Welcome to Silent Time, the opportunity to think on what is important in life.
Freedom – what would you like to be free of?
God wants us to have freedom. He could have created us like puppets, but he created us humans with a free will.
We often take away our own freedom by eith…
Water is necessary for life – we become aware of it especially in dry places like when walking through a desert.
Not only does our body need physical water to drink, also our soul needs water, even i…
We all look forward to better times. But what do we do in order to achieve it? Do we only pursue fun and pleasures in order to seek short term distraction from the troubles of life? Or take also step…
As humans we naturally want to go upwards, to gain honour and favour with people or to accumulate more possessions and so on.
Jesus did the opposite, he went downwards – in order to help us!
What do you do, if you have too many things to do, a long list of tasks, and there is not enough time?
A clever person will set priorities and focus on the most important things.
That is a useful pri…
What do you reply if someone says “it does not matter which religion one follows”?
Many people imply that it is more important to do good deeds.
And most religions claim that the major point is the e…
What do you think about compromises? Are they good? Are they bad?
Often compromises between 2 conflicting opinions are useful to find a solution and a way ahead.
Pilate also knew that sometimes compr…
Have you ever done a small favour to someone, and that person made you a much bigger present of incomparably more value?
Whatever we can do for Jesus is much smaller than the tremendous gift that he …
What is your reaction to that great news? – “He has risen!”
The greatest news of history about the decisive victory of all times and for everyone personally: “The Lord has risen!”
Are you interested?
…Do you have anything to eat?
To most people of our times sufficient food supplies are available.
Less obvious, beyond the need for food and other physical stuff, there are also other types of needs t…
What can technology do? More and more things. The advance in development is amazing. Technology can do things that were thought of as being impossible in the past.
What can technology not do?
“Ill-mannered behaviour” – what comes to your mind?
The behaviour of a small child?
Or your own moods, tempers and unreasonable desires?
Blessed is the person who recognizes wrong behaviour not only …
In the past, the festival of reconciliation was a great day for the people.
What can we learn from that for the life nowadays in our current times?
Are you sometimes sad about how people behave?
It can be especially disappointing if beloved people like family members ruin their lives, such as teenagers and young adults taking wrong decisions tha…
Some people easily get our attention and they might fascinate us with their rhetoric or visions. But let’s be careful not to follow the wrong persons and ideas. In order to distinguish, it is good to…
Is it possible to cheer up a person, who bears a lot of sorrow in mind?
What is the major factor, whether the good intentions to help will succeed or not?
To what do you give the highest priority in your life?
Which logic do you follow in life?
Do you still only try to maximize your own benefit as most people do?
Or have you already understood that there is more to life than that?
Who is Jesus?
What would you say?
Some say he started a religion, others say he gave good moral teachings, others say he was a prophet.
When we do not know for sure, let's turn to the most original s…