building a community of grace
--- 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 →
--- Midweek Meditations:thoughts, inspiration and encouragementfrom ACF community members --- “God is spirit, and those that worship Him must worship in spirit and in truth” (John 4:24) Many years ago, I heard this verse chanted in a recording of an Ash Wednesday Evensong. Twelve years later, in 2006, I almost died in a taxi accident... Continue Reading →
--- Midweek Meditations:thoughts, inspiration and encouragementfrom ACF community members --- This past season has been one of the hardest of my life. My closest person (my father, or as I call him, my Baba yes with a B and not P) recently went through heart surgery. By God’s mercy, he came through it and is... Continue Reading →
--- Midweek Meditations:thoughts, inspiration and encouragementfrom ACF community members --- Having a community of wonderful, diverse, and loving people is truly a blessing.To be there for one another, to love your neighbour as yourself, to uplift and encourage eachother as a church is a beautiful way of living indeed.As much as we excel in this... Continue Reading →
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