Category Archives: Gedankensplitter

Sermon on 1.Corinthians 2,1-10

Posted on January 18, 2018 by Wilhelm Weber

Not knowing, who would be at the divine service this afternoon, I prepared two sermons, one in English (1Cor2,1-10 13.1.2018 OLS2) and one in German (1Kor2,1-10 13.1.2018 OLS3), both on the prescribed lesson by St.Paul to the Corinthians for the 2nd … Continue reading →

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People on the way

Posted on January 7, 2018 by Wilhelm Weber

What shall I say? These last hours have been quite a jump from O.R. Tambo to Frankfurt via Dubai and now I’m on the final stretch to Wittenberg and just getting past Leipzig traveling by train (ICE 692 which goes … Continue reading →

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Kwaheri, my geliefde

Posted on December 2, 2017 by Wilhelm Weber

Somewhere – it might have been the “Rapport” or “Beeld” this biography[1] of Dutch Reformed (“Hervormd” – NHK)[2] missionaries, pastors and their families was reviewed and I ordered a copy. It’s been in my shelf for quite a while, until … Continue reading →

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Rogue Lawyer (John Grisham)

Posted on November 12, 2017 by Wilhelm Weber

I’ve confessed before, that I like reading John Grisham. Travelling for a few hours on Kenya Air and without a workable loudspeaker (I wanted to watch the film “Bucketlist” with Jack Nicholson and Morgan Freeman ), I somewhat grudgingly scanned … Continue reading →

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Matins in the morning: Lk.19,1-10

Posted on October 26, 2017 by Wilhelm Weber

Here is my sermon this morning on our Lord IX visiting Zaccheus based on St.Luke’s gospel chapter 19,1-10: 

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Pianos, trumpets & marmite sandwiches

Posted on July 20, 2017 by Wilhelm Weber

  That’s definitely one of the privileges of being a pastor’s and missionary’s kid: Sitting at table with pastors, teachers, bishops and other friends of the holy Christian church. One of these friends was Onkel Siegfried Karl Hermann Damaske  (*25.5.1932 … Continue reading →

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A change is as good as a holiday, they say.

Posted on July 15, 2017 by Wilhelm Weber

I still remember going to the KNP with part of my in-laws large family. They were 9 kids too like us back home. Back then in the late eighties we had such a good time in Skukuza and surrounds, that … Continue reading →

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A day in paradise lost…

Posted on June 20, 2017 by Wilhelm Weber

My clock strikes 2 beats more than it’s supposed to. Perhaps it’s trying to tell me something. Perhaps it’s already later in the day, than I assumed. Even as the terrible news of Otto Warmbier sinks in, the catastrophes of … Continue reading →

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People big and small

Posted on March 25, 2017 by Wilhelm Weber

Tis a blissful autumn day in our capital. People are going about their early morning business without too much care on their faces. Two little girls were paying for their sausage-rolls at my egg-vendor. Smaller than my nieces Andile and … Continue reading →

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Rex Christe, factor omnium

Posted on February 3, 2017 by Wilhelm Weber

Christe, du Schöpfer aller Welt, du König, der die Gläub’gen hält, weil unser Bitten dir gefällt, nimm unser Loblied an, o Held. Kein Maß hat deine Gnad gekannt, hat in Geduld mit starker Hand durch Leid am Kreuz gelöst das … Continue reading →

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