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God wants to give you rest!

I sometimes enjoy thinking about just how life was in the past. One noticeable difference between then and the present age is the lack of electricity and machinery to help with everyday duties. How did people in the centuries before Thomas Edison find time to do anything? Doing laundry with washboards, plowing with oxen, hauling…

Look over your fence

If we could shrink the world to the size of a village with 100 people and kept all proportions, then in that village there would be 59 Asians, 15 Africans, 12 Europeans, 9 Latin-Americans and people from the Caribbean, and 5 north Americans. The richest in that village would own 65 times more than the…

Running For The Prize

It is healthy for each and every one of us to have a certain amount of goals in our lives. Goals that we strive to reach. A goal is an objective that a person or a system plans or intends to achieve. Almost a year ago my wife decided to celebrate our 25th wedding anniversary…

A BIGGER picture

I meet people all the time that wonder if they really make a difference, or rather, if they CAN make a difference. The biggest lie people are blinded with today is that they can´t. That it really doesn´t matter if I exist or not. Many people have really not understood that they CAN make a…

The Day After Easter Sunday….

Wow! What an amazing Easter I have had. For over the past week I have been bombarded in different ways with the power of the Easter message through music, drama, teaching, dance and more. Today, the day after Easter Resurrection Sunday, my thoughts go to the impact that Christś life, death and resurrection has had…

Cross-road

A few days ago I was heading out to a suburb called Mölndal to have a talk with someone. Nothing unusual about that, but the difference this time was that I wasn’t going to be taking my car but be traveling on public transport. After arriving in the suburb I jumped off the bus and…

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Time-Wise

This coming Saturday night it’s time once again to adjust our clocks one hour forward and enter into what we here in Sweden call ”Summertime”, quite hilarious when you think of the mornings that can still be under the point of freezing. Regarding the subject of time, it is amazing how we can get side…

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Ups and Downs

In life we all experience ups and downs, but what matters the most is how you deal with them. There are certain times when life presents us with extremely positive experiences that  really charge us with energy, but there are also times that take us through rough patches. All these experiences whether positive or negative should…

Growth

Spiritual development happens when our lives are focused upon becoming more like Christ. God has shown me that it is easy to become distracted with being “busy” and miss out on the joy of intentional focus upon reading and meditating on God’s Word and taking time in prayer. Spiritual development and formation is much more…

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Teach and Tell

I was listening to a seven year old doing a “teach and tell” with so much pride, about her country. This oral and very visual presentation lasted for ten minutes with this little girl giving facts about the history, geography and traditions of her country as well as telling of her most favorite places. When she was…