building a community of grace
--- Midweek Meditations:thoughts, inspiration and encouragementfrom ACF community members --- In the past weeks I was part of the Alpha Course at the ACF. We were talking about God, Jesus and the Bible and were listening to a lot of interesting stories. One of the questions that came from an answer was: Is it a... Continue Reading →
--- Midweek Meditations:thoughts, inspiration and encouragementfrom ACF community members --- Since we have moved, it has been very difficult to come and visit and be in fellowship with you all. It has been a bit of a whirlwind, with Jasmine starting kita and running the place as if she owns it, and Tatjana and I... Continue Reading →
--- Midweek Meditations:thoughts, inspiration and encouragementfrom ACF community members --- Our life is full of rituals reflecting believes or traditions (not to get up with the left foot, how we greet one another, be careful on certain days like Friday 13 in Germany). Rituals of dressing, greeting, behaving shape our daily routine and give us... Continue Reading →
--- Midweek Meditations:thoughts, inspiration and encouragementfrom ACF community members --- You may be familiar with the social experiment by the Washington Post which put a man with a violin playing Bach pieces for 45 minutes in a metro central station in Washington. During that time, around 2,000 people went through the station. Only six people... Continue Reading →
--- Midweek Meditations:thoughts, inspiration and encouragementfrom ACF community members --- My meditation is a combination of testimony and encouragement. The testimony is about some of my experiences throughout my life during Holy Week and an encouragement to make the most of Holy Week which starts on Palm Sunday and ends on Easter morning. Most of... Continue Reading →
--- Midweek Meditations:thoughts, inspiration and encouragementfrom ACF community members --- This week we have the privilege to share with you a guest post: a short story about a trip to Freiburg by Jamie Read, Congregational Pastor of St Nicholas Church, Sevenoaks in South-East England. He shared this text in his church's newsletter and has given... Continue Reading →
--- Midweek Meditations:thoughts, inspiration and encouragementfrom ACF community members --- The shadow of the cross was looming large upon Jesus. He had already spoken to his disciples about the impending suffering, rejection, dying and the rising again. And as the hour was approaching Jesus went with his disciples to Gethsemane. He told them to watch... Continue Reading →
--- Midweek Meditations:thoughts, inspiration and encouragementfrom ACF community members --- Last week at UWC Robert Bosch College, I began teaching a unit on religion as part of the International Baccalaureate course ‘Theory of Knowledge’. It’s one theme of five that students can choose among. Many did in fact, wanting to explore the interesting relationship between... Continue Reading →
--- Midweek Meditations:thoughts, inspiration and encouragementfrom ACF community members --- Just made it again, the first song still a bit short of breath, thoughts still running wild, coming and going, all the open tasks competing for attention, and it feels like a train station with trains arriving, departing just so the next train can arrive... Continue Reading →
--- Midweek Meditations:thoughts, inspiration and encouragementfrom ACF community members --- 35.000 in Frankfurt. 30.000 in Hamburg. 50.000 in Munich. 20.000 in Cologne. Christian Democrats alongside Greens, Leftists and Liberals, Social Democrats. All united by their professed adherence to democratic principles, and admonishing each other to mind the main chance of parliamentary democracy. There is something... Continue Reading →
Freiburg Anglican Church 
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