Does anyone know any good books?
It's so inspiring and fun to read my bible right now. Sometimes I just don't feel like it at all, but I really enjoy it recently and I thought it would be great to combine reading the bible with another book. So far I enjoyed reading 'Lies young women believe' and 'Your scars are beautiful to God' in small group but apart from that I never really found another book that inspired and touched me the way those two did.
So if you have any that you would recommend reading PLEASE comment or email me ;)
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Monday, December 12, 2011
Sunday, November 20, 2011
You are holy
I went to church again today!
The church is called 'Christian Center Bielefeld'. It's really close to me and I went with a friend (my brother's best friend's mom Brigitte who we will also be celebrating Thanksgiving with next week ^^). We both felt so welcomed right away and it was such a great community and sermon :) I decided to buy a German Bible, since the only German one I have so far is the German-English one Steph and Mitch got for me on Christmas (there's a picture) and since it's both English and German it's pretty heavy to carry around every Sunday. So now I have a smaller one. Also they asked in the beginning before the sermon if there is anybody new that was there for the first time. We then both got a little packet with a welcoming letter, some information about the church, two gift certificates for coffee at the little coffee bar they had there and one gift certificate to get a free New Testament. When I payed for the Bible and got the free New Testament, I also got another book for free. Then when we left the church with the friend who invited Brigitte and me she both gave us a book called 'Jesus unser Schicksal' (in English: Jesus our destiny). So I left the church with four books even though I only bought one :)
I was so excited and now I am so incredibly happy that we were able to go.
I'm also listening to Louie Giglio's 'UnThinkable You - Journey with God' right now.
We watched 'How great is our God', 'Fruitcake and Ice Cream' and 'Indescribable' during Youth Group before and I just found 'UnThinkable You - Journey with God' yesterday. Here is a link to a short video about the different sermons.
Wow, there are a lot of links in this post and here is the last one for today :)
The church is called 'Christian Center Bielefeld'. It's really close to me and I went with a friend (my brother's best friend's mom Brigitte who we will also be celebrating Thanksgiving with next week ^^). We both felt so welcomed right away and it was such a great community and sermon :) I decided to buy a German Bible, since the only German one I have so far is the German-English one Steph and Mitch got for me on Christmas (there's a picture) and since it's both English and German it's pretty heavy to carry around every Sunday. So now I have a smaller one. Also they asked in the beginning before the sermon if there is anybody new that was there for the first time. We then both got a little packet with a welcoming letter, some information about the church, two gift certificates for coffee at the little coffee bar they had there and one gift certificate to get a free New Testament. When I payed for the Bible and got the free New Testament, I also got another book for free. Then when we left the church with the friend who invited Brigitte and me she both gave us a book called 'Jesus unser Schicksal' (in English: Jesus our destiny). So I left the church with four books even though I only bought one :)
I was so excited and now I am so incredibly happy that we were able to go.
I'm also listening to Louie Giglio's 'UnThinkable You - Journey with God' right now.
We watched 'How great is our God', 'Fruitcake and Ice Cream' and 'Indescribable' during Youth Group before and I just found 'UnThinkable You - Journey with God' yesterday. Here is a link to a short video about the different sermons.
Wow, there are a lot of links in this post and here is the last one for today :)
Sunday, October 2, 2011
All I Have is Christ
Wow, I'm back in Germany for more than two months already and today was the first time that I went to church since July 24! I decided I wanted to check out the church I went to with my family - that would be once a year: Christmas - before I came to America, but I kept finding 'excuses' why I couldn't go.
I got so mad at myself because I didn't do anything, I think in the last 2 months I read my Bible once completely on my own - I listened to the sermons from Calvary that are online so I read a few passages along - so I did quiet time once. I don't even know why I think it's so hard, it really isn't! Back in America I thought it would be so though to find a church that I would like to go to and stay confident in my faith.
I didn't go to church the first Sunday because we took my brother to the airport (he went to Ecuador do to voluntary work for a year) and after that I just found a whole lot of reasons why I didn't go.
Last Monday me and my mom visited my Godmother, because it was her birthday, and I talked to her daughter for quite a while! She asked me if I wanted to borrow a couple of books from her and she gave me "When God Writes Your Love Story" by Eric and Leslie Ludy. I started reading it yesterday when I took a break from studying for my drivers license test and I really like it - I'm only on page 48 though... I am a really slow reader. Anyway, when I read it I realized how much I pushed God away the last couple of month and I started watching Fireproof, knowing it would remind me of the greatness of Him! I felt so good when I went to bed last night :)
Then this morning I woke up at 8.45am to get ready to BIKE (I usually hate biking, I'm just not the biggest sports fan, but it is so nice outside and my parents were still sleeping...) to church. It is so cool that I went this Sunday because it was the best sermon I ever experienced in Germany! The church has a sister church in Ghana and works together with a missions organization. They had a choir from Africa come to our church and the songs were so beautiful. Plus it was a very long sermon (2 hours) compared to the usual ones (45 minutes) so it was a lot closer to what I am used to from Calvary :) And another awesome thing: they translated most of it in English for the choir. I know it sounds weird but I still understand English way better than German. There are a couple of old words that are used quite often in church that I don't know so it was nice to have the English translation :D
My school offers a retreat for 10th grade (my grade) every year to a former monastery. They take 30 people every year. Here in Germany we have Religion class in school, but if you want to you can pick Philosophy instead beginning in 9th grade. If there are more than 30 people signed up for the retreat they'll prefer the students that chose Religion and if they still have to many, they will draw the names. I'm really excited for this and hope I'll be able to go.
I love all of the Animation videos from Sovereign Grace Music, but this is definitely my favorite one so far.
It is so incredible and almost always makes me cry.
Please pray for me that I take my time to read God's Word more often and trust in Him!
I miss you guys ♥
I got so mad at myself because I didn't do anything, I think in the last 2 months I read my Bible once completely on my own - I listened to the sermons from Calvary that are online so I read a few passages along - so I did quiet time once. I don't even know why I think it's so hard, it really isn't! Back in America I thought it would be so though to find a church that I would like to go to and stay confident in my faith.
I didn't go to church the first Sunday because we took my brother to the airport (he went to Ecuador do to voluntary work for a year) and after that I just found a whole lot of reasons why I didn't go.
Last Monday me and my mom visited my Godmother, because it was her birthday, and I talked to her daughter for quite a while! She asked me if I wanted to borrow a couple of books from her and she gave me "When God Writes Your Love Story" by Eric and Leslie Ludy. I started reading it yesterday when I took a break from studying for my drivers license test and I really like it - I'm only on page 48 though... I am a really slow reader. Anyway, when I read it I realized how much I pushed God away the last couple of month and I started watching Fireproof, knowing it would remind me of the greatness of Him! I felt so good when I went to bed last night :)
Then this morning I woke up at 8.45am to get ready to BIKE (I usually hate biking, I'm just not the biggest sports fan, but it is so nice outside and my parents were still sleeping...) to church. It is so cool that I went this Sunday because it was the best sermon I ever experienced in Germany! The church has a sister church in Ghana and works together with a missions organization. They had a choir from Africa come to our church and the songs were so beautiful. Plus it was a very long sermon (2 hours) compared to the usual ones (45 minutes) so it was a lot closer to what I am used to from Calvary :) And another awesome thing: they translated most of it in English for the choir. I know it sounds weird but I still understand English way better than German. There are a couple of old words that are used quite often in church that I don't know so it was nice to have the English translation :D
My school offers a retreat for 10th grade (my grade) every year to a former monastery. They take 30 people every year. Here in Germany we have Religion class in school, but if you want to you can pick Philosophy instead beginning in 9th grade. If there are more than 30 people signed up for the retreat they'll prefer the students that chose Religion and if they still have to many, they will draw the names. I'm really excited for this and hope I'll be able to go.
I love all of the Animation videos from Sovereign Grace Music, but this is definitely my favorite one so far.
It is so incredible and almost always makes me cry.
Please pray for me that I take my time to read God's Word more often and trust in Him!
I miss you guys ♥
Tuesday, June 28, 2011
Give me your eyes
Operation St. Cloud was great!
I'm really sorry that I didn't post about it earlier, but I just never felt very motivated to write everything down. If you read Steph's Blog you already know that it was a really great idea. It was basically a missions trip but we did all the ministry work in St. Cloud. We stayed about 20 minutes from town in the Riverside Resort in Richmond, Minnesota.
The five girls of our team, Kenna, Kaitlin, Katie, Rachel and I, stayed in Cabin 14 and the 7 boys, Jordan, Will, Darris, Colton, Trey, Caleb and Josh stayed in Cabin 10.
We left on Monday at 11am from Calvary... well actually that's when we met there to pack everything up so we probably didn't left until 11.45. We head out to go on a Prayer Drive - we stopped at the Dream Center, Downtown in front of the Court House , Federal Building and Catholic Church; St. Cloud Hospital, Place of Hope, and at Southside Park where we did the VBS. We then also walked around and handed out flyers to kids for our Vacation Bible School. We then went to our Cabins where we unloaded everything, played volleyball (lots of fun!), ate, took showers, talked about the next day: what we would do for VBS etc., and we had Devotional Time and a Camp Fire.
A 'normal' day looked kind of like this:
7.30am Getting up and ready
8.30am Breakfast
9.00am Devotional Time
10.00am Prepare Lunch Bags
10.30am Leave the Resort and drive to St. Cloud
11.00am Set up for VBS
11.30am Go out and ask kids to come
12.00pm Start playing with the kids
12.30pm Do the craft and snack after that the drama and lesson
1.00pm Pack everything up and drive to Lake George for Lunch
2.30pm Leaving the Park and going to the Dream Center
6.30pm Heading back to the cabins
What we did at the cabins kind of changed in time every day but we basically discussed what we did so far and what we wanted to do the next days.
I really enjoyed the whole 'Operation' :)
I'm really sorry that I didn't post about it earlier, but I just never felt very motivated to write everything down. If you read Steph's Blog you already know that it was a really great idea. It was basically a missions trip but we did all the ministry work in St. Cloud. We stayed about 20 minutes from town in the Riverside Resort in Richmond, Minnesota.
The five girls of our team, Kenna, Kaitlin, Katie, Rachel and I, stayed in Cabin 14 and the 7 boys, Jordan, Will, Darris, Colton, Trey, Caleb and Josh stayed in Cabin 10.
We left on Monday at 11am from Calvary... well actually that's when we met there to pack everything up so we probably didn't left until 11.45. We head out to go on a Prayer Drive - we stopped at the Dream Center, Downtown in front of the Court House , Federal Building and Catholic Church; St. Cloud Hospital, Place of Hope, and at Southside Park where we did the VBS. We then also walked around and handed out flyers to kids for our Vacation Bible School. We then went to our Cabins where we unloaded everything, played volleyball (lots of fun!), ate, took showers, talked about the next day: what we would do for VBS etc., and we had Devotional Time and a Camp Fire.
A 'normal' day looked kind of like this:
7.30am Getting up and ready
8.30am Breakfast
9.00am Devotional Time
10.00am Prepare Lunch Bags
10.30am Leave the Resort and drive to St. Cloud
11.00am Set up for VBS
11.30am Go out and ask kids to come
12.00pm Start playing with the kids
12.30pm Do the craft and snack after that the drama and lesson
1.00pm Pack everything up and drive to Lake George for Lunch
2.30pm Leaving the Park and going to the Dream Center
6.30pm Heading back to the cabins
What we did at the cabins kind of changed in time every day but we basically discussed what we did so far and what we wanted to do the next days.
I really enjoyed the whole 'Operation' :)
Friday, June 3, 2011
Hope Always
The pictures that the photographers took at our graduation are finally online.
I wanted to order the plaque and put a Bible verse on it. Now I have a maximum of 60 characters that I can use, so a lot of my favorite ones are already out. I try to only take part of the verse, but it's not really working.
For example, I really like Psalm 32:10:
Or Hebrews 13:6
Well there are a couple of others and I thought it would be fun to make a poll about it :)
So I will do that and in case you have any other ideas, PLEASE comment on this post!
Thanks!
I wanted to order the plaque and put a Bible verse on it. Now I have a maximum of 60 characters that I can use, so a lot of my favorite ones are already out. I try to only take part of the verse, but it's not really working.
For example, I really like Psalm 32:10:
Many are the sorrows of the wicked, but steadfast love surrounds the one who trusts in the Lord.For that one I would be able to put "But steadfast love surrounds the one who trusts in the LORD" on the plaque.
Or Hebrews 13:6
The Lord is my helper; I will not fear; what can man do to me?For that one "The Lord is my helper; I will not fear what can man do to me", would be what I can put on it...
Well there are a couple of others and I thought it would be fun to make a poll about it :)
So I will do that and in case you have any other ideas, PLEASE comment on this post!
Thanks!
Monday, April 25, 2011
Jesus Messiah
Okay so it's still Easter (Monday) so this post is not too late :D
Yesterday was great!
We went to church early to participate in the fundraiser breakfast for a missions trip this year and it was great to already meet a couple of people before the sermon and talk to them :)
The sermon itself was awesome and I hope that it's online soon so that I can put a link on here for you to see!
We also had three baptisms again. I love to hear all the different testimonies I get so excited when I listen to the different stories!
After church we went home, changed clothes and then went to Papa's house (Mitch's Dad - my host grandpa). We had an Easter Egg Hunt and looots of good food :) First Eva and Papa were hiding the eggs for or the little kids - everyone had 7 or 8, one person had one color of eggs and a little sticker on them so that they don't find the "wrong" eggs :)
When the little kids were done they all helped to hide Eva's and my eggs - way up high or so hidden we could barely see them :) It was so much fun too find them and I think it took me about an hour to find all of mine. Eva's were pink and mine were blue. By the time I found three of mine I already knew where all of Eva's were :D So when Mitch and Paul gave us hints by showing pictures in which area the rest of the eggs were hidden I already knew if it was "my area" or Eva's ;)
I got a pair of socks, a mood necklace with a 'K' as a charm, a cord and beats and a treble clef charm to make my own bracelet or necklace, a pencil and music stickers for my scrapbook :) Thank you so much again!
Here are some pictures!
Thanks for a great Easter Sunday Theis Family!
Yesterday was great!
We went to church early to participate in the fundraiser breakfast for a missions trip this year and it was great to already meet a couple of people before the sermon and talk to them :)
The sermon itself was awesome and I hope that it's online soon so that I can put a link on here for you to see!
We also had three baptisms again. I love to hear all the different testimonies I get so excited when I listen to the different stories!
After church we went home, changed clothes and then went to Papa's house (Mitch's Dad - my host grandpa). We had an Easter Egg Hunt and looots of good food :) First Eva and Papa were hiding the eggs for or the little kids - everyone had 7 or 8, one person had one color of eggs and a little sticker on them so that they don't find the "wrong" eggs :)
When the little kids were done they all helped to hide Eva's and my eggs - way up high or so hidden we could barely see them :) It was so much fun too find them and I think it took me about an hour to find all of mine. Eva's were pink and mine were blue. By the time I found three of mine I already knew where all of Eva's were :D So when Mitch and Paul gave us hints by showing pictures in which area the rest of the eggs were hidden I already knew if it was "my area" or Eva's ;)
I got a pair of socks, a mood necklace with a 'K' as a charm, a cord and beats and a treble clef charm to make my own bracelet or necklace, a pencil and music stickers for my scrapbook :) Thank you so much again!
Here are some pictures!
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| Paul with Obadiah |
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| Malachi just found an egg |
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| It is hiding :) |
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| Love shutter speed! |
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| Good job buddy |
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| Good spot for the eggs! |
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| See the easter bunny ears? |
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| 'Maybe there are eggs in the water!?' |
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| 'I wonder where the rest of my eggs are!' |
Thanks for a great Easter Sunday Theis Family!
He is Lord
Happy Easter!
I love this video - just found that version with subtitles in German. Mitch and Steph played it once in the beginning of my year over here and then throughout the year a couple times, now I often play it myself instead of listening to music and today we watched it in our sermon :)
I will write something later today about our day now I just really want to sleep, it was a loooong (great) day!
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