Devotional on Acts 4:29-31

Text: Acts 4: 29 - 31

"And now Lord, listen to their threats.  Lord, help us, your servants, to speak your word without fear.  Help us to be brave by showing us your power to heal.  Give proofs and make miracles happen by the power of Jesus, your holy servant."  After they had prayed, the place where they were meeting was shaken.  They were all filled with the Holy Spirit, and they spoke God's word without fear.

Devotional:

This moring I was reading the first 4 chapters of Acts and have read all of Acts before.  As I came to this passage, I was thinking  by now Peter and John where already given a hard time for the first time by the Priests, Pharasees and the rest of the High Cousel for healing the crippled/lame man in Jesus Name and preaching to the crowed in the temple, and I know from here on in the persecution just gets worse.

What I come to the conclusion, is that we here in North America as Christians generally have it so good.  If my faith were threatened like in the passage from Acts, how would it hold up?  How equipped would I be to give the right answer when challenged?  Would I be willing to spend a night in jail for my faith?  Sometimes I think we as a society even as Christian don't realize how spoiled we are.  We have so many things to rely on (especially non-believers), that we think we don't need God or God often comes in second or third.  I know in my life it is like that most of the time.  So if I am to give God my all, how much does he require of me?  How much am I willing to give?

From being a new Christian on at the age of 13 or 14 I asked myself:  If all these miraculous things where happening in the book of Acts, and today it is the same Holy Spirit available with the same power for us to extend to others, why isn't more happening?  Or at least that's how I feel.  And I think it is because we, even I rely on so many other things than God, where in a 3rd World country God is most of the time if not all of the time all they have and God shows up, like in the book of Act.

I pray for all of us who need it that we can be open to more of God and less of us and our materialism in our lives (John 3:30).

University of Guelph till now

Hello all it's me once again after a long time.

Tonight I was copying some imformation that I submitted to be added into the Alumni Today 2012 Directory book from the University of Guelph.  I graduated there a little over 10 years ago.  I borrowed the book from a friend of mine who bought the book.  I didn't buy the book because the cost was $100.00, and that was simply way too much especially now that I've looked at it and see how little I would have gotten out of it.  But so after a few months of borrowing the book I finally decided to type out the information I submitted and I thought I could share it here.  By the way that friend said I can borrow the book for as long as I want, but I thought if it's just laying around at home I better get around to type out the information that's important to me and finally return it.  It's one less book laying around in my appartment!  So here's the info I submitted and how it appeared in the directory listing:

EIGENHEER, Markus; DAGR; Cert. Mohawk Clg.; Admin. Support, Christian Horizons West Dist. Ofc., Ste. 101, 4275 King St. E., Kitchener, ON N2P 2E9, 519 650-3241; r:3-768 Stirling Ave. S., Kitchener, ON N2M 3K3, 519 570-9068, marceigenheer@hotmail.com

What’s Been Happenig: After I graduated the University of Guelph 10 years ago I moved to Brampton for a short time, than Hamilton for 2 ½ years and have been living and volunteering/working in Kitchener for the last 6 years I both work and volunteer at Christian Horizon at the West District Office and volunteer at the YMCA.  At Christian Horizons I do Office Admin. Support work.  Data entry and answering the phone, and at the YMCA, I help with folding Towles for the change rooms.  I’m still single and glad to be single at this time.  I also go once a week to visit my sister and her husband as well as their two little daughters 2 and 4years old on the Liebenzell Center by Moffat South East of Guelph.  They are property Managers and Guest Hosts of a 45 acre property for groups to come and have retreats and training.  There’s  always a lot of work to be done, like cutting grass in the summerand splitting wood for fire wood in the winter and and everything in between, like maintaining a natural skating pond.  So I do a lot of volunteering and get my main income from ODSO and some from Christian Horizons and other small sources.

DAGR – Associate Diploma in Agriculture

Baby duckies survive treacherous highway crossing | Sympatico.ca News

Hello everyone

I saw this amazing video clip of a duckling family crossing a busy highway and was amazed.
I thought I had to blog it.  I hope it works.

Cheers,

Markus

Baby duckies survive treacherous highway crossing | Sympatico.ca News

Hanging up Bird Feeders

This past Wednesday I was back at the Liebenzell Center Volunteering.  In the late morning and afternoon Jeff, 2 other volunteers and I were working on building and placing those bird feeders.  They turned out quite well.

Just so you know, because this blog appears at the very top of the webpage, it is not the only blog I wrote today.  If you scroll down, you'll see that I wrote two blogs today.

Christmas and into the New Year 2012

This year as usual I spent the Christmas weekend with mom and dad and for the 23rd in the evening with Glausers, a swiss family we are close to.  However, for the first time ever this year, I felt a need to go back to Kitchener to my own apartment and space from the 26th to the 30th and go back up to mom and dad's for new year's as a seperate weekend.  It felt great, because other years I would spend 10 days at mom and dad's and coming back to Kitchener after that was a big shock.  Also I had more independence.  I went for coffee with a friend of mine on the 28th for a few hours, and at my pastor's house on the 29th I watched "Lord of the Rings" all three movies for a total of almost 9 1/2 hour watching time with breaks in between.  We started at 9:30 am and finished at 7:40 pm.  I was so tired after that.

Over the New Years weekend I went up north to mom and dad again and Ursi with Jeff, Katie and Maya were there too.  We ate chest nuts, played Carcasonne, ate Meat Fondeoue with home grown and cut french fries (the best you can have) and watched 3 episodes of season 7 ER, and before you know it it was 12:00 AM.  2012.

Katie and Maya had lots of fun opening gifts and playing with Grossvati (my dad).
And Grossvati always has lots of fun playing with Katie and Maya.

On January 1st Jeff and I went to the Waldkaffi (Trailer and Fireplace in the bush down by the river).

I should mention that I got a new digital camera from mom and dad for Christmas.

So I'm really excited about it and have lots to learn and take pictures of when I can and use them.

Anyways's that was my Christmas and New Year Season and now I'm back in the swing of things.

I hope you all had a great Christmas season too.