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    The Lost Child

    Where was Ingeborg Machel? Inge was only three years old when she went missing, and she could never fully remember the events of that terrible night in 1945. But one thing she knew: her name [...]
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    Individual Roots, Growing Together

    One day, as I was walking along the river through the serene park of a small resort town, I spotted an interesting metal sculpture: the stems of two plants close to each other, while their [...]

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Unreliable

Unreliable. That is the best way I can describe the digital clock I have on the wall in my home office. I cannot trust this clock anymore as there have been too many times when […]

Dear Mother

Dear Mother, As I remember you today and reflect on the mother you were, I find myself thinking of the idiomatic expression “unique as a blue diamond.” Why do I say this? I say it […]

Heaven

We would like to invite you to leave this world behind for a moment and think about heaven. We assume that you believe that heaven is a reality. Regardless of what a person believes or […]

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I Will Be With You

The path down which God led my wife and me here in Brazil was not dissimilar from the road I had taken years earlier in Germany, when I gave up my career in business to […]

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He Is Risen!

What a world of meaning is contained in the short sentence – “He is risen.” He has risen and has conquered death, hell, and the grave. Through His resurrection, we are “more than conquerors.” It […]

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The Cemetery – Final Destination?

Doreen and I are visiting her sister Ingrid and husband Harold in Calgary. Our itinerary includes day trips, shopping, shared meals, uplifting conversations, and exchanging memories. Yesterday, we visited our parents’ gravesite. We parked our […]

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The Miracle of the Resurrection

“And if Christ is not risen, then our preaching is empty and your faith is also empty…But now Christ is risen from the dead, and has become the first-fruits of those who have fallen asleep.” […]

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I Will Be with You

When we came to Brazil in 1936, we were about 50 years old, and our daughter Else was 14 years old. Farm work was not easy for us, especially as we had no comparable experience […]

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The Power of the Cross

The main theme of the apostle Paul’s letters is “the cross.” He was a Hebrew by birth, a teacher by profession, and a born leader with unquenchable zeal and fervent enthusiasm. But the sole subject […]

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The Word of the Cross

Of the many types of crosses on this earth, one cross is of the greatest importance. It is the cross of Calvary. Let us contemplate this cross and ask ourselves: What message does the cross […]

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Victory in Jesus

On a cold winter day, the wife of my employee came to my office. I knew the family well and had supported them many times before. Full of worry, she said, “My husband hasn’t come […]

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My God and I  

God in His wisdom has created us in an amazingly multifaceted and complex way: strong yet vulnerable, fragile yet strong-willed, independent yet dependent, with a deep longing for God while prone to many temptations. He […]

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I Will Be With You

The political developments in the 1930s represented a great danger for Bro. Weissburger as a preacher of Jewish descent. However, God opened a timely door for him by ensuring that he received a call to […]

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Clothed in Humility

One of the most important virtues we can possibly have and pursue is something the Bible calls us to clothe ourselves in like a garment. Whether we are clothed in this virtue or not determines […]

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Pride

Pride has always been one of humanity’s greatest sins. It dragged the Jewish people down like a heavy millstone hanging from their necks, ultimately leading the whole nation to ruin when they rejected Christ as […]

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