Thursday, April 6, 2006

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Passion today


I've just come back from the CT service. Now during the holidays, are less people in the parish church as usual, only between 300 and 350
Today was my theme: From folk hero to the defendants - had to die Why did Jesus.
Who wants to hear it, it can be downloaded in a few days of the CT website ( www.christus-treff.org ).

Jesus had to die.
Why?

This from the preface of my book "provocation Cross

It's strong stuff, which imposes on the New Testament: The execution of a man who described entirely innocent, was in great detail. I find provocative.

It's a bit rich that Jesus of Nazareth was not trying to evade. He was aware of the way to the Cross, retreat knowingly and without. The find I unbelievable.

It's hard the same people who had benefited from him, and it is now contrary to the Roman occupiers extradited so that they enforced the death sentence. I find that common.

It's outrageous that Jesus prays on the cross for those who had all this debt. It keeps the love that has marked his life, by all until the end. I think that's unique.

It's beyond imagination that a whipped, the wooden beams nailed man who did for all to see his last breath, left on the third day death behind her ha t like an old dress that no longer needed is. I find that incredible.

It's challenging, that until today there are people who claim on real and tangible way to be with this man of the Cross in contact. He lives, they claim, and takes an interest in anything that happens. I find nachprüfenswert "

I will consciously in the next few days to think about what that means for me

And for this world, unfortunately the reality in many places of the subject." Characterized Passion ".

eg in Darfur, which continues to be burned before villages, women raped, children are sold into slavery,

and in many places.

For me it's comforting to know that Jesus has experienced the harsh realities themselves.

We Christians do not believe in an abstract God, not a philosophical idea of the highest good, but to a Creator made man who humbles himself up in the bloody reality of Verbrechertods on the cross into it.

this wounded God I can trust my wounded life.

Here is healing possible, because here there is a savior.

Roland

Tuesday, March 21, 2006

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Munich, Marburg and more

Here I am again - write this in Munich, where I help out for a few days at ProChrist.
Munich is a great city and I'm moving next Evenings also met many nice people.
For nearly two weeks we are back from Africa. There it was excellent, unfortunately I can not trust the details to the blog.
We had some over 40 degrees, and in February, there was the drop in temperature rather crass.
It was great to meet our friends again in Marburg.
I'm just here to make two book manuscripts finished, look forward to the result. The
in brief - only a message that I'm back and I have Internet access.

Oh, what I am, our new CT Magazine inContact with the theme "Risers - Breaks is.
Who has not, can order it in the CT office Steinweg 12 Marburg.

On the back I wrote a small text that I insert here again.

God bless all who read this

Roland

aufbruch

if blocked what was yesterday
and what is now the view

the
what will come
could be something where we should go
is

then aufbruch
just a word
a dream
a yearning

but we are too lazy
too comfortable
too vain
break to really

for departure hurts
familiar is left behind
the house is broken
in the We have lived so long

but even God has a tent ready for us
can start with where we
a dwelling place for the meantime

because only that it is
a pilgrimage on the way we
have here no abiding city
but we seek

the son of man had no
place afterwards he could have put all

we have more
donated time
gegnadetes

live but let us enjoy than we would not use
without possessing
and us
forward but also share and re-give

because the best is yet
when the king at the end the doors open and say

are welcome
her blessed of the Lord!

c. Roland Werner December 2005

Tuesday, January 31, 2006

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Boston bed and laid

Here I am again, after more than a month!
crashed my first PC, then I was two weeks for teaching in the U.S., and now I was almost a week in bed.
But I live again, and I am happy to travel on Saturday for five weeks in my favorite African country, like every year at this time.
Christ in the here-meeting it is great, who wants to find out about it: I recommend the blog of Andy Goodacre: lifeincolour.com.

Boston was cool, I taught an intensive course at a theological college - at Gordon Conwell Theological Seminary. Topic: Muslim-Christian relations through the centuries. Sounds harmless, but it has in itself, for these very issues today are top issues in the world.

burn We still too much in its own juices and do not recognize that the challenge of the future the question of Islam. The Europeans - even Christians - will face the question: Why did Christ stay and not simply become a Muslim?
This is still exciting.
Since we need a new culture of theological conviction among us Christians.

Well, I will instruct anyone that I thought of only pretending.

the way, Gordon Conwell is a great educational institution and the students there, I was very impressed with their combination of thinking faith and passion for the cause of God.

What am also pleased: In two to three weeks and you get the new CT magazine, year after a long pause.

With articles by Gottfried Müller, Elke Werner, Steve nation, Christina Brudereck, John Peters, Dietmar penny house, Savo Ivanic and and and ...

inContact is the part, and it is a terrific platform for thinking and communication.

In CT, we now have four worship services every week, next Thursday in the Parish Church - 20 clock - two on Sunday Tomorrow 10 clock and 12 clock - and English in the evening 19:30.

The Church is emerging!

I think good. If

roland for today

Be blessed