Patrik Olterman
It is official!
Read more: It is official!Today the territorial candidates council met in england. They decided that Me and Hanna are now accepted for training at William Booth College starting September 2007 with the “Witnesses for Christ”‘ Even if I partly expected this outcome it is still a load off to finally have the official answer, now we can move ahead…
WMA Camp.
Read more: WMA Camp.As the grand finale of the SSG studygroup Riga semester we arrange a three day Fiore weekend in the marvelous latvian countryside. It will be a retreat with good food, fantastic teaching held by Colin Hatcher and lots of fun filled fellowship. We will also open up the doors for the rest of the Latvian…
Reclaiming Eros
Read more: Reclaiming ErosReading through the encyclical letter of Benedictus PP XVI that was Brought to my attention by my good friend Björn. It is very long and deep and I will probably come back to this letter in later posts, it takes more than one read for a simple man like me. I do however agree with…
The king of Kings bled
Read more: The king of Kings bledThe king of rock, they say lived The king of lizards is surely dead, The King of Kings bled. -Audio Adrenaline, I am not the king We are watching the first season of Rome and while it is vile in that it very graphicaly portrays the sexual perversion and the pgan worship of the time,…
The only good thing in me is Jesus
Read more: The only good thing in me is JesusWhen Hanna preached in Riga one she said many things that where good but this just stuck with me and it really resonated with my own thoughts. Sometimes I feel like the only good thing in me is Jesus Christ! I don’t know about you but I can really realate to that, there are days…
WSD – Womens self defense course returns
Read more: WSD – Womens self defense course returnsLast night we kicked of the WSD – women self defense course here in Riga, back by popular demand. Some people have been bugging me every week since September to get it going and now finally we have. Twelve brave young women came to be trained to be warriors, not bad for a first time,…
Calebs cadre on the move!
Read more: Calebs cadre on the move!So yesterday it happened the finale of our soldiers courses. nine soldiers where enrolled and two adherents where welcomed into the Riga one fellowship. It was a glorious day! The service was fantastic, the worship was heavy with the spirit of God and His presence could be felt in every note of worship coming from…
Twitter
Read more: TwitterI was invited to join Twitter last night. So i surfed in and found a page where you with 140 characters can explain what you are doing right now and get an RSS feed of it. WHO CARES! Really, I just didn’t get it. But I joined anyway, this was to absurd a community not…
Bauska WMA
Read more: Bauska WMAOff to Bauska to teach another full day of WMA. Hope to Blogg about it later.
What is Love? (Spiritual discipline part 5)
Read more: What is Love? (Spiritual discipline part 5)Throughout my life I’ve explored the concept of Love and found that the concept is always growing and changing before ones eyes the closer one looks. In the beginning I thought love only to mean romance (( A very vague concept of fluffy feelings, pink clouds and roses, more a state of infatuation that has…
WSD level one testing.
Read more: WSD level one testing.Tuesday we had the first graduation of the WSD ((Warrior Self Defense, my own school of martial arts)) Riga group. This graduation was supposed to be held long time ago but due to injuries, illness and childbirth it was delayed. The four students up for their first test didn’t know what hit them as I…
Amazon power
Read more: Amazon powerSaturday I held a WSD demo at the Salvation Army womans day in Bauska. I was there in capacity of self defense teacher to maybe spark some interest towards our leaders day in may where we will be dealing with the subjects of violence, self defense and working in a hostile world. Hanna was supposed…
Let Love rule… (Spiritual discipline part 4)
Read more: Let Love rule… (Spiritual discipline part 4)Love, one of the most abused words of the english language, it almost slips of the tounge without thought or emotion needing to back it up. We say I love you almost as easily as we say I love pizza or I love spring. Sometimes we make it a big deal and sometimes we bounce…
WSD in Bauska
Read more: WSD in BauskaToday I am running a women selfdefense demo at the womens day in bauska. Hanna was supposed to d anAerobic pass as well but as it turns out the whole family is underthe weather and therefore need to stay home and rest. I drew the shortest straw and go to Bauska.
A tentative theology of hope.
Read more: A tentative theology of hope.One of the things that came out of our four day study of Jonah was that sometimes we as Christians seems to treat God like a well trained pet that does tricks for us. We have ready recepies of how to get God to do certain things in our lives. Whereas non Christians tend to…
Four days of Jonah
Read more: Four days of JonahI am currently doing a four day course on the book of Jonah held by Stuart old testamentteacher from WBC. It is very interesting and I have foundso many new nsights in this oddlittle bible book. Yes, I will be sharing these later!
On discipline … (Spiritual discipline part 3)
Read more: On discipline … (Spiritual discipline part 3)Discipline, it is such a sullied word. In todays language it carries a negative tone, a tone of forbidding, joystealing, punishing character. As a martial artist I have a different view of the word. Through many long years of training I have come to realize that discipline is the only way to master an art.…
Angelinas Three years bash
Read more: Angelinas Three years bashAngelina turned three years old, and had a party worthy of a princess, dressed in here Belle dress she hosted the princess party of the year! The puzzles where the big hit and she hasn’t really gotten interested in the fancy bike we bought her, but come summer I hope she will be swishing about…
I would do anything… (Spiritual discipline part 2)
Read more: I would do anything… (Spiritual discipline part 2)We all have heroes of faith, people we look up to that are giants compared to ourselves. Many times have I looked at these giants and said I would do anything to be like him or her. It reminds me of teh commentSteve Martin made at the Oscars a few yeras back. Looking out over…
Visits
Read more: VisitsWe got our good friend Bea visiting from Sweden. At our assessment conference in Sweden we made friends with many of the cadets Bea being on of them. Now she is here visiting and we are thrilled!
The race (Spiritual discipline part 1)
Read more: The race (Spiritual discipline part 1)There is a race on, theres always a race. Bring a bunch of people together and the game is on. Who is the best, who is the greatest who is number one. It is true outside the church and inside the church. Who is the holiest, who is the best preacher, who has the deepest…
Those pentacostals
Read more: Those pentacostalsReading the swedish Christian newspaper dagen today I found this article. It states that the goal of this years evangelist week is to “Reinstate (or maybe reintroduce) God and open up the churches for more people” It’s incredible what those pentacostals can come up with…. the nerve, to invite God to church. All joking aside,…
SSG Riga arranging Fiore weekend
Read more: SSG Riga arranging Fiore weekendOn the 29th of June SSG Riga will arrange a full weekend of Fioresque training and swordplay. The seminars and workshops will mainly be led by Colin Hatcher on of the SSG Senior Instructors from the bay area branch in america. Colin Hatcher is currently working on an in depth study of Fiores dagger work…
The power of words
Read more: The power of wordsOn the Swedish Salvation army youth community Blood and Fire a discussion has come up if there is literature that is dangerous for Christians to read it seems the concensus is that it depends on who is reading it and how impressionable you are. I tried to phraze a response but it turned out to…
Blood and fire in Self defence course
Read more: Blood and fire in Self defence courseI am just back in Riga from a two day trip to Stockholm to teach a self defence course for FASI (Salvation Army Social Institute) and to tie up some loose ends, like preparing to sell the car etc. Preparing the course I made some amazing discoveries. The first one being that I could teach…
