Easter for Software Developers
· reading time: ca. 2 min.Easter and arrays have more in common than you might think. Jesus' crucifixion and resurrection show how easy it is to get numbers wrong …
Artificial Intelligence (part 1)
· reading time: ca. 3 min.Jesus accepts us as we are, but also gives us strength for positive change. Christian faith gives security in social changes …
Why did Jesus have to die?
· reading time: ca. 5 min.Jesus' death shows us what God is like and how He relates to us humans. For believing Christians, His death means that they have eternal life …
What is the difference between Christianity and yoga? (part 3)
· reading time: ca. 9 min.A recent WDR documentary reports critically about yoga. Based on my previous experience with yoga, I give my assessment of it …
Charity
· reading time: ca. 10 min.Christian faith is not mainly about being a good person, but about our relationship with God. God helps us to do good …
Mission
· reading time: ca. 9 min.Mission means passing on information and experiences about the Christian faith that you rarely hear in the media. Those who seek God can find him …
Second-class Christians?
· reading time: ca. 4 min.When it comes to faith, it is the personal decision that counts, not the lineage. Whether we are raised Christian or not: we have peace in Jesus …
What is the Holy Spirit? (part 2)
· reading time: ca. 7 min.God is all-powerful, but we must exercise caution in our demands. Every Christian has different gifts. God's word does not always correspond to our desires …
What is the Holy Spirit? (part 1)
· reading time: ca. 7 min.As part of the Trinity, He mediated between God and the prophets. He worked many miracles and guides believing Christians through their lives even today …
How can I experience God?
· reading time: ca. 10 min.When you take time for God, He shows Himself in many situations: Not only in prayer and Bible reading, but also in other people or in nature …
Why is there suffering in the world? (theodicy)
· reading time: ca. 12 min.Suffering arises from free will. Christian faith can help us to deal with it better. With eternity in mind, every suffering seems small …
Man and Woman (part 2)
· reading time: ca. 7 min.Men and women have different emotional needs, studies also show. The Bible can help us to better understand the opposite sex …
Man and Woman (part 1)
· reading time: ca. 7 min.In Christianity, (monogamous) marriage is not simply a commandment. Stages in life such as engagement and marriage are symbolic of the path to God …
Did Jesus really exist?
· reading time: ca. 8 min.Extra-biblical sources show that Jesus really lived. Roman and Greek records have parallels to the Bible …
What is the difference between Christianity and yoga? (part 2)
· reading time: ca. 12 min.As yoga center employee, I experienced that spirituality and work were closely connected. As a Christian, I will go to heaven without any prior achievement …
What is the difference between Christianity and yoga? (part 1)
· reading time: ca. 6 min.Yoga is a religious system in which one is rewarded and punished over many lifetimes. The Christian God gives eternal life after death …
What distinguishes Christianity from other religions?
· reading time: ca. 4 min.Several points make Christianity unique: We have the certainty of going to heaven. Even in this life, God takes care of us …
How to become a Christian?
· reading time: ca. 10 min.One becomes a Christian through a personal decision of faith, not because one is a member of a church. To do this, one must understand the message of Jesus …
Why the Bible as a basis?
· reading time: ca. 6 min.God has left us an "instruction manual" for life so that we can find Him. As Christians, this gives us a common foundation …
Which Bible translations are there?
· reading time: ca. 2 min.The Bible was written in Hebrew and Greek. There are various dynamic and formal equivalence translations, as well as interlinear translations …
Trinity
· reading time: ca. 4 min.God is made up of three persons - Father, Son and Holy Spirit - just as water appears as steam or ice. God also invites us to a relationship …
What are the "four solae"?
· reading time: ca. 2 min.The "four solae" summarize the Reformation: Only through personal faith that Jesus died for our faults do we go to heaven …