Monthly Archives: December 2024

Test Everything

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Todays video is about testing everything from 1. Thessalonians 5.21. Be encouraged and let this be a leading verse in your life in 2025.

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We hope you had a wonderful Christmas week!

 

We had a great Christmas week here in San Francisco. For Christmas day, we filled the table with neighbor friends and baked a turkey with various side dishes. The guests also brought side dishes and desserts. After everyone was nicely stuffed from the meal, we showed the short film The Shepards from the series The Chosen, which tells the Christmas story from the perspective of the shepherds. It was great. How was your Christmas?

One last thing at the end related to the video: We want to encourage you to test everything that you let into your life with the word of god and if it aligns with things god was already speaking and highlighting to you.

We would also like to use this opportunity to wish you a super blessed start to 2025 and look forward with you to the things that God has for you in the new year!

God bless you

Markus, Jen and Caleb

 

 

Merry Christmas 2024

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“You will keep him in perfect peace, whose mind is stayed on you, because he trusts in you.” Isaiah 26:3

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We first want to wish you a blessed and merry Christmas. We hope you feel encouraged by the message of the video about Isaiah 26.3.

Also this is the link to the Chosen Christmas Episode about the birth of Jesus. Be encouraged and blessed by it!!  https://watch.thechosen.tv/video/184683594479

God bless you

Markus, Jen and Caleb

Gospel Carriers: Georg Fried(e)rich Händel

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This weeks Gospel Carrier is Georg Fried(e)rich Händel. He wrote a very famous piece of music that still points people to Jesus. Be inspired!

Hi our friend

We hope you had a wonderful week!!

This week we were encouraged several times about how God does wonderful things through small conversations and encouragement. Some told us about moments in the past when they were encouraged and found hope through us. Often we don’t hear about the results of what small acts of kindness out of love can do, but when we do we are encouraged and reassured about how important they are. We want to encourage you, especially this Christmas season, to do small things out of love for those around you.

We hope you got inspired by Haendel and his masterpiece the Messiah. Ask God and yourself what your gifting is. When you know, start using the gift for building God’s kingdom and let Jesus guide you in how.

God bless you

Markus, Jen and Caleb

Messenger

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Todays video is about Messengers. Find out more in the video!

Hi our friend

We hope you had a wonderful Christmas week!

“Your card and the brownies brought us so much joy for this pre-Christmas season. Thank you so much,” said one of our neighbors. Every year in December, we bake about 100 brownies and include a Christmas card with an encouraging message. We then give them to all our neighbor friends on our hill. We just did that last week and saw all the smiles it brought, especially when Caleb wished everyone a merry Christmas. It’s a simple action that brings a lot of joy to us and many others. Baking 100 brownies is a lot, but how about baking something for your 4 or 5 neighbors who live directly next to you and writing an encouraging card? In this way, you can bring a lot of encouragement to your neighborhood in a simple way.

One last question at the end related to the video: Who does God send you to as a messenger to bring his good news?

God bless you

Markus, Jen and Caleb

The boot tradition

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In Germany we have a boot tradition for December 6th. Today we want to talk about the man who it goes back to. Be encouraged.

Hi our friend

We hope you had a wonderful week!!

We had a wonderful Thanksgiving week here in San Francisco. A table is so much better when you have people around it and that is exactly what we did on Thanksgiving Day.  We hosted a traditional Thanksgiving meal and had neighbors sit together with us around our table. We had a wonderful time together and it gave everyone there a feeling of family. We are so thankful that our new apartment can host a big dining table and more important than that people that can sit around it. We want to encourage you to start thinking about Christmas and who, of the people who live around you, you want to invite to sit around your table!

And 2 more things at the end about the video: Ask yourself who has a need for help and then help them in a way that they don’t know who did it! Stand up for someone who can’t stand up for themselves.

Markus, Jen and Caleb