building a community of grace
--- Midweek Meditations:thoughts, inspiration and encouragementfrom ACF community members --- I make –many times- strong comments… for example, I do believe that all current challenges in the world, have their main cause in the selfishness of us as human beings: … wars… corruption… pandemics…are often caused by leaders interested in power, to satisfy themselves. But... Continue Reading →
--- Midweek Meditations:thoughts, inspiration and encouragementfrom ACF community members --- . 14th of AugustIt would be six years.Six years after she crossed the river to the shore beyond.My Mom…… She was born in a very remote village to ordinary peasants.With no means to go to school she went to the woods to work.Until the pastor... Continue Reading →
--- Midweek Meditations:thoughts, inspiration and encouragementfrom ACF community members --- Soccer football season is on again! Until May next year, when Bayern München will have garnered their umpteenth championship in a row, a lot of otherwise relatively sane people will turn into glassy-eyed, sports-hero-worshipping fans every weekend. I wonder if they will notice that their... Continue Reading →
Homily - Sunday, the 7th August 2022 Reading: Isaiah 1:10-20 Have you imagined being invited for a meal with the Queen of England or some dignitary of that stature? What preparations do we make? What protocols do we study? What kind of presentability would we look at? What etiquettes of language and behaviour would we... Continue Reading →
Let no one despise your youth, but set an example for the believers in speech, in conduct, in love, in faith, in purity.1 Timothy 4:12 Where actually are our young people? I look for them around in the city of Freiburg and lo and behold- they are everywhere. This city is full of young people.... Continue Reading →
Homily - Sunday, the 24th July 2022 View Order of Service here It is the best-known Christian prayer shared all around the world between Christians. It is the prayer Jesus taught his disciples and has become since then the Lord’s prayer. We pray it every Sunday during the service in our own language. The words... Continue Reading →
--- Midweek Meditations:thoughts, inspiration and encouragementfrom ACF community members --- Don’t Take for Granted Don’t’ take for grantedYour FaithFor in a turbulent seaIt is the anchor that holds you safe Don’t take for grantedYour faith communityFor in times, you need them mostThey are the manifestations of grace Don’t take for grantedThe roof you have over... Continue Reading →
--- Midweek Meditations:thoughts, inspiration and encouragementfrom ACF community members --- Day 3 of Corona: The last three days were in a feverish daze, getting up for restroom or getting something to drink, everything seems endlessly exhausting and only a brief intermezzo to dozing off again into lots of dreams. I remember my first round of... Continue Reading →
Homily - Sunday, the 17th July 2022 Reading Luke 10:38-42view the Order of Service here 38 Now as they went on their way, he entered a certain village, where a woman named Martha welcomed him into her home. 39 She had a sister named Mary, who sat at the Lord’s feet and listened to what he was saying. 40 But... Continue Reading →
--- Midweek Meditations:thoughts, inspiration and encouragementfrom ACF community members --- On my birthday in February, I got one of those presents that puts one into the position of feeling forced to manufacture a more or less genuine-looking smile and sort-of-excited exclamation of ‘Thank you!’. The gift was a weekend trip to a Christian women’s camping... Continue Reading →
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