JN Mar 2010

Week 01/03/2010 - 07/03/2010

Mon 01/03/2010: The farmer of the vineyard ... We start to study an important story today. Jesus told this story about a farmer in a vineyard to his disciples ... it is a story about grace. Let's read its beginning first: 1 God’s kingdom is like a farmer who went out early one morning (about 6am) to get some men to work in his vineyard. ... [more]

Tue 02/03/2010: JN Factory - Christian Blog: Children and Parenthood I - Some basics ... Tuesday, Mar 2, 2010. A week about children and parenthood - what do these terms mean for you? Perhaps you are young, you do not have children yet. But you have been a child, and you have parents. You have your own ideas about what good parenthood might mean. You might have very good experien... [more]

Wed 03/03/2010: JN Factory - Christian Blog: Children and Parenthood II - A personal view ... Wednesday, Mar 3, 2010. We are a family with three kids. Currently, our children are age 7, 10 and 12. Our oldest attends some secondary school which has a focus on arts. The others are in a primary school just around the corner. As a family of five we know all the ups and downs of daily life... [more]

Fri 05/03/2010: JN Factory - Christian Blog: Children and Parenthood III - Children of the Father ... Friday, Mar 5, 2010. God is called "the father" in the New Testament. Jesus calls him "my father", but he also uses the term father for God's relation to all other humans who believe in him. The central prayer in the New Testament has the title "Our Father". Many parables talk about a father a... [more]

Week 08/03/2010 - 14/03/2010

Thu 11/03/2010: JN Factory - Christian Blog: Vision for Education 1 - Education for all!... Thursday, Mar 11, 2010. What vision for education do we have? Have you ever thought about what you would like education to be like? Do you have an image or vision for education? Why should ordinary people learn how to read? If we look back into history, there were different ideas about ed... [more]

Fri 12/03/2010: JN Factory - Christian Blog: Vision for Education 2 - Find God through education?... Friday, Mar 12, 2010. We are exploring what education can and should be. Let us open our mind and our heart - and try to learn about God's idea of education, about the role eduation plays and can play for his people. We should not be bounded too much by what society has done in the past. So... [more]

Sat 13/03/2010: JN Factory - Christian Blog: Vision for Education 3 - Value beyond failures!... Saturday, Mar 13, 2010. God's education is different from what we learn in our schools and universities. In schools we learn many things - we should appreciate this education we can get today. We learn language and arts, science and crafts. But in God's education we learn grace and love, jus... [more]

Sun 14/03/2010: JN Factory - Christian Blog: Vision for Education 4 - Trust which works!... Sunday, Mar 14, 2010. Let us develop a real vision of society as it will be when the education of the Lord has started to change it. It will be a society full of acceptance and mercy. It will be a socity full of dedication, of help and trust. It will be a society full of joy and community. A... [more]

Week 15/03/2010 - 21/03/2010

Wed 17/03/2010: JN Factory - Christian Blog: Music 1 - A God of melody ... Wednesday, Mar 17, 2010. Is God surrounded by silence or by worship in the form of music? Is there classical music around him, Gregorian songs perhaps? Or more a symphony with a big string orchestra? Or maybe a rock band with drums and saxophone? We all know that God is different. We all... [more]

Thu 18/03/2010: JN Factory - Christian Blog: Music 2 - How to sing ... Thursday, Mar 18, 2010. How to sing? There are so many ways to sing a song. I can be completely overwhelmed by feelings. Sometimes that happened to me when I took part in the Sunday morning worship of our church in the UK. It was just fantastic - speaking in terms of my feelings during the s... [more]

Week 22/03/2010 - 28/03/2010

Mon 22/03/2010: JN Factory - Christian Blog: War and Peace 1 - Introduction ... Monday, Mar 22, 2010. War is a very modern topic. European states and the USA have been in several wars recently, in Iraq, in Afghanistan, in Serbia. There are various civil wars in Africa today. And there are states which suppress some part of their population and exercise some kind of cold w... [more]

Tue 23/03/2010: C-Text - Christian Blog: War and Peace 2 - Origin of War? ... Tuesday, March 23rd. What is the origin of war? Why do humans start war? Why do they carry out war? We can and should ask why war exists at all! We can say that war arises when different groups of people have different opinions about who should own what, who should have power or influence, ho... [more]

Fri 26/03/2010: C-Text - Christian Blog: War and Peace 3 - No war any more! ... Friday, March 26, 2010. There is a clear perspective of Christian thinking: peace. As people who got to know the eternal God and saviour, we do not want war any more! We have already found peace in Jesus. With and in him God has torn down the walls between him and mankind. Here, true peace ... [more]

Week 29/03/2010 - 04/04/2010

Mon 29/03/2010: C-Text - Christian Blog: Doubt 1 - Introduction ... Monday, March 29, 2010. Doubt can be a very good thing - depending on what you doubt and when you doubt. When you are on a wrong track, doubt is something good. It leads you to think about what you do. Doubt can be very good ... as a state where you try to find out what is behind something. ... [more]

Wed 31/03/2010: C-Text - Christian Blog: Doubt 2 - Doubt that there is a God ... Wednesday, March 31, 2010. Today, I would like to talk about one particular doubt. In fact, this doubt can be seen as the key doubt. It is the doubt of our time - but it is as old as mankind. The doubt I am talking about is the doubt about God's existence. Does God exist? Is God really there?... [more]