Monthly Archives: April 2019

Superheroes and your Identity

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You probably ask yourself what superheroes and your identity have to do with each other. Find out in this video Blog!

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God loves you without end, never forget that!!

This week we had many opportunities to spend time with neighbors and let Gods love shine practically through us. We also had many unplanned Conversations and Moments with neighbors which are sometimes the best moments!! Leave a little bit time in your day for those spontaneous moments so that you don’t have to miss them because of a lack of time!

Jen and I also had personally a great week and a refreshing weekend!

Don’t forget to let God show you your true identity, by spending time with him and studying his word, in more and more ways!

God bless you

Markus and Jen

Great is thy faithfulness

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I don’t know if you ever felt that way, but sometimes God encourages you through the songs you sing in worship. Recently our worship team at church played the old song Great is thy faithfulness. While singing that song God showed me a in a deeper way his faithfulness in my life. It’s amazing how God can use a song.

When I looked up the poem the song is based on, I found out that it was written in 1923 by Thomas Chisolm. Thomas grew up very poor with bad health and basic education. But then, later on, he became a teacher and later a minister which he both had to stop because of his health. But in all of those circumstances, he wrote about Gods faithfulness. He did not base it on what the world could give him but solely based it on God himself.

1923 is just a few years before the great depression hit the world. I wonder how many people felt encouraged through that time to keep their focus on Gods faithfulness and not the one the world can provide by just reading that poem. I bet many people read those lines and put there trust back into God.

Later on, the song was played at big crusades of Billy Graham were thousands of people would give there life to Jesus. And now in the year, 2019 God encourages me through this song.

I’m sure that Thomas didn’t think his little poem would turn someday in a song and then would impact many people all over the place. He probably just wrote a poem to be encouraged and reminded about Gods faithfulness even in hard times. But God used it way bigger then he could ever imagine.

We want to encourage you with that song and story that God is also faithful in your life. Make sure to remind yourself daily about that. Also, step into the things He has for you and be faithful in them. You never know if there will be a song or something else that he puts on your heart that will encourage or bring change to people almost 100 years later.

 

Great is Thy faithfulness, O God my Father
There is no shadow of turning with Thee
Thou changest not, Thy compassions they fail not
As Thou hast been, Thou forever wilt be

Chorus:
Great is Thy faithfulness
Great is Thy faithfulness
Morning by morning, new mercies I see
All I have needed Thy hands hath provided
Great is Thy faithfulness, Lord unto me

Summer and winter and springtime and harvest
Sun, moon, and stars in their courses above
Join with all nature in manifold witness
To Thy great faithfulness, mercy, and love

Pardon for sin and a peace that endureth
Thine own great presence to cheer and to guide
Strength for today, and bright hope for tomorrow
Blessings all mine, with ten thousand beside

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We hope you had a wonderful time celebrating Easter last weekend!! He is risen!! We love this time of the year since it can really open up conversation about our faith. With all the church services and different events people are more exposed to the truth and are more curious what it is about. Join us in praying this week for people that don’t know Jesus yet that they have an opportunity to hear the gospel in a way that they can understand.

Remember this week that whatever God puts on your heart do it, it can change your life and the lives of others forever!!

God bless you

Markus and Jen

Darkness lost its power

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In a few days we are celebrating Easter. When you read through the gospels and the days leading up to Easter you see so much pain, betrayal and hurt. Everything seems to go down and no hope is left. The disciples followed Jesus for many years and now one of their own betrays him. Judas, even after hearing and seeing Jesus do miracles for many years chooses money over his friend and sells him to the ones who want to kill him. The rest of the disciples lose all hope and perspective for life after Jesus is arrested. I can’t imagine how that felt. For many years their lives main focus was Jesus. All they did was follow him and let him lead to whatever needs to be done. But now it is over. They are lucky that people don’t go after them as well and want to kill them too. When Pilate then gives the crowd the choice to free Jesus or a criminal prisoner hope comes back to the disciples. He must free him they think. The crowd would never choose the criminal above Jesus. But a moment later all hope is gone, the crowd chooses the criminal and asks for Jesus to be killed. A short time after they see him one last time at the cross before he would die. All the words are forgotten that Jesus told them that he would come back, that the reason he came is to be a sacrifice so we can all be reconciled with God. In the time of sadness, all memory of those words vanished. Sad and depressed all of them leave.

If the story would end here, we would have a very sad ending. It would mean Jesus didn’t fulfill what he came for. It would mean that the enemy wins and that all hope is gone. Last week I talked about that if the vision didn’t become reality it’s not the end yet. And that is the good news about Easter!! It doesn’t end at the cross!!

A few days later a big gravestone is rolled away. The first ones that come to the grave think that somebody stole the body of Jesus. They still didn’t believe the words he said. But then Jesus shows up and everything changes. Over time all his disciples and friends see him again. All of them realize that the words he said before became a reality. He overcame death and made a way back to the father. Darkness lost its power. Jesus is victorious. Out of that victory, the disciples found hope again and shared the good news about Jesus with the whole world. The good news that whoever believes in Him shall not perish but have eternal life. A story that started so dark and sad ends with the greatest victory. A victory that is as true today as it was yesterday and as it will be tomorrow. Whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life!

Like the disciples brought it into the whole world let us bring it across the street to our neighbors and all the other people God placed in your life! Let us not keep this message of hope away from a world that desperately needs hope, a hope not for a moment, but a hope that will never go away. Remember in this Easter time how loved you are by Father God!!

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I love this time before Easter when we have the opportunity to think about the greatest, selfless man who ever walked the earth. It’s a time to reflect on how loved we are! We want to encourage you to think about this week! We had many events this week leading up to Easter with our church as well as in our neighborhood. It was wonderful. Pray with us for people in our surroundings to have this week an encounter with Jesus and his love for them.

We want to wish you a blessed and happy Easter!! Remember how loved you are!!

God bless you

Markus and Jen

Not the end yet

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Find out what this blog is about and be inspired!!

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We hope you had a fantastic week!! Are you fasting something in this Easter time? I’m fasting TV Shows and that opened up a little bit extra time. The extra time with God was encouraging!

Our last week was interesting since i was sick for a few days and we had to cancel a few things. But Jen was able to go to all of her things. But Saturday we were able to have our brunch which was as usual encouraging. Im feeling a lot better which is great!! So now we can get back to normal life!

Don’t forget this week that if the vision god gave you hasn’t become reality, its not the end yet! Have a blessed week!!

God bless you

Markus and Jen

Giftings and what they are there for

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Giftings are so important so be challenged through this blog!

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How was your week and did you have some wonderful times with God? We hope so!! In the last week we had a few events out of the ordinary like a fundraiser and then we got invited to a private piano concert in the house of a friend. It was amazing seeing a pianist playing a long piece without the music in front of him. We were blown away. When we use our gifting’s for others they can multiply and bless many people.

Jen and I are doing well too. We are enjoying the beautiful weather here in sf after all the rain we desperately needed. The only thing with all the sunshine is that allergies are in full bloom so I keep having a runny nose and a really bad cough.

We are praying that you have an amazing week and make sure to use the gifting’s God gave you to bless others!

God bless you

Markus and Jen