About me

A few things about myself – 'because that's how it should be'.

My name is Teun de Jager and I was born to believing parents. Here you see how this was announced in the magazine "Uit het Woord der Waarheid". When I posted this picture I saw for the first time that the word 'Son' is written with a capital. Funny, but I have no idea why.

Birth announcement 11-12-48

Raised in a 'brother movement' community, I accepted the Lord Jesus as my Savior and Lord when I was 16 years old. Three brothers there made an indelible impression on me, which has stayed with me all my life:

  • the one in whom you could tell in his sermons that he needed the Lord Jesus in his Christian life as much as a young man in his twenties; that was consolation;
  • the other, a pur sang evangelist who very often took us out for street evangelism; that was encouragement;
  • the third, whom you could find praying, kneeling before his chair, when you entered his study unannounced; that was example.

After college I had to do my substitute military service as a recognized conscientious objector and we got married. We have four children and 10 grandchildren. I have worked at the Dutch Railways, Philips, Baan, HAN and since a number of years retired.

I am an imperfect Christian. I love God's Word, but know far too little about it. There are many things I don't know the answer to. But the special thing is that in practice the Lord often makes clear those things from His Word that we really need.

For the last fifteen years, the topics of this site have been important to me, even though circumstances have forced me to occupy myself with them.

On the one hand, the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ (2 Corinthians 4:6). The conviction that the person and work of the Lord Jesus is so great that we cannot comprehend it. We need the whole Bible to get to know and admire Him more. But He is also so great that we need nothing else besides Him for our spiritual life. Christ the Crucified must increasingly be our life. All that we humans have made of the Christian life, we should get rid of, so that He may become greater for us and become only more about Him (John 3:30).

On the other hand, the tremendous deception that is going on in the Christian realm. The great ease with which Christians accept what is presented to them as 'true' by their leaders. While those things lead them down a road that God's Word calls "idolatry." Without realizing it, we – just like the people of Israel at the time – fall under the judgment of God.

Therefore, Christians must learn to see what the Bible says is the real meaning of idolatry and what it means to "serve the true God." All I can do is post on this site what I receive from the Lord from His Word. I hope it helps you "serve God" and love the Lord Jesus more.

Here's another piece of family history: sixty letters that my grandparents wrote to my father in the period 1938 -1948. To download if you are interested (Sixty-letters).

Taking pictures is one of the things I like to do, but for which I have (too) little time. Every now and then I put something on Pixabay; you can them here find.

You will find blogs about my circumstances from autumn 2019 under the Footsteps category (see here)