building a community of grace
--- Midweek Meditations:thoughts, inspiration and encouragementfrom ACF community members --- "And the angel said to them, ‘Fear not, for behold, I bring you good news of great joy that will be for all the people. For unto you is born this day in the city of David a Saviour, who is Christ the Lord.’”Luke 2:10-11... Continue Reading →
--- Midweek Meditations:thoughts, inspiration and encouragementfrom ACF community members --- Each year we contemplate the Nativity scene: clean, orderly figures, illuminated by a warm light that conveys peace. And without realizing it, we have completely transformed the scandal of Jesus’ birth. We have made it romantic. We have decorated it. We have turned it into... Continue Reading →
--- Midweek Meditations:thoughts, inspiration and encouragementfrom ACF community members --- November, with the appropriate mixture of rain, cold, grouch, and people in the streets wheezing and coughing. Also the month that starts with All Saints (Allerheiligen) and All Souls Day (Allerseelen), followed, at least in my home region in the Lower Rhine, by “Allerhubert” on... Continue Reading →
--- Midweek Meditations:thoughts, inspiration and encouragementfrom ACF community members --- It was one of my first gifts for my wife Lauren. I had drawn it after a picture of a small wooden sculpture of a child faithfully resting in a big hand. I wanted to share with Lauren this beautiful image of complete trust, no... Continue Reading →
--- Midweek Meditations:thoughts, inspiration and encouragementfrom ACF community members --- Last year I received a few posts on social media of a guy named James Partridge, a music teacher. What started out as a family in-joke really took off for him during the COVID-19 lockdown. While teaching online, a friend suggested he try TikTok, and... Continue Reading →
--- Midweek Meditations:thoughts, inspiration and encouragementfrom ACF community members --- One of the most confusing things I encountered 40 years ago when I moved to Germany were all the different church holidays. The big ones , Christmas and Easter I knew and some others like Ascension and Pentecost were easy to understand. The two holidays... Continue Reading →
--- Midweek Meditations:thoughts, inspiration and encouragementfrom ACF community members --- The feeling of being home versus being a visitor. Have you ever walked into a room and instantly felt like “I am home, i am where i belong”. The other day, in my Religion Course, the question “what does the church mean to me?” was... Continue Reading →
--- Midweek Meditations:thoughts, inspiration and encouragementfrom ACF community members --- In recent days, when I was discouraged about possibly losing a job which I love, my circumstances were put into perspective in the form of a visit from a family friend from Jerusalem. This Israeli medical doctor updated us about all the collective trauma going... Continue Reading →
--- Midweek Meditations:thoughts, inspiration and encouragementfrom ACF community members --- In my youth group at the Protestant church in Waldkirch, we looked at this book and read several stories from it: ICONS – Heroes of Faith from the Bible and Today, published by Herder. It mainly deals with lesser-known stories but also includes some better-known... Continue Reading →
--- Midweek Meditations:thoughts, inspiration and encouragementfrom ACF community members --- Now that I am retired, I am often away traveling. To visit our son and his family in Cologne, to travel to the US, on holiday. Recently I was en route to the US for the wedding of a cousin (first wedding...at 74!). My trip... Continue Reading →
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