenagers and young adults taking wrong decisions that ruin their health, their career, their lives, destructive decisions that they will regret later on. People of all times got sad when seeing the destructive behaviour of others. We can learn from thos...

Some people easily get our attention and they might fascinate us with their rhetoric or visions. But let’s be careful not to follow the wrong persons and ideas. In order to distinguish, it is good to ask “what are his motivations?” and “what are her targets?”.

Is it possible to cheer up a person, who bears a lot of sorrow in mind? What is the major factor, whether the good intentions to help will succeed or not?

To what do you give the highest priority in your life?

Which logic do you follow in life? Do you still only try to maximize your own benefit as most people do? Or have you already understood that there is more to life than that?

Who is Jesus? What would you say? Some say he started a religion, others say he gave good moral teachings, others say he was a prophet. When we do not know for sure, let's turn to the most original sources.  The results are amazing.

Which sports are you interested in? Similar to the full concentration in many other sports, as far as the discipline of running concerns, the runners run fully concentrated straight towards the target. How disappointing it is, if someone in the middle of the race suddenly gives up. To give up is bad enough in sports, and even worse if someone gives up in life.

Do you also wait? That question might be asked at the bus stop or when queuing up in a line. Do you also wait? That question can also be asked in a much more significant regard!

What comes to your mind with regard to the words “cooperation” and “partnership”? There are many kinds of cooperation between individual persons, in private and in public, on government level and so on. Often good things come out, when people cooperate. In spiritual terms there is a different kind of cooperation, that all those have experienced who have walked closely with the Lord over the centur...

How do you see the world? As most of things going on well and tendencies in the right direction? Or more a pessimistic view considering all the deficiencies in the societies, with major factors in the world deteriorating? Whatever is going on, one thing is clear: we need help. And even if there are a lot deficiencies in many regards, there is still a true hope for the future.

One of the most common way that people are challenged and get doubts in their faith is by bad things happening. For example if a family looses a relative, a beloved person who even might still have been young, then naturally we are tempted to ask “why did God allow that to happen?” And then the devil easily can send negative thoughts and doubts that lead us away from God. The devil even tried to t...

Are you joyful or sad? So many times, the devil tries to make us sad, either by filling us with pride and arrogance that we think we do not need God and walk away from him. Or by the opposite way: the devil tries to tell us another lie “you are too bad, you have done too much wrong” and then again we may feel condemned and not turn to God. Both ways will make us sad and will lead us away from God....

Opposite to the obvious. Often opposite to the logics that we are used to. And yet perfectly makes sense and answers many questions that people puzzle about.

Have you only heard of the word of God? Or have you really experienced the life that the good news offers, the personal relationship with the Lord, his love, power and guidance?

As humans we tend to categorize and judge others by outward appearances and behaviours, by what people look like, by what they say and how they behave. Praise the Lord if you live in a place of relative freedom, in a country of democracy having a fair legal system that will judge those who do criminal things and a system that lets those live freely that have not done anything wrong. While human sy...

How would you react if you request something and seemingly get a harsh reply? How would you react if you requested something from the Lord in prayer and you do not get any word of comfort and rather only a short reply such as “go”? How we react to the word of God is of essence. The official by the time of Jesus had requested Jesus to come along with him in order to heal his son, but the reply was...

There are so many reasons to give up in life, so much suffering, work and tasks to be done and so little time per week to accomplish all. Additionally as a believer you may experience persecution and trouble. There are so many reasons to give up, but there is one reason not to give up. The great hope is bigger than any trouble we experience. It is not just a vague hope, rather it is confirmed by t...

Shall we always respect the authorities? It is a good practice and required for good order. But are there any circumstances under which conditions exceptions should be made? What would you say?

What are the major findings that you discover, when you study the word of God, when you read the bible and Christian books or listen to sermons? What is the core message for you? What are the criteria to find out whether a preacher is fully in line with the word of God? Just historical facts or only useful guidelines? There is much more to it: We can find real comfort, a fulfilled life and true ho...

What are the most important things for you in life? Since God has already shown that he has the best intentions for us and a good long term plan for our life, and since he has won the decisive victory on the cross, so we do not need to doubt: his mercy is surely available for us, even if our life goes through a lot of difficulties and challenges, even if we loose everything in this life, we still...

Thomas – called the twin – did not believe the words of the other disciples when they reported that they had seen the risen Lord. Blessed are those who do not see yet and already believe the good news of God’s grace.

Even a minor wrongdoing cannot enter the kingdom of God. No human individual is perfect. So the question is: Do you receive God’s grace and forgiveness? Or not? No matter how much wrong we have done or failed to do, God’s grace is bigger than our wrongdoing and his mercy is available to everyone who humbly turns to him.

Who belongs to the Lord? It sounds as a minor or even irrelevant side note. Yet it is so important: The one who belongs to God, listens to God’s word.

Have you also experienced situations in which a group of people thinks they are better than others? There are different talents that the Lord has given, but no one shall look down on others, neither as individuals nor as societies nor as religious groups. There is one hope, one Lord, one faith, one baptism. We all share the same bible, whether it is an older or newer translation. We have the same...

Good stewards of the good news: how can we recognize whether someone preaches and acts to the will of God? That person will take the great shepherd Jesus as an example and will not only pick out certain aspects of religion, rather will cover the entire gospel as we can find it in the bible. Such a good steward will proclaim apart from reminders to the commands of God also the good news of the Lord...