Silent Time

Joshua got a big task. It seemed to be too difficult.

Do you also know such situations? It may look like there are too many challenges and difficulties in life.

Yet there is one reason not to give up…

His own people did not receive him.

How about us today?

On what we set our eyes, we also set our mind, we fix our attention on that matter or thing.

On what do you set your eyes? Our focus might be on a better job or on a better place to live.

Do you focu…

What is purity in heart?

Can anyone achieve it?

What is righteousness?

One could find long definitions and explanations.

A simple way to put it is: “to be put right with God”. And that is important, because God is the almighty, the highest being, …

Do you sometimes wish to live in a better world? Many times I would wish for that, but that is not the reality. We live in the world as it is with all its injustice and wrongdoing that is going on. T…

If something is really important to someone, the person will automatically talk about it. Just remember someone who was overwhelmed by a certain thing or matter, the person automatically talks about …

What are your circumstances of life? Can you live in freedom? Or are you bound or in chains or due to your physical condition cannot move freely?

Whatever your conditions of life are, let’s remember …

What remains permanently?

Many things come and go. Even things which appear to us as if they were of long term nature, yet one day they will be gone, same like ourselves.

What lasts permanently?

What is your motto of life, what do you aim for, what are your targets?

To get promoted?

To gain esteem?

Many things promise us happiness, for example the advertisement.

But if at all, the smiles last only for a while.

What gives us real contentment and inner joy? In order to answer that, we need to loo…

Rejoicing in sorrow? Being happy despite problems – is that possible?

Often it seems as if only the healthy, wealthy and successful can be happy.

But if we dig deeper, we find out that it is not alwa…

Help for the helpless – in which points or areas of life do you feel helpless?

Many claim that they do not need help, they seem to have everything under control.

Others are more honest and admit that…

Do you know of times of so much trouble that you almost want to give up? You are overwhelmed and almost fainting away?

There are many types of enemies, troubles and traps.

But the one helper is bigge…

At which point are you in the journey of life?

Do you at times feel as if things do not go ahead, there is no progress?

We might be crushed or broken, yet do not give up! There is hope and help avail…

What is the source of life?

It is obvious that the parents have given life to the child, who later grows up.

But how do we find a fulfilled life?

Does your reputation matter to you? Some people care a lot about their reputation, others claim that they do not care. But somehow it matters to everybody.

The question is: the reputation at whose en…