Patrik Olterman
Anjas first steps
Read more: Anjas first stepsAfter a month of wobbling Anja is gaining her elephant, she has balance and control! Watch her walk here.
Graceful power.
Read more: Graceful power.I was reading Brian Price’s Boook of the Tournament this morning. There was this passage talking about why we do what we do, that is suit up in full armor and fight in the chivalric tournament. And aside from fighting for the romance and the dream, aside from honoring the chivalric form we have the…
For all of you about to rock, I salute you!
Read more: For all of you about to rock, I salute you!Last night when Hanna went to her small group I didn’t know what to do with myself I was bored… When I asked Hanna what to do she said whatever you do, have fun! So I decided to blow the evening off with something fun. I Downloaded [[Frets on Fire]]1 and hoped it would have…
WSD website go live!
Read more: WSD website go live!After a lot of work the WSD website goes live. This site is to inform, recruit and gather the WSD – Warrior Self Defence martial arts school. This is a great moment for the school as this marks the finish of the conversion from a [[MMA]] to a [[WMA]] WSD now invites for study groups…
The similarities between Christianity and open source
Read more: The similarities between Christianity and open sourceBeing a full time missionary and a certified Linux proffessional I cannot help but watch how similar these two areas of my life are. The passion and sacrificial nature of the followers and the resistance of the world Both communities … …Are run by a mish mash of volonteers and large companies (denominations). …Have highly…
The importance of virtue.
Read more: The importance of virtue.In my devotion yeterday I came across a piece of scripture that spoke to me about the Knightly virtues. 16:1 The plans of the heart belong to man, but the answer of the tongue is from the Lord. 2 All the ways of a man are pure in his own eyes, but the Lord weighs…
New photos
Read more: New photosNew photos up in the gallery, only for those who won’t get nauseated by cute children.
Whom have you forgiven today?
Read more: Whom have you forgiven today?This sunday Sarah preached on John 20:19-23, her message was actually about waiting on the Lord but this phrase got stuck in my head. If you forgive the sins of any, they are forgiven them; if you withhold forgiveness from any, it is withheld. We all know that we are to forgive others so that…
The call for contemplative silence
Read more: The call for contemplative silenceTuesday night when I was talking at Metro I described the tension between our ministry driven church programs and the call of God to an almost monastic life. It is my firm belief that God is calling us to worship Him before we do any thing for Him. It is also my belief that that…
The merton prayer
Read more: The merton prayerThis prayer was written by [[Thomas Merton]] in his book thoughts in solitude. MY LORD GOD, I have no idea where I am going. I do not see the road ahead of me. I cannot know for certain where it will end. Nor do I really know myself, and the fact that I think I…
A daily prayer
Read more: A daily prayerThis prayer is credited to St. Ignatius of Loyola. A medieval warrior monk. It is a cry to God to become a true Knight, generous, serving, selfless in service of the greater good. A warrior of Love! Lord teach me to be generous. Teach me to serve You as You deserve. Teach me to give…
Preaching at Metro tonight, 2007-04-10
Read more: Preaching at Metro tonight, 2007-04-10Time to appear at Metro again today, they have been bugging me for months that I should come back and preach at their youth event again but as they have their youth night when we have SSG practice it just wont happen that often. This week however I decided to go! I have been asked…
Aim lower, think smaller, give up & go, have a cup of coffe
Read more: Aim lower, think smaller, give up & go, have a cup of coffeWhat a great Christian slogan! All joking aside this is one of the best videos I have seen in a long while… Spread the word! [gv data=”http://www.youtube.com/v/KaI6wmapPIc”][/gv] This is why I am a youth worker for life! People where fine with me being a youth worker when I was 14 and noone even blinked when…
Prayer before battle
Read more: Prayer before battleI got this sent to me on The Curia1 mailing list and I thought I’d share it. It is a fantastic prayer, aparently prayed by a templar knight before a battle in the holy land. Almighty God, Eternal Father, Lord of Lords, have mercy upon me, a humble knight in Thy Divine Service. Oh Lord,…
Going about…
Read more: Going about…I am preparing a teaching for tuesdays youth meeting at Metro. I have been asked to preach on time, how to plan it what to do with it. As I am exploring my Ideas of Gods time or the art of becoming, I ran across this fantastic poem written by [[Toyohiko Kagawa]], a Christian and…
Salvationism revisited
Read more: Salvationism revisitedSister Eleanor at the Evening Beaches Blog picked up on the conversation I had wit Graeme on which he blogged over at UK Salvationist. At the same time the discussion about uniform is yet again adressed over at Blod & Eld1. It all comes together in a discussion about our Salvation Army identity. Here is…
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.
