I believe I am dreaming God’s dream for his holy family, his chosen people, a temple of living stones, an earth in harmony with heaven, of God dwelling among mankind. I am trying to describe God’s dream of a holy, blameless and beautiful bride for his Son. The Bride is by all Christian understood as a communion of grace, a fellowship of grace, consisting of men and women who have found mercy and forgiveness. When the bride is described as glorious and faultless is it only because of the work of God who is saving sinners, joining people together and fulfilling his work in them by his grace. More and more people will join this community of God’s people. We are created for this community. We all long for it, sometimes without knowing it, and we can all enter it by the grace of God.
Month: May 2007
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Quotes of Gandhi 19
Measures must always in a progressive society be held superior to men, who are after all imperfect instruments working for their fulfilment.
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Quotes of Gandhi 18
I do not want my house to be walled in on all sides and my windows to be stuffed. I want the cultures of all the lands to be blown about my house as freely as possible. But I refuse to be blown off my feet by any. I refuse to live in other people’s houses as an interloper, a beggar or a slave.
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Hurray for 17. May 2007!
It is a wonderful day in Norway today. We are celebrating our national day. It is like a national birthday. There is nothing like celebrating 17. May in Norway when the sun is shining and the leaves of the trees are sprouting and lots of flowers blossoming.Today we have a double celebration as it also is Ascension Day. We are celebrating that Jesus Christ sits on the throne and reigns as King for ever!
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Manesh is facing difficulties
I have just had a text-message on my mobile telephone from one of my friends in India that our friend Manesh has been assaulted by two men. When he left the worship gathering in his house church he was followed by the two young men. The first time he was able to get away from them, but this time they beat him and threatened him that something much worse would happen to him if he continued to meet with the church in the house.
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Quotes of Gandhi 17
Non-cooperation is directed not against men but against measures. It is not directed against the Govenors, but against the system they administer. The roots of non-cooperation lie not in hatred but in justice, if not in love.
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White paper. All nuances.
As usually I met with the leaders of the church for prayer this Tuesday morning. We were having a good time in the presence of the Lord. Then a big truck passed by the round window towards the street on outside of our building. It was driving slowly enough for me to read the message written on the lorry. It was kind of a unusual sentence. Was it meant to be an advertisement or a slogan? The message was catching my attention because it seemed to convey a hidden message. On the white lorry it was written i big black letters these words: White paper. All nuances.
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The dream-book par excellence
My father and mother took me to the meetings at the prayer-house from my early childhood. The prayer-house became my second home. Here I met a new and exciting world through the many visiting missionaries. They clothed themselves in colourful and strange costumes, showed slides and told of unbelievable things from the foreign lands where they had been. Then I started to dream of becoming a missionary travelling to distant countries with the good news of salvation and forgiveness. I read countless mission-books that nourished my dream of becoming a missionary preaching for those who had never heard the good news before.
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Quotes of Gandhi 16
Even as wisdom often comes from the mouths of babes, so does it often comes from the mouths of old people. The golden rule is to test everything in the light of reason and experience, no matter from where it comes.
