Psalm 36: 9, 10; John 1: 1-5 Of the 800,000 words in the English language. 300,000 are technical terms. The average person knows 10,000 words and uses 5,000 in everyday speech. A journalist knows approximately 15,000 and uses… Read More
I Corinthians 12: 1-11; II Corinthians 12: 9, 10 The last two messages and today are turning into an unplanned miniseries. Two weeks ago we talkedabout whether it would be possible for the Church to be a place… Read More
Matthew 6: 25, 26, 27; James 1: 22-26 Are you are a doer, or a be-er. Not be-er as in the beverage. Friends, are you always doing, doing and going going? Are you running around on vacation… Read More
Micah 5: 2-5a; Luke 2: 1-7 Nowhere in the Church year is a place so important and that place is Bethlehem. Bethlehem these days isn’t part of Israel anymore, it is a city of 25,000 with large numbers… Read More
Zephaniah 3: 14-20; Luke 1: 56-67 Advent is about anticipation, but what we anticipate is not always what we get. Two weeks ago we talked about nervous anticipation, last week it was urgent anticipation. Today we close off… Read More
Malachi 3:1-4; Luke 3:1-6 Like last week we talk about anticipation today as a way of understanding the season of Advent. Today we focus on urgent anticipation. We cram a lot of events into Advent. It’s kind of… Read More
Posted: February 13, 2013 by Aart
Reflection January 27
Nehemiah 8: 11, 12; Luke 4: 16-20 There is a line in the movie the Ice Harvest that goes as following:” if you are what you do, but you don’t do anything, who are you?” We have been… Read More