Welcome to Silent Time, the opportunity to think on what is important in life.
To be on the top of the mountain is nice – both literally when having been hiking or climbing up and enjoy the view, as well as in a transferred sense when things go well in life.
But just few days l…
What are the major difficulties in your life?
Once identified, the next question is: who can overcome them?
Different kinds of wisdom – different kinds of criteria:
The holy, almighty creator God has an eternal view that often differs from our human ideas in several regards. And his grace is beyond what we…
Struggles, trials and challenges in the mind - and how to handle them.
Even throughout the darkest hour the best friend we can imagine offers to be with us and to help.
Do you tell to God how to help?
It is funny that we with our limited human short term view try to tell the eternal, all-knowing creator God in which way to intervene. The Lord has higher longer term …
Despite the flood of evil going on in the world seems to be overwhelming, yet, on a small scale, good positive things have started already.
How can we find out whether a preacher proclaims the good news from the Lord or has one’s own agenda?
The public opinion often gives a lot of tolerance to those who talk foolish things and at the same time rejects those who proclaim the good news of the almighty eternal God.
To what do you like to listen to?
Mainly stories and legends?
Do you look for rest and joy?
As long as we live here in this life on earth, many factors try to hinder us from having real rest and joy.
Yet there is a firm positive outlook and already deep peace a…
Life’s circumstances give us a lot of unrest, such as persecution, hatred, stress and many more such things try to ham us, especially believers in the holy eternal creator God get such external press…
Is it ok to enjoy life?
We do not need to seek suffering. God knows what is best for us, and he will bring into our life everything in a way, timing and dosis that serves to our best in the long term…
As adults we might be proud of our wisdom and intellect, and at times we may look down to the simple-mindedness of children.
But the almighty creator God rejects such arrogance, and rather he loves t…
The “daily bread” is much more than food alone.
Interestingly, the Lord’s Prayer does not give a long list of things that we think we need, in the way that we might request for our wishes to be fulfi…
Is suffering good or bad?
Pains are never pleasant; still it is to be distinguished: e.g. pains from exercise might help to build up a muscle.
There are many different kinds of temptations – each person gets attacked in one’s weak areas.
Which efforts in life are useless and in vain?
Which efforts in life are useful and worth the pain?
Evil often comes in not so obviously; matters are turned around, people get confused, so that it appears as if good is bad and vice versa. Let’s pray for clarity, so that God may give us wisdom in al…
What does “the Father’s only begotten Son” have to do with your life nowadays?