HOPE FOR ALL


The Gospel - God's declaration of love to us

Many Christians are not sure and worried about it, God still loves them? They are worried that God might reject them, and worse, that he has already rejected them. Maybe you are the same scared. Why do you think Christians are so worried? The answer is simply that they are honest with themselves. They know that they are sinners. They are aware of their failure, their mistakes, their ...

When inner bonds fall

The land of the Gerasenes was on the east shore of the Sea of ​​Galilee. As Jesus got out of the boat, he met a man who was obviously not master of himself. He lived there between burial caves and tombstones of a cemetery. Nobody had been able to tame him. Nobody was strong enough to deal with him. Day and night he roamed about, screaming loudly and hitting himself with stones. "But when he saw Jesus afar off, he ran and fell before him...

The redeemed life

What does it mean to be a follower of Jesus? What does it mean to share in the redeemed life that God gives us in Jesus through the Holy Spirit? It means leading an authentic real Christian life through our example, serving selflessly to our fellow human beings. The apostle Paul goes much further: «Do you not know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit that is within you and that you have from God, and that you do not ...

Get to know Jesus

There is often talk of getting to know Jesus. How to do this, however, seems a bit nebulous and difficult. This is especially because we can neither see nor speak face to face. He is real. But it is neither visible nor palpable. We can not hear his voice either, except on rare occasions. How could we then get to know him? Lately, more than one ...

The certainty of salvation

Paul argues again and again in Romans that we owe it to Christ that God regards us as justified. Although we sin sometimes, those sins are counted towards the old self who was crucified with Christ. Our sins do not count against what we are in Christ. We have a duty to fight sin not to be saved, but because we are already children of God. In the last part of Chapter 8 ...

Mankind has a choice

From a human perspective, God's power and will is often misunderstood in the world. Too often people use their power to dominate and impose their will on others. For all of humanity the power of the cross is a strange and stupid concept. The secular notion of power can have an ubiquitous impact on Christians and lead to misinterpretation of scripture and the gospel message. "This is good…

The glory of God's forgiveness

Although God's wonderful forgiveness is one of my favorite subjects, I have to admit that it's hard to even begin to grasp how real it is. God has planned her from the beginning as his generous gift, a costly act of forgiveness and reconciliation through his Son, culminating in his death on the cross. Thus we are not only acquitted, we are restored - "brought into harmony" with our loving ...

Die Hoffnung stirbt zuletzt

There is a saying, "Hope dies last!" If this saying were true, death would be the end of hope. In the sermon at Pentecost, Peter declared that death could no longer hold Jesus: "God raised (Jesus) him and delivered him from the pangs of death, for it was impossible for him to be held by death" (Acts 2,24). Paul later explained that Christians, as depicted in the symbolism of baptism, do not ...

Our Heart - A Letter from Christ

When was the last time you received a letter in the mail? In the modern age of email, Twitter and Facebook, most of us are getting fewer and fewer letters than we used to. But in the time before the electronic exchange of messages, almost everything was done by letter over long distances. It was and still is very simple; a sheet of paper, a pen to write with, an envelope and a stamp, that's all you need. In the time of the apostle Paul...

Jesus lives!

If you could only choose one biblical passage that would summarize your entire life as a Christian, what would it be? Perhaps this most quoted verse: "For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life?" (Joh 3, 16). A good choice! For me, the following verse, the most important thing that the Bible as a whole is to understand: "On that day you will ...

What do you think about non-believers?

I address you with an important question: How do you feel about non-believers? I think that's a question we should all think about! Chuck Colson, founder of the Prison Fellowship and the Breakpoint Radio program in the US, once answered this question with an analogy: If a blind man steps on you or pours hot coffee over your shirt, would you be mad at him? He answers himself that we probably would not be, just ...

Sin and not despair?

It is very surprising that in a letter to his friend Philip Melanchthon, Martin Luther admonishes him: "Be a sinner and let sin be mighty, but more powerful than sin be your trust in Christ and rejoice in Christ, that he is the sin, has overcome death and the world. At first glance, the call seems unbelievable. To understand Luther's reminder, we need to take a closer look at the context. Luther does not designate sinners ...

All people are included

Jesus has risen! We can well understand the excitement of the assembled disciples of Jesus and the believers. He is risen! Death could not hold him; the grave had to release him. More than 2000 years later, we still greet each other with these enthusiastic words on Easter morning. "Jesus is risen indeed!" Jesus' resurrection sparked a movement that continues to this day - it began with a few dozen Jewish men and women who…

Do we teach the All-reconciliation?

Some people claim that the theology of the Trinity teaches a universalism, that is, the assumption that every human will be saved. For it does not matter whether he is good or bad, remorseful or not, or whether he has accepted or denied Jesus. So there is no hell. I have two difficulties in making this claim, which is a fallacy: firstly, belief in the Trinity does not require that one ...

Does God still love you?

Do you know that many Christians live every day and are not sure that God still loves them? They are worried that God might reject them, and worse, that he has already rejected them. Maybe you are the same scared. Why do you think Christians are so worried? The answer is simply that they are honest with themselves. They know that they are sinners. They are aware of their failure, their ...

God also loves atheists

Every time it comes to discussions about the question of faith, I wonder why it seems that believers feel at a disadvantage. The believers apparently assume that the atheists have somehow gained the proof, unless the faithful manage to refute it. The fact is, on the other hand, atheists are unable to prove that God does not exist. Just because believers do not convince atheists of the existence of God ...
uniqueness of the child

Discover your uniqueness

It is the story of the Wemmicks, a small tribe of wooden dolls created by a wood carver. The main activity of the Wemmicks is to give each other stars for success, cleverness or beauty, or gray dots for clumsiness and ugliness. Punchinello is one of the wooden dolls that always only wore gray dots. Punchinello goes through life in sorrow until one day he meets Lucia, who is neither a star...

Jesus and the resurrection

Every year we celebrate Jesus' resurrection. He is our Savior, Savior, Redeemer and our King. As we celebrate the resurrection of Jesus, we are reminded of the promise of our own resurrection. Because we are united with Christ in faith, we share in his life, death, resurrection, and glory. This is our identity in Jesus Christ. We have accepted Christ as our Savior and Savior, therefore our life is in Him...

Salvation is God's matter

To all of us who have children, I ask a few questions. "Did your child ever disobey you?" If you answered yes, like all other parents, we come to the second question: "Have you ever punished your child for disobedience?" How long did the sentence last? To put it even more clearly: "Did you tell your child that the punishment will never end?" That sounds crazy, does not it? We who are weak and ...

The lost coin

In the Gospel of Luke we find a story in which Jesus speaks of what it is like when someone is desperately looking for something that he has lost. It is the story of the lost coin: "Or suppose a woman had ten drachmas and would lose one" The drachma was a Greek coin that was about the value of the Roman denarius or about twenty francs. "Wouldn't she light a lamp and turn the whole house upside down until ...

Lazarus and the rich man - a story of unbelief

Have you ever heard that those who die as infidels can no longer be reached by God? It is a cruel and destructive doctrine, the proof of which is a single verse in the parable of the rich man and poor Lazarus. Like all biblical passages, this parable also stands in a specific context and can only be understood correctly in this context. It's always bad to have a doctrine on a single verse ...
Message for Christmas

The message for Christmas

Christmas also has a great fascination for those who are not Christian or believers. These people are touched by something that is hidden deep within them and that they long for: security, warmth, light, calm or peace. If you ask people why they celebrate Christmas, you will get a variety of answers. Even among Christians there are often different opinions about the meaning of this festival. For us Christians...

prayer for all people

Paul sent Timothy to the church in Ephesus to clear up some problems in the transmission of the faith. He also sent him a letter outlining his mission. This letter was to be read in front of the whole congregation so that each of its members would be aware of Timothy's authority to act on the apostle's behalf. Paul pointed out, among other things, what should be heeded in the congregational service: "I therefore admonish that...

What is salvation?

Why do I live? Does my life make sense? What happens to me when I die? Urfragen, probably everyone has ever asked. Questions to which we answer you here an answer that should show: Yes, life has a meaning; yes, there is a life after death. Nothing is safer than death. One day we receive the dreaded news that a loved one has died. Yeah, it reminds us that we too have to die ...