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+====== There is God ... ======
+Tuesday, July 30, 2024. Being a human is a truly amazing thing. Humans can be fantastic. Our mind, our body, our soul are complex structures, we are living beings. Our heart is pumping blood. It is making sure all parts of the body are nurtured with oxygen and many other substances. Our stomach is digesting food, converting its energy and substances into something the body can use.
+** Amazing Humans ... **
+Mankind has evolved over the past thousands of years. We developed language, writing, mathematics, natural sciences, philosopy. We tried to understand our world, and we managed to use it. We built ships, planes, cars. We built houses, towers, tunnels. We found electricity, magnetism, the atom and its components, explored the structure of space and time.
+[[jn_en_2024_07_30|... more]]
+====== Prayer House ... ======
+[[jn_en_2024_07_26|{{2018:2018_09_03.jpg }}]]
+Friday, July 26, 2024. When you experiment and explore a life where Christian faith and prayer play important roles, there is much to discover. Prayer is in the very centre of such a life. Prayer is like a world of its own, where many treasures can be found, where much is to be discovered about mankind, about fulfilment, about our desires and the struggle of our life.
+** There is someone special ... **
+Prayer means talking to God and listening to God. Prayer also means: to be in the presence of God, in a conscious way, sometimes in an unconscious way, but still! Prayer is much more than delivering wishes which God has to satisfy. Prayer is more than a ritual. If it is a ritual only, it fails. It can have ritual elements, which help you to pray. But it does not need to have particular ritual element. There are many ways to pray.
+[[jn_en_2024_07_26|... more]]
+[[jn_en_2024_07_23|{{ 2018:2018_07_05.jpg}}]]
+====== Prayer Experiences ... ======
+Tuesday, July 23, 2024. What are your prayer experiences? I remember that when I started to pray in a sincere way years ago, initially I had problems with it. But my experiences evolved in an unexpected way ...
+Prayer means to talk to God. Is God there? Is he listening? Am I just talking into the thin air? These questions might come to our mind when we start to pray. "God, do you hear me? Please answer me. Please listen to me!"
+** Get to know God ... **
+When you do not know God at all, how would you get to know him? When you pray, but you have no idea how God is, who God is, how can you learn about him? There might be different people and communities talking about God, about their particular God. Who is the real God? Who is the God you want to live with? [[jn_en_2024_07_23|... more]]
+====== Daily Prayer Times ... ======
+[[jn_en_2024_07_22|{{2018:2018_06_21.jpg }}]]
+Monday, July 22, 2024. Prayer is the main way, how we live with God. We talk to him, and we listen to him. Prayer can involve taking the bible to hear. But when you know the bible well, this will help you a lot, since you will remember what he said and he can use your memory when you listen to him.
+** Experiences ... **
+Turning to God in prayer is a time full of peace. It can be a time of deep and good experiences. What is happening, when you turn to God in prayer? The bible promises that he is there with his holy spirit. If you started to live with Jesus, this spirit even came to live with you and in you. But in any case, you can address God, and he wants to talk to you. [[jn_en_2024_07_22|... more]]
+[[jn_en_2024_07_18|{{ 2018:2018_06_12.jpg}}]]
+====== The Basis of Mankind ... ======
+Tuesday, July 18, 2024. It is interesting: humans are born as little babies. At the beginning, they are completely dependent on mother and father. They learn to speak, learn to eat, learn to walk, learn many things over 20 years. After all these years of childhood and youth a human is able to take responsibility and care for his or her life.
+** Based on what? ... **
+What is making your life work? Let us look at the whole range of the human life, from childhood to potentially having a family, and then grandchildren, high age, death. Or perhaps things do not work out that easily, there is illness, no family at all, some years of activity, early death. All this is possible, and each human has to deal with a particular fate.
+The following text is found in the letter which the Apostle Paul wrote to the Galatians, a church he founded himself years before.  [[jn_en_2024_07_18|... more]]
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+====== Clear and Gentle Spirit ... ======
+[[jn_en_2024_07_16|{{2018:2018_01_03.jpg }}]]
+Tuesday, July 16, 2024. Christian life can be very exciting. God is a fantastic god, who is there with his presence and spirit every day. When we turn to him, we can experience his presence and learn from him.
+Life with other Christians can be fantastic. There are so many stories one could tell. Many experiences with Christian spirit in very different people. I have found open hearts and friendship in very diverse churches, in Germany, in the UK, in Japan, in Lebanon, in the US, in Spain, in France ... The bible tries to teach us that there is one spirt, the spirit of God. It lives in believers, and they become brothers and sisters. This can be experienced, it is fantastic!
+[[jn_en_2024_07_16|... more]]
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+[[jn_en_2024_07_15|{{ 2016_03_04.jpg}}]]
+====== My Foundation ... ======
+Monday, July 15, 2024. What or who is the foundation of my life? Is it work, the things I do? Is it a particular state of myself? Is it friends? Is it talent? Is it my family, my wife or husband? Is it my country? Is it a particular group of people I belong to? Some people place their identity in the middle, as a kind of important foundation for their life.
+When you are very enthusiastic about something, it can appear as important part of your life. It can even be the foundation of your feelings, of your self-worth, of your identity. Being someone who always is enthusiastic about science and about the systems we build, I know this approach quite well. We have been proud on our achievements, that we build very good forecasting systems for the earth system. We have put in a lot of time and brain and effort.
+[[jn_en_2024_07_15|... more]]
+====== God Helps ... ======
+[[jn_en_2023_01_16|{{2016_05_04.jpg }}]]
+Monday, Jan 16, 2023. Human life can be threatened by many things. All of us know the threat which illness can pose. But there are many other threats, war and trouble of many kind. What is the role of faith in all of these threats? Let us talk about it ...
+** The living God ... **
+God is a living God. The bible confirms that there is nothing which would not be under control of the eternal God. But of course, in the middle of this world it appears as if there are many humans who make their own decisions - and they do. There are many powers, human, states, groups, individuals - in the physical and the spiritual world -, which have their own goals and agenda.
+[[jn_en_2023_01_16|... more]]
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+[[jn_en_2023_01_11|{{ 2016_05_03.jpg}}]]
+====== How does Life work? ... ======
+Wednesday, Jan 11, 2023. What is the basic thing which keeps you alife? It is clear that we have to eat and drink, that we need air to breath. It might be a little less clear that we need other people, living alone does not work - we cannot survive. Is that all what we need?
+** Life ... **
+How does life work? Today we know a lot about the human body, about its biology, its medicine, its physics, chemistry, psychology. To some extent we are considered as machines which are in intense interaction with its surrounding. We take in water and food. We take in air. The substances are changed by our internal processes, they are transformed and given back to the environment in transformed way.
+What is human?
+[[jn_en_2023_01_11|... more]]
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+====== Precious Things ... ======
+[[jn_en_2023_01_10|{{2018:2018_01_12.jpg }}]]
+Tuesday, Jan 1, 2023. Good morning! What is valuable to you in the new year 2023? What are the core things which attract you? What is it that is most worth for your life?
+** Found great Value ... **
+In my own life I made a lot of different experiences with things or people of high value. Of course, to be in a great family is of high value. To find a precious partner is of high value. Friends are of huge value. It is great to learn about nature, to learn sciences, to gain insight into how the world works. Also, music is of high value to me, I learned to play the piano, the violine, the guitar. I also found it valuable to be able to work for my expenses. To succeed in your work is very satisfactory and nice. It can be great to make some kind of career, to be given responsibility.
+[[jn_en_2023_01_10|... more]]
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+[[jn_en_2022_04_20|{{ 2022:2022_04_19.jpg}}]]
 ====== Resurrection II ... ======