Author Archives: Markus

Redemption Part 11: An unusual Team

If you put together a Team you look at that the people are well educated in your area and help you to achieve what you set out to.  Today we will talk about a team that is put together a bit different. Be inspired and encouraged. You find the bible reference for todays topic in Mark 1:16-20

Hi our friend

How are you?

We pre wrote this blog since we just got back from our trip a few days before this blog posted so there is no update for this week, but this coming Monday there will be one!! We hope you enjoy the Redemption Series!!

We also want to encourage you to follow God fully like the disciples. He knows you more than you know yourself, trust his guidance.

God bless you

Markus, Jen and Caleb

Redemption Part 10: A big win

A big win is something fantastic. Today we are talking about a big win that Jesus had. Be inspired and encouraged. You find the bible reference for todays topic in Luke 4

Hi our friend

How are you?

We are on a vaccation so there is no new update this week. Have a wonderful week!!

Also spend time this week to ask God where the enemy could tempt you and ask God to bring healing and strength in that area so you can fully walk out the things God is calling you to.

God bless you

Markus, Jen and Caleb

Redemption Part 9: God looks at the heart not the outside appearance

Find out in this weeks video what locusts, honey and camel clothing have to do with todays topic. Be inspired and encouraged. You find the bible reference for todays topic in Matthew 3, mark 1:1-13, Luke 3:1-22 and John 1:6-13 and 19-34

Hi our friend

We hope you had a wonderful week!

Last Sunday I got to see an old friend that I haven’t seen for over 10 years since he lives in another country. I met him many years ago through a friend of his. At the time he came to the Bay Area to study and work as an intern. Going to a new place and culture is never easy and finding a connection in an area that deals with loneliness and isolation in big ways doesn’t make it easier. But through that connection through his friend who knew me and YWAM, he came by and we got to hang out. It was a blessing to me and him to have made a new friend and a blessing to him to be connected to others as well who also lived in a different country. And now 14 years later, we both are married and have children and we got to have dinner together during a layover they had in San Francisco. Friends are a blessing and often times you find them when you invite a stranger into your life who then becomes a friend! Or like the poet William Butler Yeats said: There are no strangers here; only friends you haven’t met! Who might be the stranger in your life who is just a step away from being your friend?

Also remember the topci of the video above and let us all ask God to help us that we see people the way he sees them and as well that he will reveal the things in our lives that need repentance.

God bless you

Markus, Jen and Caleb

Redemption Part 8: Redemption comes with a cost and diligent prayer

This week we are looking at 2 people that were diligent in seeking after God through prayer and fasting and in their relationship with him. And in this video we see a bit more the cost of a certain kind of redemption. Be inspired and encouraged. You find the bible reference for todays theme in Luke 3.21-38

Hi our friend

We hope you had a wonderful week!! Ours was good here. In this last season I started to help out with emails at the finance office at YWAM here in San Francisco. The team really needed help and i told them that i can help for a few hours a week in whichever way they need help. Even its only in a limited capacity I really enjoy helping out. But what really encourages me too is that God is using a gifting he has given me to help in an area of need. I want to encourage you to ask God to open doors for you to use giftings he gave you to build His Kingdom.

Also Remember to pray for Redemption for people in your life and your nation. Also spend some time to think about the cost of Redemption.

God bless you

Markus, Jen and Caleb

 

”Let all that you do be done in love”.

”Let all that you do be done in love”. 1. Corinthians 16.14 (ESV)

Every year a group of believers in Germany prays together for a bible verse as an overarch over the new year. This year it was the verse above. And what an important word for the new year. A word that, if we live it, can change a lot in this world. Be encouraged by today’s video in which we look a little more at this verse!

Hello our friend

We hope you had a wonderful first week of 2024. Jen got to celebrate her birthday this week which was wonderful! We also got to have a wonderful friend family and their 6 children over. We always feel so encouraged to see them. Hospitality is such a blessing not just to the people who receive it but also for the ones who can offer it. We want to encourage you this year to make this a regular practice in your life! It goes also very well along with the verse for the year and this weeks video “let all you do be done in love” since hospitality is for sure a part of showing love! Let us all be guided this year by the love of Jesus!

God bless you

Markus, Jen und Caleb