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The art of keeping silence

”He was by far the most intelligent man among them – which showed in the fact that he never missed an opportunity to keep his mouth shut”.  First time I read this statement it made me think and think twice,

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”They never stop wanting!”

When I was reading a Christian newspaper this morning, a line from Frank Peretti´s book ”The Visitation” popped into my mind. The book tells the story of a bitter and disappointed minister, who has given up on being a pastor,

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Church signs can be fun!

I have not seen many funny church signs here in Finland, but in other parts of the world this seems to be almost an art. Would it not be nice – and instructing, too –  to find a sign like

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Listening to the rapids of Kiutaköngäs

Two days ago I was sitting on the cliffs above the rapids of Kiutaköngäs in Kuusamo. And I was looking and listening. All too often we are just looking at scenarios like this, looking and admiring, but we do not

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Messengers of Heaven

  Every now and then I listen to Don Francisco. I like his older songs even more than his more recent, maybe because I myself was young back then when I first discovered him in the early eighties. But more

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Isaiah 6

  Lord, I want to be taken past all the accessoaries of religion.   I want to be taken past the multitudes of people that are wandering to and fro, forever seeking out the places where the most tasty churchprogram

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The noble art of upsetting people

A few days ago I did it again – or, hopefully it wasn´t me… It has happened so many times by now that it is becoming a habit of mine, this stepping on other people´s sore toes without even knowing

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I´m a rock

Few songs have touched my own sense of loneliness like Simon & Garfunkels ”I´m a rock”. I still remember being a teenager with a lot of people I knew and almost no friends, feeling strange and outside everything, and listening

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About this Facebook thing…

Every now and then people ask me why I´m not on Facebook. And sure, there are a lot of things going on that I know nothing about, just because I´m no facebooker. Question is, do I need to know all

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And just who are You?

I´m in my contemplative mood today. I´ve been a Christian for nearly forty years, and a fulltime preacher for twenty, and still I´m wondering and asking. God, just who are You? I have a strong feeling that we are diminishing

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