Author Archives: Werner Dekarski

GOALS THAT PULL

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wernerweb-150x150Has anybody ever asked you the question, “Do you have a regular exercise program?”

I am motivated to be on the streets in town where the people are. My goal is to leave at least once a day our home for the center of Kaitaia. There are many places where you can get a good cup of coffee and that are also the places to meet people and get into conversations.

I enjoy walking, and it is quite a distance from our place into town.

I am also motivated to read.

At the present time another of my goals is to get hold of a certain magazine every two weeks at a certain place at a certain time.

In order to do that I am required to walk for quite a distance.

My answer to the question, “Do you have a regular exercise program?” is “Yes!”

My exercise program is walking and I have told you about the goals which pull me to do so.

Goals have power!

LEBENSANZEIGE

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werner-150x150Todesanzeige oder Lebensanzeige?

Wir sind gewohnt, von Todesanzeigen zu lesen. Aber wie erstaunt war ich heute, von einer Lebensanzeige unter

“VERSTORBEN”

zu lesen.

“Lebensanzeige – durch den Tod

ins ewige Leben uebergegangen,”

heisst es da und darunter finde ich den folgenden Bibelvers:

“Ich bin die Auferstehung und das Leben; wer an mich glaubt, wird leben, auch wenn er gestorben ist; und jeder, der da lebt und an mich glaubt, wird nicht sterben in Ewigkeit.” – Johannes 11:25,26

Und darunter steht natuerlich der Name des Verstorbenen und der Name der hinterbliebenen Frau.

Welch eine Ermutigung ist es fuer mich, das zu lesen.

Wie wird dein Leben enden?

Mit einer Todesanzeige oder einer Lebensanzeige?

“Newsletter gelesen?”

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“Newsletter gelesen?” were the first words I saw written on the big, white envelope, when I pulled it out of our letterbox today. I really had to pull it, because it was stuck.

I think the meaning, (translation) of the two words is “Have you read the newsletter?” Please tell me, if I am wrong.

"Newsletter gelesen?"

“Newsletter gelesen?”

What a good question.

I want to ask you also a question. “Have you read the Bible … today?” I have read Exodus chapter 39 today.

The above mentioned newsletter is the February/March 2014 letter for the graduates of Bibelschule Brake in Germany called “forum”.

In FORUM for the graduates you can find the letter from the director of the Bible College, something about staff members, news from the graduates and more.

In the February/March 2014 newsletter the book SIEBEN GRUENDE, WARUM ICH DER BIBEL VERTRAUEN KANN by Erwin Lutzer is advertised.

But in the Bible you find the words of God, because the author of the Bible is God the Holy Spirit. And unless you know the author, the Bible is like any other book for you. In Matthew 24:35 it says, “Heaven and earth will pass away, but my words will never pass away.”

And yes, I have read the newsletter.

I cannot say that I read every word of the newsletter, but I can say that I have read the Bible from cover to cover, every word. And that not only once.

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We gain strength, and courage, and confidence by each experience in which we really stop to look fear in the face … we must do that which we think we cannot. – Eleanor Roosevelt

SURF LIFE SAVING

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“I helped save a life by donating to Surf Life Saving,” is the message on the sticker.

What is life?

We are born and we die and the time in between is our life.

"SURF LIFE SAVING"

“SURF LIFE SAVING”

We are very familiar with our body, the physical part of man, the part that dies.

What happened after the Fall? Our body became a dying body.

But how familiar are we with the two nonphysical parts of a person?

The spirit lives on after death. The soul also survives death.

Man has three parts. The Bible teaches that very clearly. First Thessalonians 5:23; Hebrews 4:12 and Luke 1:46,47.

“May God himself, the God of peace, sanctify you through and through. May your whole SPIRIT, SOUL and BODY be kept blameless at the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ.” – First Thessalonians 5:13

Why did the Lord Jesus Christ die on the cross? The answer is that he died to redeem our soul.

And there are several reasons for being a soul winner. The fact of hell is enough reason for being a soul winner. Do we really believe that souls are headed for a lost eternity of hell fire?

If we really believed that, would we not do more to persuade people to turn from sin to the Lord Jesus Christ?

I think we would.

Yesterday I talked to two people on a street corner here in our town about my faith. I had two attentive listeners.

Another is the worth of a soul. More than all the world is the worth of one soul.

I cannot say, “I helped save a life by donating to Surf Life Saving,” but I can say, “I helped save a soul by donating to the work of the Lord Jesus Christ.”