Category Archives: Love your Neighbor

Give it up

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Find out in this blog what and how!

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We hope you had an awesome week!! Ours was full of small groups, book clubs, birthday parties, encouragement group, and dinners. What a wonderful week!! We love every moment of it! We get encouraged with our neighbors as well as our church groups! Community is so important for all of us and is a place where our faith can be active! Find yours and if you cant find one build it!!

Don’t forget to release your burdens to God! Don’t carry them yourself!

God bless you

Markus and Jen

Grace in deepest Water

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Grace is so wonderful, feel inspired by this new blog!

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We hope you had an awesome week!! We are getting ready to go to Germany for 2 of my brothers weddings and a baptism of my newest nephew as well as connecting with friends and supporters. We are excited to see what God has in store for this time! We also had a great week in SF with all the different events and connecting with neighbors. We also were able to learn from a group that has a big heart to love there neighbors as well. It was really encouraging!

Remember that God and his grace is with you!

God bless you

Markus and Jen

Love your Neighbor 80-20

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Today we are talking about our favorite topic!! Find out more what exactly!

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We hope you had an awesome week!! This weekend we had the big North Beach fair. It’s a street fair that goes over a big part of the neighborhood with food, music and vendors. Its always amazing seeing how many people it attracts into our neighborhood, but also how many people from the neighborhood go. It’s a great way to connect with neighbors and to go together. If you have fairs in your area instead of going by yourself take a neighbor with you!

Jen and I are also getting ready for our time in Germany in a few weeks’ time. We are excited for it!

Remember this week that you are amazing and loved and remember to show your neighbor the same thing!

God bless you

Markus and Jen

Approach

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This weeks video blog is on how we as Christians can approach things in different ways with different results. Be encouraged and challenged.

P.s. Here is a link to the info about the film Unplanned I was talking about. I recommend seeing it, but be aware its not a light topic movie to watch!!

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Jen and I celebrated our 7 year anniversary last weekend!! I can’t believe it’s already 7 years! Time flies. We are so blessed to have each other!

Besides that our week was also good. We had 2 great small groups, time with the kids at the boys and girls club a wonderful encouragement group and just so many wonderful moments connecting with the neighborhood just to name a few. One of our highlights was our potluck for our whole street. It was a wonderful time for all the neighbors and us and it was a joint effort between us and a few neighbors. A wonderful way to build community! My friend also bought me (Markus) a plane ticket to see him up in Seattle for 2 days which was an amazing time too!!

We want to encourage you this week to stand up for the things you believe in but do it with an approach of love not with an approach of being right!!

God bless you

Markus and Jen

Outlook

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I give thanks to Adonai with all my heart
I will tell about all your wonderful deeds
I will be glad and exult in you
I will sing praises to your name Elyon.
Psalm 9. 1-2

Recently I was reading Psalm 9 and I love especially the beginning part. David shows us here the right outlook and perspective. In the moment he thanks God for things he did in his life and then also tells about his wonderful deeds his outlook is changing. It is moving away from maybe an outlook or perspective of fear or something else he is facing to God who has all the answers. While writing most of the Psalms David is going through some challenges in life. But instead of just looking what he can see with his eyes, he is looking at the things he cannot see. He is speaking courage to himself by reminding himself that he is on the side of the Most High!

So outlook is very important. Whatever hard time you might face in life it’s important that you are not just looking at the things you can see but choose to thank God and remind yourself of the amazing things he did in your life and the life of others. You can watch how your courage is rising and your perspective will shift. Your focus falls more on God and your relationship with him and not so much on the issue. And in that moment God can then give you courage to face whatever you need to face.

So the great thing is when you tell neighbors about the wonderful deeds of God in your life that opens up conversation and gives opportunity to share the good news. So start to give him thanks right now and start talking about the wonderful deeds!!

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We hope your week was wonderful!! We had our quarterly meeting with bay area ministries which was encouraging. It really helps when you spend time with others and hear their victories and struggles. That is why God always meant for us to be in a community. Even from our first day on earth he placed us in our family community. Let’s bring our neighbors into a loving community and let them see how God can move through it!! On that note we also had our wonderful neighbor brunch which was super encouraging. We love everyone who comes and they all became a community to us and to each other. So it makes a difference!!

So don’t forget starting today to thank God for the community you have or the one He wants to build through you and build up your courage!!

God bless you

Markus and Jen