Christliche Impulse - Christian impulses

Deutsch English While I'm preparing for a sermon and ask myself, can you talk about it at all? Certain circumstances make me sad. At this moment the phone rings: A person wishes me a happy new year and asks me for a Bible verse that he has received for himself from the Lord and does not know where it is: „Why are you cast down, O my soul, and why are you in turmoil within me? Hope in God; for I shall again praise him, my salvation Psalm 42:6 (ESV) This Bible verse is the right word for her and for me right now! A strange calm fills me when I realize that the same wording of this verse is found three times in the Psalms! Once in chapter 42:6; then verse 12 and for the third time in chapter 43:5. The year 2024 was a very difficult year worldwide. Fear and worries about the job. Will COVID affect me again? Can I continue my studies? What does the future hold? It is good to know that we have a powerful God, to whom w...

Deutsch English Therefore, since we have been justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ. Romans 5:1 (ESV) A handshake does not create peace. Many people want peace. They demonstrate for peace, but they don't achieve it. The inability to be at peace is a characteristic of people without God. Those who rebel against God cannot rest and cannot have peace. Peace is not a holy feeling that comes over us in a church, it is the state of a heart deeply rooted in God. (Peter Stark) Peace is an undeserved, precious gift from God. 1. How does peace express itself? In the hymn text by H. G. Spafford it says: When peace with God pervades my soul, even if storms threaten from afar, my heart sings in faith at all times: “I am well, I am well in the Lord!” “We recently sang this song in a church service, young and old together.” The song was sung by a young man who lost his father to an aggressive cance...