13.09.07 Suicide

We stopped in Wangarei coming back from Auckland and I looked at a paper and there was something written about people committing suicide. At home now I opened a different paper and there is an article in the Northern News about ” Developing skills to help prevent suicide”.

It says that nearly 500 New Zealanders commit suicide each year. More than dying on the road each year.

Would like to go to the workshop, but the cost is $ 395 per person.

I remember reading the same 50 years ago in a paper in Germany. ( I mean comparing the people who commit suicide with those who die on the road.) It was said that people commit suicide because they have it too good. In German: Wohlstandsselbstmorde.

Let me know if you think differently concerning this matter.

“MADE BY GOD- PACKED BY CHARLIE’S”

PERSONAL EVANGELISM

I am writing this in Auckland and last Sunday I attended the Bible Chapel in New Lynn. Inspired by the sermon a lady got up and told the following story at the end of the sermon, “I met up with a man at the Foodtown checkout who asked ‘WHO IS GOD?’ after he had read something on a bottle of Charlie’s honest squeezed Orange Juice.” To make a long story short, the Lord made her meet up with that same man three times in a row and only the third time she had the courage to say to the stranger what the Lord wanted her to say to him.

I AM NOW MORE THAN EVER CONVINCED THAT WE HAVE TO TRAIN UP PEOPLE IN PERSONAL EVANGELISM!

I myself went straight to Foodtown after the service to find out about Charlie’s honest squeezed Orange Juice. I did find the bottles, but could not find the writing on them “Made by God- Packed by Charlie’s”. The reason was probably that I did not have my glasses on me.

I asked a nearby man who is a worker there at Foodtown. But his comment was,” God has more important things to do than to make orange juice for us!”

But the next day I found the one litre bottle with the following writing on it “Made by God–Packed by Charlie’s”!

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11.09.07

Tomato plants

We have been away for almost a week. Before we went to Auckland my wife positioned young tomato plants near the window. When we came back today all the plants were bent leaning towards the light coming through the window.

I found that very interesting because it says in the Bible, “….but men loved darkness instead of light because…..” John 3:19

We can learn even from the small tomato plants.

Our quiet Time

Some of you may know that we have been in Thailand for thirteen years. I like thai food and as there are a good number of Thai restaurants in Auckland I had a meal in one of them on our recent trip to the city.

When I watched the thai lady there putting food on a shelf and praying in front of the shelf I was reminded of Thailand.

Once I stayed in a hotel in the northeast of Thailand (Khon Kaen) and I saw a man praying in front of the spirit house of the hotel. I talked to him and apparently he is doing that every morning and every evening.

What a challenge for believers in the Lord Jesus Christ to praise God every morning and every evening and to pray and read the Bible.

05.08.07

From Northern News

Emma Davis– Your next FNDC Western Ward Councillor also standing for the Western Community Board

Vote for Emma Davis

A Voice for Hokianga/ A Voice for Kaikohe/ A Voice for Everyone it says

I AM GLAD, THAT I CAN BE A VOICE FOR THE LORD JESUS CHRIST!

The Book of Joshua

The book has 24 chapters– but the key verses are Chapter 1:6-8 (Joshua 1:6-8)

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Be careful to obey all the law my servant Moses gave you;

So that you may be careful to do everything written in it.

I. do not turn from it

1. to the right

2. or to the left,

II. Do not let this Book of the law depart from your mouth;

III. Meditate on it

1. day and

2. night,

That you may be successful wherever you go.

Then you will be prosperous and successful.

To be continued!

Die Leitung nach Hause

Die Leitung nach Hause.

Unsere Lichtrechnung habe ich hier vor mir liegen. Gewoehnlich ist meine Frau sehr daran interessiert, sie nicht nur zu lesen, sondern sie auch zu studieren. Ich selbst bin nicht so sehr an der Rechnung interessiert. Sage mir immer, was bezahlt werden muss, muss bezahlt werden und desto eher desto besser. Und je weniger Anrufe wir machen, desto billiger ist die ganze Sache.

Aber heute bin ich doch froh, einmal genauer hingesehen zu haben. Da steht naemlich “Homeline”. Das heisst so viel wie “die Leitung nach Hause”. Natuerlich weiss ich, dass damit die Leitung in unser Haus gemeint ist. Aber ich muss doch bei dem Gedanken “Homeline” (Leitung nach Hause) stehen bleiben. Vom 18.12. im Jahre 2003 bis zum 17.01.04 muessen wir fast 40 neuseelaendische Dollars bezahlen. Das sind nach deutschem Geld zur Zeit 20 Euro ungefaehr. Die Leitung ist demnach nur gemietet. Ausserdem kommt noch ueber 2 Dollars fuer das Instandhalten der Draehte dazu. Zusammen also genau 41,54 Dollars nach neuseelaendischem Geld.

Aber nun wieder zurueck zu der Leitung nach Hause. Mir kommt dabei die Leitung nach unserem himmlischen zu Hause in den Sinn, die wir nartuerlich im Gebet haben. Wir wissen ja als Gotteskinder, dass der HERR zu uns durch Sein Wort spricht und wir koennen zu Ihn im Gebet kommen.

Und fuer die Leitung zu unserem himmlischen zu Hause brauchen wir nichts zu bezahlen. Sie ist umsonst. Der Herr Jesus Christus hat fuer sie bezahlt am Kreuz auf Golgatha vor ungefaehr 2000 Jahren. Auch fuer das Instandhalten der Leitung muss nichts bezahlt werden. Sie war durch die Suende unterbrochen, aber der Herr Jesus hat all unsere Suende und Schuld auf sich genommen. Und doch muss ich noch dies sagen. Die Leitung ist von unserem Herrn immer da, nur wir selbst unterbrechen sie mit unserer Suende.

Die Bibel, das Wort Gottes sagt in Jesaja 59:1–Isaiah 59:1– (bitte lesen!)

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04.09.07

On the first day in spring (01.09.07) you find the picture of a Religious Notice that appeared in the local paper, The Northland Age. To reach more people I made inquiries at the office of The New Zealand Herald and before I knew the notice was in the paper on September 1-2, 2007 (Weekend Herald) on page 15 Section D (D15)!

If I am not mistaken the circulation is 500 000.

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3.9.07

My wife is a Kindergarten teacher and she received the publication”For teachers” today.

On the front page it says: From the Director

SETTING THE RIGHT FOUNDATION

Educators know also about the importance of foundations

My foundation is First Corinthians 3:11