Last nights youth service was a disaster. Everyone was late including me, ten minutes after we where supposed to meet, I realize that all the dates on next months program is wrong and I had just cut up 120 flyers by hand, so I had to start from the beginning. We didn’t have time to…

So The last days have been days colored in the three colors of the NCD trinitarian compass. The NCD concept is not new and there was nothing in the conference that was truly astounding or revolutionary and I think that is the strength of NCD. It just confirms what we already know from the bible.…

So I am of to an NCD conference with Christian Schwartz today, so I won’t be blogging but I found this at blogthings.com, incidently I recently found Dr. Pepper wich is my favorite drink, at Stockmanns here in Riga it was a victory. Finally I can celebrate those small moments in style. You Are Dr.…

So I was preaching at Metro last night, When I entered the place was empty save the three people who had arrived ‘early’ that is at 19:00 when the meeting started. The organizers appologizing that there was a hockey game on tonight (Latvia vs. Norway) so it would be a somewhat smaller crowd. As more…

If you are saved by Jesus and born again, you are a new creation in Him. You are an Alien to this planet. With your home being in a dimension far far away. Sent out through time and space to bring a message across the great divide. If you listen to the Bible you ARE…

Being and doing, I hear these small catch frazes everywhere and I think they both miss the mark. If we concentrate on the doing we become busybodies that rush off in our own power and burn out for God. If we on the other hand focus on the being we become introvert spiritual navelgazers and…

Life is about the little choices made every day. And even though life as a Christian begins with a U-turn, turning away from darkness into light, Holiness is making that same choice a thousand times every day for the rest of your life. Every choice you make will take you closer or further from God,…

We need to be like Jesus, all forgiving and all loving, showing mercy and empathy towards a lost and confused world. And at the same time we need to be uncompromizing in our adherence and devotion to the truth of God. When I first got saved, it was 1991 in Heratige baptist church, Lebanon Missouri…

I have spent the last 3 days at IMG4 – The Latvian annual true love waits conference. A great conference with 200 young peolpe curious about what the Christian Faith has to say about relationships. There was everything from Bible teaching to great concerts by Xenos and Second chance In the hall you had 200+…

I am reading [[Terry Pratchet]]s book “Going Postal” a wonderful parody on life, the internet and the postal service. As usual with Terry pratchets books they also include a lot of satirical comments on society today and life in general. One comment that stuck with me was this: “As long as a mans name is…

I’m a missionary in Riga…… And from today I have the paper to prove it. I have a Latvian personal code and I am allowed to live and work in Latvia for the next five years. Now all we have to do is to hold our breath until Hanna and Angelina get theirs.

You would think that a community that promotes tolerance would actually show tolerance to other views. Not so in the heated debate about Intelligent design and the veracity of Jesus truth claim. Right now I am reading Lee Strobels “a case for” series of books. At the outset I found my faith growing and I…

So this saturday my old K2 fatboyz got some exercize again, I went to play hockey on blades, and boy was it Fun! It was 2 hours of hardcore stickwaving, rollerblading, sweating, torture for muscles I didn’t even know I had. So of I go to buy a hockey stick ’cause this was to much…

After last weeks accident numbers where down on the self defense course, but a few brave souls showed up to keep up their training. Once again the Latvian women surprized me with their determination and resilience. Not to mention that they are actually starting to get really good both in the wrestling and sticky hands.…