It is not easy being a man in todays world, sometimes it seems like the whole world conspires to make it as hard as possible for us. In a world like this is you’re not a good man by accident, It takes hard work and good support. But good support doesn’t grow on trees that…

I have realized that all this blogging takes time, and I cannot possibly keep up with three blogs, so I have decided to make it into one and use my categories more carefuly. I hope you wont mind, you can still get the individual blogs by their feeds, here are the links so you can…

This friday I was asked to speak at Riga 1 Play scheme, a one week daycamp for the children connected to the church and Patvarums. Every day of the week they had been watching a part of the Narnia movie and talking about it, I was asked to talk about the armor of God From…

For as long as I remember, I have felt a pull to the great cities and tho I love the quiet of the country side for a brief visit I could never envision living there. This week while I was out driving through the pastoral landscape of Latvia I had a strange thought. So what…

I am soooooo excited, thanks to my Sensei and friend Colin Hatcher I am going to WMAV 2005. I am so looking forward to this. It is the Swordplay event of the year. All the best fighters there to teach us how to swing steel. And I get to spend a few days with my…

I was having a youth get together in Bauska last night, and I asked them why they where attending the corps, Why they where coming to the youth meetings, the answers where no different from what I would get in any other youth group but they still sent a chill down my spine. I have…

I was called to preach in Dobele church of Christ today, and I spent hours agonising over what to preach. Knowing nothing about the church I was about to preach in it felt like I was flying blind. I asked God what to preach on and Gods answer was, do what you always do… Preach…

As we are starting our new Christian martial arts school, we have decided to let go of the eastern martial arts and take up western martial arts. There are several martial arts systems created in the western world and one of the most successful ones have been penned down by [[Fiore dei Liberi]] in his…

After what seemed like forever (eight days) my Sword arrived. I’ts a Hanwei – practical Longsword and I am surprised by the quality of the blade and mostly the wooden scabbard that came with it, The hilt is perfect length and it balances perfectly just about two hands above the hilt. For the price I…

It’s a shame that the gold dragon requires magic or I’d have swung the “knight dragon” But I guess I am not yet as refined as a knight or a palading but have to be labeled a mere warrior, not that I shun that title. If it on the Other hand is a pern dragon…

God told me last night that I was being lazy, to much talk and to little hockey as we would say in Sweden. Anyhow, I was reminded once again that we are at war! And as soldiers of light we need to attack the darkness at every chance we get. God is a man of…

Yesterday we had a fantastic celebration of Jani with the Riga 1 youth, started of with grilling and a grand meal followed by games that we all enjoyed… Then followed by movies until breakfast (yes a lot of movies). At one time we watched Dress to Kill, my favorite Ediie Izzard DVD and as a…

Last night I was watching an episode of firefly. In this episode River the over intelligent sister of the doc finds Rev. Books bible, Book is the shepherd (Priest) on the crew of the firefly. River starts reading the bible and finds that it has flaws and that it doesn’t make sense so she starts…

We thought Angelina was quick when it came to physical development, but it might be that her sister has her beat. In her first minutes Anja lift her head up. On day two she fixed her eyes on her parents. and now not even three weeks she crawled of the towel she was lying on…

Twice today God has impressed this upon my heart, first this morning seemingly out of the blue, I heard God say these words. Then as me and Hanna sat through a preliminary interview to start of the process of applying to officers training I had to quote this word. There are so many Christians and…

Paul the apostle writes that we are called to be ambassadors of Christ. a job that we best take seriously. We do not belong on this planet and when we head back home we want as many with us as possible because this titanic of an earth is sinking rapidly. Today I had to talk…

We are a Schola St. George study group (pending the others membership fees tho). So from now with some sporadic training in the summer we will start in earnest end of august and hopefully finish of our elephant class by late spring/ early summer 2007. This is terribly exciting, I am just waiting for the…

So yesterday we spent the day at the Zoo and today we went to Lido. With Elma, Rebecca, Hanna, Nadja, Angelina, Anja and me we where quite a large group. Angelina was in a good mood as we got there enjoyed 20 minutes in the jumping castle before heading of to the playground where she…

The body follows…. At least that is what I teach in my martial arts class. Today we where at the Riga zoo wich is always a delightful experience. When Angelina was taking her afternoon nap and Anja was getting her umpteenth meal of the day we where sitting down by the zoo playground. One little…

Chivalry is dead someone said when I brought it up. And with it came the death of ethics and morality. Well death doesn’t bother me much since I worship the King of kings the Lord of Life. If chivalry is dead we just have to bring it back. Since I was a little boy I…

I just won an auction on ebay to get me a beautiful practical longsword for a third of the actual retail price! I am extatic, now I just need to figure out how to ship it from England to Riga. The sword itself is 44″ and a perfect sword for practicing Fiore di Libre. I…