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Alternatlive! …!!
That’s, live an alternative. Let’s critically rethink the way we perceive and live life. I will list alternatives with equal costs, i.e. between one can choose. Dwelling. My dwelling currently consists of a small room (14m² incl. bathroom) in a multi-party house on the border of a midsize town. I might just as well join […]
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Good spiritual weather
Sometimes it happens that I am very frustrated in the evening and go to bed with a depressed, angry mood, really pissed off by everything and everybody. The world seems all dark, and actually it is, as it is late at night, e.g. 2 a.m.. Then the next morning I wake up early, and I […]
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The necessity of pragmatic faith
Introduction In the article “Called, the third way” from 2007-12-03 I came to the conclusion that one should “[v]iew your actions as essentially human activity in obedience to God’s general will, except where God’s immediate instructions surprise you.” And in the follow-up article “What we term relationship to Jesus” I argued that “relationship”, when applied […]
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My leftover Unicode characters
Yesterday, I was in the process of looking for a fitting logo for my new-established minikin company. Me thought it was an interesting idea to look for a Unicode / UCS character that would be fit to represent the logo I had in mind. So I grabbed the gucharmap tool and looked for such a […]
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What we term relationship to Jesus
In the evangelical realm, “(personal) relationship to Jesus” is a popular expression. Intuitively, this implies two-way communication, as this is present in every other relationship. And consequentially, people who entered this “relationship to Jesus” expect Jesus to talk to them: personally, immediately, contemporarily, and regularly. Sad to add that these people are way too often […]
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Direct faith, lost in 1st century
Personally, I believe that Jesus is the Christ, the saviour of mankind. But while I believe this, it feels distant: I cannot associate contemporary, concrete confirmation to this belief. These words “Jesus is the Christ” are a theory for me, and I don’t know how to apply it and live it out. Sure, I may […]
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Xmas post
So, here’s my Christmas post. I don’t think that the sight was any better when Jesus was born in a cold, filthy stable and laid into a feeding trough. “You know how much love our Lord Jesus Christ had. He was rich, but he became poor for your sakes. Because he became poor, you can […]