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Marriage reflects God's love

On 31 August 2025 By Teun de Jager In Topical, Bible, Biblestudy, Spiritual Life

Marriage was instituted by God as a reflection of His love and faithfulness. In the Bible, the relationship between husband and wife is linked to that of Christ and the church. Thus, marriage becomes a visible sign of God's care, grace and nearness in the lives of believers.

Worship in Spirit and Truth

On 22 September 2022 By Teun de Jager In Spiritual Life, Serving God, Holy Spirit

Worship in spirit and truth has first and foremost to do with the heart and what is in it and rises up before God the Father. It is a spiritual activity in which the Holy Spirit is active. The truth is in Christ the Crucified.

About the vine, love and hate

On 24 August 2022 By Teun de Jager In Biblestudy, Spiritual Life

Christ teaches His disciples about the Christian life when He is no longer with them. It's about the vine, love and hate.

Differences of opinion?

On 14 February 2022 By Teun de Jager In Topical, Biblestudy, Spiritual Life, Fellowhip and Church

Accepting each other is the task especially when you disagree on certain topics - like vaccination.

The Father's House

On 13 November 2018 By Teun de Jager In Spiritual Life, Serving God, Holy Spirit

Until we dwell in the heavenly Father's house, heaven will come to dwell with us!

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" ...

An uneven yoke

On 17 June 2017 By Teun de Jager In Topical, Spiritual Life, Fellowhip and Church

Paul's call "Do not form an unequal span with unbelievers (...)" (2 Corinthians 6:14) has been much applied to marriage. A warning not to marry an unbeliever. Now as far as I'm concerned that's okay, but if you go further ...

truth and love

On 30 April 2017 By Teun de Jager In Spiritual Life, Fellowhip and Church

The second letter of John[1] is an extraordinary letter. It is short, I already knew that, but suddenly I realized that most of my posts on this site are much longer. Well, John shows how it is also ...