Luca Staehelin
You can compare Our Father to a mountain region: It is vast and full of beautiful places. We are taking a train journey through the middle of the Lord’s Prayer to get to know it better and to marvel at it. A fortnight ago we met to start the Lifegroup Weekend together. We had a lot of fun! – For example, at the «Shiitli um» or in the canoe. And we studied the Lord’s Prayer, probably the best known prayer in Christianity. I was very happy to see how much joy you all had in…
Summary: In the midst of thousands of questions and answers in the topic of «identity», the Bible asks us one question that is much more important than all the others: Are you born again? The new birth redeems us from our old condition – death – and gives us new life through Jesus. This identity floods all other facets of our being. At the Lifegroup Weekend a year ago, you – Selina, Svea, Immanuel, Janik, Peniel and Timon – requested that we talk about «identity» this morning.…
Noah lived in a corrupt world – people turned away from God. But Noah found grace with God. He walked his path with him, listened to him and thus became a light in the society of that time. Through Jesus, we too are called and empowered to live as lights in a corrupt world. Also today we take time to get to know a person from the Bible. I wanted to take a person from the book of Genesis with a…
We do not find true rest through a method, but through a person. Jesus wants to give us his rest. The summer holidays are just around the corner. A time when we wish to come to rest, recharge our batteries and escape the stress of everyday life. And with that comes the question of how exactly that works. In any case, I ask myself this question again and again. «How do I find peace? How can I switch off and recharge my batteries?