building a community of grace
--- 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 →
--- Midweek Meditations:thoughts, inspiration and encouragementfrom ACF community members --- 'Thinking about Christmas'... A curious title for a Midweek Meditation at this time of year perhaps – or perhaps not. Christmas likely seems to you far away, in time and space. Chronological time certainly tells us that next Christmas is now almost as far away... Continue Reading →
--- Midweek Meditations:thoughts, inspiration and encouragementfrom ACF community members --- Across the world we now have driverless vehicles. Visibly there is no one in control but in reality, the entire maneuvering is designed and directed by a well set up control system guided of late artificial intelligence. People who travel in those vehicles trust their... Continue Reading →
--- Midweek Meditations:thoughts, inspiration and encouragementfrom ACF community members --- We are living in rational times and the more we perceive the presence of the reality in and around us, the better we feel being on a safe ground. Our statements and judgements should represent the truth, be evidence based; observed phenomena should be repeatable... Continue Reading →
--- Midweek Meditations:thoughts, inspiration and encouragementfrom ACF community members --- Recently I started reading Dietrich Bonhoeffer’s “Psalms: The Prayer Book of the Bible”. The more I read I realise why the Psalms were so important to Bonhoeffer and how much they supported him in his time in KZ Flosenbuerg till his execution 80 years ago.... Continue Reading →
--- Midweek Meditations:thoughts, inspiration and encouragementfrom ACF community members --- We live so fast, so absorbed in routine, that sometimes we forget life is woven from small miracles: like turning on the tap and having water come out, showering with hot water, washing our hands, opening the refrigerator and finding food, sleeping in a bed... Continue Reading →
--- Midweek Meditations:thoughts, inspiration and encouragementfrom ACF community members --- We recently had our AGM. The impressive and comprehensive report (with 21 pages) from the ACF spiritual leader included a chapter on the challenges of an inter-cultural church such as ACF Freiburg: "differences in cultural practices may lead to misunderstandings or friction, as each group... Continue Reading →
--- Midweek Meditations:thoughts, inspiration and encouragementfrom ACF community members --- One of my favourite poems is Percy Shelley’s “Ozymandias” (1819): OzymandiasI met a traveller from an antique landWho said: Two vast and trunkless legs of stoneStand in the desart.[d] Near them, on the sand,Half sunk, a shattered visage lies, whose frown,And wrinkled lip, and sneer... Continue Reading →
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