One of the biggest problems before the Christian faith today is that all Christians claim they believe in God, but not all of them live according to their own claims. In other words, many of us daily call ourselves Christians, but far too many of us don’t live like Christians.

Let’s look at the relationship between a child and his or her parents as an analogue of ours with God. When a child truly trusts his or her parents, he or she waits patiently and faith till their promises come true. When mummy and daddy promise their son a new bicycle he doesn’t immediately run out, seeking for ways to buy it himself earlier than it’s promised to him. Where there is trust in a relationship between two sides, there is also patience and faith.

Between many believers and God, however, the trust is little… so, naturally, many Christians quickly run out of patience and lose faith. God, on the other hand, doesn’t cease caring for us, but how is it possible to feel Him caring if all the time we’re trying to solve our problems on our own and pay more attention to them than we do to God? Read more…

Happy New Year! Petra and I wish you a year of growth in faith and God’s blessing at God’s timely moments!

We did have an easy and quiet evening at home… proof of that is the fact that I’m blogging at 1:10am on January 1st. Unfortunately, Petra was a bit ill (for the 3rd New Year’s eve in a row!) and we didn’t have many other options at hand. So now she’s asleep and I’m back to everyday life. But at least the firework was worth seeing from the balcony. They estimated that some 80mil. EUR (last year’s was ~65mil.) were spent on it this year in the Netherlands - for that money it better be good.

As promised, here come two shots from the Christmas celebration at our church in Rotterdam:

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Well, have a Happy New Year! I’m off to an episode of TopGear…