Building Bridges.....

Had a wonderful time celebrating Thanksgiving last Saturday November 28. Great Food, Great Fellowship and Sweet Memories. Wonderful opportunity to build bridges and to give the Lord Thanks...

Have you ever been standing at a crossroad? Ive been several times at a crossroad while driving on our holiday trips on Crete island, and that's tough. I want to go one way, my wife points out the other direction and when we look at the map, mmm She is right!'' Nowadays there are things like "GPS" but that won't help you when it comes to crossroads in life. Crossroads in life could be : should I continue to study this or something else, or should I consider these friends not good to hang out with and change my circle of acquaintances, should I stick to this job or try to find another, or should I continue to go to this church or try to find another spiritual home? Lessons to be learned is to pray, listen, wait, and obey. Easier said than done. The Bible tells us in Psalm 32:8-10: I will instruct you and teach you in the way you should go; I will counsel you and watch over you. Do not be like the horse or the mule, which have no understanding...

When you read trough the New Testament in the Bible you soon see that Jesus in his time was not "politically correct". He said and claimed things often that offended people, but at the same time what he said was the truth. Some of the disciples after Jesus' resurrection,sacrificed their lives for this truth, a risky business really. But there is one man who just once appear in the New Testament but stood up for Jesus and offended the Pharisees when they investigated his healing, and that was the blind man in John 9. The blind man replied to the investigators: "Whether he is a sinner or not, I don't know, but one thing I know. I was blind but now I see". The Pharisees were blind too, but then we are talking about spiritual blindness. They kept asking him over again and he said to them, perhaps yelled he at them "Why do you want to hear it again!? Do you want to become his disciples too? Oh, I can only imagine how the Pharisees would look like in t...

This week, Monday November 9 it was exactly 20 years ago since the Berlin Wall was teared down. A wall that separated people, ideologies and divided a country. I never saw the wall in real, but Ive seen it in pictures many times and that day 20 years ago I will never forget. That wall seemed so unbreakable, not because it was made of concrete and iron, no because all it stand for. Walls are raised for many different reasons, some are needed some not. Some are raised for the purpose to protect , others to destroy. There are walls that are physical and there are walls that are mental. Some walls even spiritual. Mental or spiritual walls could be walls in your daily life, at your workplace, in your home, at your church etc. These walls are perhaps the most difficult ones to break down, but when they are down it sure feels great. Do you have such walls in you or around you? Have you ever tried to break them down? if not why? what hinders you? if you have how did it feel like? One thing ...

I bet you all have different insurances for many different things. Some are needed, some perhaps not. Some you must have, by law, some we are glad we had when the accident was there. We spend a lot of money on insurances and gladly we never have to use them, but do we really need all? I was glad I had a special insurance some month ago when my son Linus new glasses was broken. Brand new and destroyed. We got a new pair for just 95 Swedish krone’s.(around 9 euros) That’s awesome. When we got the new pair I looked at the very small text( it usually is ) and red when the insurance is not valid. it says: when your eye site is getting worse Ordinary wear and so on , and this I can understand but then I read further is not valid if you glasses are damage in: New clear war or new clear accidents Civil war Revolution Revolt, etc Well if his glasses are damage during this different states the first thing is not new glasses that’s on my mind. (who came up with the idea to this terms!?) One that ...