A Year with Zoom This Sunday, it will have been a year since we started meeting online. We never planned on that being the case, and several time along the way, we have considered going back, but other than meeting twice in an outdoor setting, it has been a solid year...
COVID Blessings A year and one week ago I was sitting in my hotel room in Dubrovnik, Croatia, talking to a Lufthansa agent on the phone, trying to find a way to get home to Brazil on a flight several days earlier than I had planned. I had awakened that morning to...
When Challenges and Difficulties Become a Blessing It’s been just more than a year since the pandemic, but somehow it feels much longer than that. Why? Why is it for others it feels so fast that they barely noticed that time passed by? As we face everyday challenges...
Choosing Joy A few days after the announcement of the second lockdown in Germany, I shared my disappointment with Pastor Garrett Starr (Faith Baptist Church, Kaiserslautern, Germany) about not being able to gather for a Christmas Eve service. He responded with mutual...
Persevering in Jesus Christ This past year, 2020, was the year of explosive changes that have wounded many of our souls. Humanity awaited the strike of midnight between 31 December and 1 January. Somehow, we tricked ourselves into believing that this simple second...
