building a community of grace
--- Midweek Meditations:thoughts, inspiration and encouragementfrom ACF community members --- Give thanks to the Lord, for he is good; his love endures forever. I Chronicles 16:34 It’s that time of year again when across the world we are reminded to be thankful. Throughout history harvest time has been a time cultures have said thank you... Continue Reading →
Homily - Sunday, the 13th October 2024 Reading: Hebrews 4:15-16 For we do not have a high priest who is unable to sympathize with our weaknesses, but we have one who in every respect has been tested as we are, yet without sin. Let us therefore approach the throne of grace with boldness, so that... Continue Reading →
--- Midweek Meditations:thoughts, inspiration and encouragementfrom ACF community members --- It is a fact: Nobody likes criticism. No one likes to be judged. Working my whole life on: a) QI (Quality improvement) with a strong focus on monitoring and evaluation and, b) as health lecturer at the university, I have been implementing continuous evaluations. Either... Continue Reading →
Homily - Sunday, the 6th October 2024 Reading: Mark 10:2-26 Let me start by saying:I am so sorry if today’s storyof Jesus arguing about divorcetouched a raw nerve for you. Maybe this theme caught you off-guard:You didn’t expect to be hurt,here, on a Sunday morning, of all places! Please bear with me. Look after yourself.... Continue Reading →
My Chaplain letter to the congregation in Freiburg this time is a series of questions I ask myself and wart all of us to seriously ask ourselves. Here are those questions: How Long? How long can we continue living the way we are leaving today? How long can we continue to have wars? How long... Continue Reading →
--- Midweek Meditations:thoughts, inspiration and encouragementfrom ACF community members --- Eighty years ago, on Sept. 23, 1944, British submarine H.M.S. Trenchant torpedoed and sank the German U-boat U 859 in the approaches to Penang. Among those killed that day was my father’s 20 year-old cousin Fritz. I remember hearing about this cousin from my childhood,... Continue Reading →
--- Midweek Meditations:thoughts, inspiration and encouragementfrom ACF community members --- Soaring on wings like eagles So effortless, peaceful, steady, High above all the daily ground work, the labor, the sweat of trying to climb step by step. There is not even a flap of wings that carry the majestic bird higher and higher Circles written... Continue Reading →
--- Midweek Meditations:thoughts, inspiration and encouragementfrom ACF community members --- It can be hard to live with diversity – but it doesn’t have to be. As I was recently reminded in viewing a documentary, we ourselves make it so. The documentary is entitled “Human”, and I came across it the other day, when doing research... Continue Reading →
Two Reflections for the Blessing of the New Academic Year - Sunday, the 8th September 2024 A New Creation: “Look, new things have come into being!” So if anyone is in Christ, there is a new creation: everything old has passed away; look, new things have come into being! All this is from God, who... Continue Reading →
You blind guides! You strain out a gnat but swallow a camel! Matthew 23:24 The Gnat is the smallest of the unclean species mentioned in the law and the camel is the largest (Lev 11:4). Jesus is making it clear here that while being careful about the minute details of the law and the requirements... Continue Reading →
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