Many years ago the movie superman returns was released. At one part in the movie Lois Lane wrote an article about how the world doesn’t need a Savior and Superman sees it. Shortly after that this conversation takes place:

Superman: Listen. What do you hear?
Lois Lane: Nothing.
Superman: I hear everything. You wrote that the world doesn’t need a savior. But everyday I hear people crying for one.

Intended or not the movie speaks the truth. Many people in the world are struggling. Many people are looking for someone or something that can help them through this time. Why are super hero movies so popular? Because people look at the heroes and it stirs up hope in them. Every person in the world wants a savior if they know it or not.

In a few days we celebrate Easter, the time when Jesus became the greatest hero of all time. He went so far to sacrifice his life for people that didn’t even deserve it Romans 5.8 just so they can be saved and reconciled with the father. Wow that is good news. Guess what: Each of us is one of them. And each person on this planet that doesn’t know him yet is one of them as well. So let’s use this Easter time to share with people the good news. There is a Savior out there who can really save you for good. Not just for the 80 or 90 years we live on this planet, no but for eternity. He is alive!!

Ask yourself:

1. Who is the person or people you want to share with?
2. Ask the father to show you a way on how to share it with them so they can understand.

Have a blessed and happy Easter!! He is alive!!

Hey our friend

Our week in San Francisco was great. We had a prayer time with a friend, I (Markus) was in a board meeting for the base, we had a neighborhood watch meeting and also celebrated the birthday of one of our friends. But of course we had all the usual things as well, but I don’t write about those as much since you already heard of them. This week is Easter. If you get a chance watch the movie Son of God to get your focus and mind towards what really matters. Jen and I really liked it.

Would you like to partner with us in a financial way? Right now we are in need of $1.300 more on a monthly base to cover all our cost. Pray about joining our team in this way! You can do it with any amount you would like. Find out more on how by clicking on this link. If you personally cant join us in this way could you share it with family and friends who might be interested in joining. Thank you for your help. Thank you to each one of you who is already part of our team. You are a true blessing!

Share the good news of Easter with someone this week!

Have a blessed week

Markus and Jen

Next Sunday is Palm Sunday. Palm Sunday is the day when Jesus rode into Jerusalem on a donkey while being celebrated by many. They ripped down pieces of palm trees to cover the streets to make it even more triumphal. But shortly after that probably the same people screamed out loud to have Jesus crucified. Why? Because He didn’t fulfill the expectations they had on him. Their idea was to have a life of freedom from the romans through his Kingship. But God had a way greater plan, eternal freedom. But if you are in a hard season in life like the people in that time, it is sometimes really hard to look at the bigger picture and its easy to be moved by circumstances.

But how can we change that? We need to keep looking at God and stay in close relationship with Him. Jesus said it himself I only do the things that I see the father doing (John 5.19). But the only way to do that is a daily connection with the Father.

Let us ask ourselves those questions.

1. What are things we are expecting of God?
2. What are things that didn’t come through the way we planned it? Did we ask God why?
3. Did we ask Him about the bigger picture?

It is important to ask those questions and to know what we stand for. If we don’t, it can be really easy to sway us away. Let’s not lose our focus on the things that really matter!

Hey our friend

We hope you had a  great week. We had a great German night, a wonderful game night, a celebration for 2 years encouragement group, a big fundraiser and a North Beach Team Staff Day. It was an eventful week, but amazing. Only 2 more weeks till Easter and we are making plans to celebrate it with our friends from our building. Maybe invite some friends over to your house for your Easter Celebration.

Would you like to partner with us in a financial way? Right now we are in need of $1.300 more on a monthly base to cover all our cost. Pray about joining our team in this way! You can do it with any amount you would like. Find out more on how by clicking on this link. If you personally cant join us in this way could you share it with family and friends who might be interested in joining. Thank you for your help. Thank you to each one of you who is already part of our team. You are a true blessing!

Refocus this week and make sure to keep your eyes on the bigger picture!

Have a blessed week

Markus and Jen

I recorded a video blog a few weeks ago which is a great follow up to last weeks blog on deeply unconditional loved. It’s about how we can love others in a creative way so they are able to receive it.

2 Action Steps:

1. Ask God to point out 2 or 3 people you know to love on this week. Ask God how you can show them love in a way that they can receive it
2. Go and do what God told you to do with those specific people!

Hey our friend

If you have a busy week it goes by so fast. We had an Evaluation Meeting for all the YWAM ministries, a dinner with YWAM friends who came to visit and 1 who is leaving, a movie night and a brunch at our house with many friends from the neighborhood, a teaching time with the DTS students and all the usual things we are doing. It is so wonderful to see how through all those things more and more people connect with each other and more and more community starts to exist.

Would you like to partner with us in a financial way? Right now we are in need of $1.300 more on a monthly base to cover all our cost. Pray about joining our team in this way! You can do it with any amount you would like. Find out more on how by clicking on this link. If you personally cant join us in this way could you share it with family and friends who might be interested in joining. Thank you for your help. Thank you to each one of you who is already part of our team. You are a true blessing!

Remember this week to love 2 or 3 people in a way in which they can receive it.

Have a blessed week

Markus and Jen

God loves you unconditionally, as you are and not as you should be, because nobody is as they should be.   Brennan Manning

At the beginning of last week I caught food poisoning and was trapped in bed for 2 days.  So what do you do if you cant do much, you start reading the books that you planned to read for a long time. One of the books that a friend recommended me a long time ago was the book All is Grace which is a biography of the life of Brennan Manning. When I started reading it, I had a hard time to put it back down. The book shares a life of struggle and hardship in the most real way I probably ever read a Christian book. It made me interested in hearing him. And I found a sermon he gave on YouTube. One of the things he said was the quote from the top about love. I heard so many times said that god loves us, but with hearing him say it in that way it spoke to my heart deeper than ever before.  It made me cry because I was so overwhelmed with his deep love.

God loves us no matter which part of life we are in. If we just made the biggest mistake, or if we just had the greatest breakthrough in our faith, He loves us. And he does not love us because we have it all together and we are perfect, no he loves us just because he does. The difference in those lines is that they don’t create shame in you, instead they encourage you to become a better person because out of that true love the father has for you. But you can be secure that you are loved even if you don’t become a better person right away. Some of us might think now, so what, this encourages us to stay where we are at and not move away from our failure. I actually believe it does the total opposite. If you are excited about a marathon and your biggest supporter your spouse stands right there at the track and cheers you up, you are more likely pulling out those last pieces of strength to win, but you also know even if you lose its not a big deal since your spouse still loves you. On the opposite if you run the race and you are at the last part and you have a spouse that tells you if you don’t win you are such a failure, you might also pull out your last strength. But why? You just do it to prove you are not a failure and you are worthy to be loved. But that is not the love the father showed and Paul described in Romans 5.8. Christ died for us while we were still sinners.

I want to encourage you to ponder on this for you personally. And be real with yourself. I feel God really wants to speak to many of us through that. And the great thing with that is, when we know his love in that way we will have also more love and grace for others in our life. Maybe watch the video sermon I added at the end of this blog or the short version of his sermon from the movie Ragamuffin. May it speak deep to your heart and bring you to a new level in your relationship with the father!

Hey our friend

We hope you had an outstanding week. Last Wednesday we had the graduation for our Fall DTS Students. All of them made such a huge impact in North Beach through their Prayer walks as well as through serving at the boys and girls club. Pray that God will guide them in this coming season to use the gifting’s he has given them to bring change to wherever they go. But also pray that they will grow even closer to Him then they have been in the last few months.

God is so amazing, this year our cost went up with increase in rent, health insurance and other living costs in San Francisco, but since the beginning of the year we have already seen a big increase in monthly support. Right now we are still in need of $1.300 to cover our total monthly cost. Thank you to each one of you who is already part of our team. If you are not, but you would like to join our financial support team, find out more by clicking on this link. Thank you for considering us.

Know this week that you are deeply loved.

Have a blessed week

Markus and Jen

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