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The blessing of reconciliation

On 30 March 2026 By Teun de Jager In Spiritual Life, Serving God

Resting in the finished work of Christ At the heart of our Christian faith lies a mystery both simple and unfathomably deep: the atonement1. For many, this remains an abstract term, but when we open the Scriptures - and ...

Keeping the eye on Jesus!

On 6 October 2025 By Teun de Jager In Biblestudy, Spiritual Life, Serving God

Christ is the perfect High Priest and has opened the way to God. In so doing, He grants all believers an invaluable possession. At the same time, there is an earnest call to always keep one's eye on Jesus.

The quest for lasting peace

On 2 October 2025 By Teun de Jager In Biblestudy, Spiritual Life, Spirituality and Mysticism

True reconciliation with God does not come through one's own effort or asceticism, but only through Christ's perfect sacrifice, which gives lasting peace and daily cleansing.

Good mood

On 18 April 2022 By Teun de Jager In Spiritual Life

The gospel of the glory of Christ is the reason a Christian does not lose heart, no matter how hard life may be.

The downfall

On 22 August 2019 By Teun de Jager In Topical, End time, Spiritual Life

Only a personal, living faith in Christ Jesus can keep us safe in this time of chaos, apostasy and ruin.

The Gospel of Jesus Christ

On 10 September 2018 By Teun de Jager In Spiritual Life, Serving God

The Gospel in a few Bible verses.That they may encourage us to offer our sacrifices of praise and thanksgiving to God our Father and to our Lord Jesus Christ! "For God so loved the world, that He gave His only begotten ...

Know the Lord

On 10 June 2018 By Teun de Jager In Idolatry, Spiritual Life, Serving God, Holy Spirit, Spirituality and Mysticism

A while ago at a Bible study conference, a text came along from which a certain phrase rather stuck with me. It was the phrase "knowing the Lord" from Hebrews 8:11 "And they shall certainly not every man his neighbor and every ...

The Church According to Luke

On 5 March 2018 By Teun de Jager In Biblestudy, Fellowhip and Church

As I recently read through, more or less "accidentally," the last section of the Gospel according to Luke, it struck me that in this section (Luke 24:36-53), Luke mentions a number of things that you might call "basic characteristics of the church" ...

Thoughts on the sacrifices

On 4 March 2018 By Teun de Jager In Spiritual Life, Serving God

We have talked about it many times before, how important it is to thank and praise God our Father and the Lord Jesus for the work on the cross of Calvary. The other day I ran across it in the Old ...

The hidden things

On 22 February 2018 By Teun de Jager In Idolatry, Biblestudy, Serving God

"The hidden things are to the LORD our God, but the things revealed are to us and to our children forever, to do all the words of this law" (Deuteronomy 29:29). The application of this text is usually ...