The Highest Heaven
The entry into Jerusalem and the commotion it causes is an eloquent example of the saying: children, drunks, and fools speak the truth. The crowd that welcomes Jesus is drunk […]
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Feeding the Five Thousand (John 6)
For our earthly understanding, the feeding of the five thousand is an incomprehensible wonder, a miracle. But for Jesus’ contemporaries it was also incomprehensible, witness the question asked by Andrew: […]
The Parable of the Sower (Luke 8:4-15)
The parable of the sower may be the most recognizable, the most familiar one of all the parables in the New Testament. You can precisely follow every step of the […]
“Speak just one word, then my servant will be healed.” (Matthew 8:8)
The art of having a long illness and of slowly healing is one of the most difficult challenges in life. Especially the first, having a long illness, is one of […]
Whoever is Afraid of the Future Has Lost Half the Future
From the earliest days of Christianity, hope was a support that offered a prospect of the future in all the storms of life. We find the symbol of hope, the […]
Christmas. For what? For whom?
So much is needed to bring a child into the world and bring it up in our hostile world! Much more is needed for it than formerly, when children were […]
Twilight in Advent
Between day and night, night and day, there is a brief transition, that grows and fades again. One moment the sky glows with mesmerizing colors, then again the colorful display […]
I saw a new heaven and a new earth. (Rev.21:1)
The older we get, the smaller we get, not just literally but most often also figuratively. Usually, as people get older, they go bent through life. But it is a […]
“You have the name of being alive, yet you are dead.” (Rev.3:1)
When you really want to understand someone, you have to be willing to reverse roles with him or her. Usually we look at things from our own standpoint, our own […]
“Stand fast, girded about the loins with truth. (Ephesians 6:14)
When in our language we can’t find the right words to express something, we use gestures to reinforce our words. Sometimes such a gesture says more than all words. Of […]