Today we had sunshine and 26C It was a fantastic warm day and our apartement is boiling hot we are trying to open windows (That is the ones that we can open without Angelina climbing out through them). But at least it is now summer I sure hope the weather will hold.

I always found it hard to take the image of God as my heavenly father to my heart. I didn’t want a father like mine (one who lived in a different city, that i met once a year) or like my stepfather while I was in junior high who would get drunk and through whatever…

It seems like we have two teenage girls in the house, they are up throwing a party all night and the consecently sleep in in the morning. Anja was giving us some trouble between 01:00 and 04:00 when Angelina promptly woke up and decided it was morning. She refused to fall asleep and finally at…

When our TC Hasse Kjellgren was here a little while ago, he gave us a word from Zeph 3:17 and today Stuart stood up in service and told us that God had said to him, I delight in you. This is hard to accept for a sinner like me, I look at myself and I…

So yesterday I payed my membership to Schola St. George and they are sending the package we need to start a local study group here in Riga.I am like a kid before Christmas full of excitement and expectations, I just can’t wait! The two other guys who are starting with me are not payed for…

Sometimes I wonder, we have 2000 years of exciting church history behind us with heroes of faith and rolemodels to show us how to live a fantastic Christian life. And tho I don’t think the saints should be prayed to, I think we have a lot to learn not only from the heroes of the…

Had a good day with Angelina today, Hanna is in a bit of pain and needed us out of the house, so I put Angelina in the sling and we went down to Valdemara playground (behind the art museum) where Angelina spent a whole hour pouring sand onto herself, loads of fun. After play time…

Of all my pet peeves in the world is when you reainstall firefox and all your bookmarks are gone, or moving from one computer to another and you have a different set of bookmarks than the one you are used to. I have tried syncing the bookmarks folder on different machines and it never works…

Freedom can mean alot of different things to a lot of different people. To some people freedom means not being locked up, to some it means that you are able to say whatever you want and to others it might mean to be allowed to walk with no clothes. For a Christian however it is…

So we have been a little worried that Anja hadn’t peed yet, but today as I was snugglig her up in my armas after bathing her I felt how I got all warm and fuzzy, well at least warm and wet as a flood came pouring through the towel soaking my shirt. Proudly I called…

The other day I was asked to sign a petition against the Latvian pride parade. Now since I do not understand latvian very well and couldn’t read the exact wording of the petition I might be making a chicken out of a feather here… I am told that last year a pride parade was held…

It’s 03:22 and guess what, I am not sleeping…. as per normal. Anja is holding a birthday vigil to make sure she is celebrated properly. Hanna is asleep, hopefully dreaming of cows and producong milk (as she has none yet). Angelina sleeps also and Anja is resting on my other arm, hopefully fallling asleep. Every…

As I was writing over at our family blog I am realizing that my observations on parenthood carry over to my spiritual life once again. As the list of Anjas needs is very short so is the list of our spiritual needs. Clean, Close and Calories. That is all we need. We need to have…

Oki so Hanna has been braving the contractions at home for a few hours now and we have decided to leave for the birth clinic. Keep us in your prayers as we go the last mile on this pregnancy! Next time I post I will be the proud father of two and give you all…

Yesterday I had to teach on the deepest mystery of Christian faith, the trinity. And as I prepared I realized that no matter how much I read and no matter how much I prayed I would never get beyond the words of the nicean council, “una substantia, tres personae” or in simpler language 1+1+1=1 And…

I was reading Graemes blog – uksalvationist and had to comment on it. The fact is that most initiatives to bring fire to the people of God are for young people and rightly so seeing that round 80% of all that come to Christ do so in their teens, but what is there for us…

As me and Hanna are expecting the birth of our second child any day now I have discovered what Christian life should truly be like. As I look upon my wife I see the signs clearly she is ready to give birth and it can happen any minute. However, since we do not know the…