What does Barack Obama, Yasser Arafat, and Mother Teresa have in common?

Sitting and listening to President Obama delivering a speech on unemployment in the United States. I listen and listen, he is incredible, he’s talking and talking and it sounds so good but he says nothing, no solutions, no action, just ‘chewing’. 

What does Barack Obama, Yasser Arafat, and Mother Teresa have in common? Well, they have all received the Nobel Peace Prize. That Mother Teresa got it, is logical and laudable when she devoted her life to improving the world a person at a time. She worked unfaintable in Kolkata slums with street children, lepers and those who were at the absolute bottom of society. 

Alfred Nobel wrote the following in his will as the basis for the Nobel prize, which also Peace Prize, “The whole of my remaining realisable estate shall be disposed of in the following way:
the capital, invested in safe securities by my executors, shall constitute a fund, the interest on which shall be annually awarded as prizes to those who, during the preceding year, shall have conferred the greatest benefit on mankind. The interest shall be divided into five equal parts, to be apportioned as follows:.. … ..  and one part to the person who shall have done the most or the best work for fraternity between the nations and the abolition or reduction of standing armies and the formation and spreading of peace congresses.” 

It is interesting that an inventor of the airplane hijackings and a president who is a professional speaker, which just sends 30,000 man to Afghanistan got the Peace Prize, given what Alfred Nobel wrote his will in what would be the basis for the Peace Prize. Giving Obama Peace Prize, which is like handing out gold medals to the athletes before the Olympics, everyone’s a chance to succeed. The day Obama got to know he would get the price, he sent 30,000 soldiers to Afghanistan where they will wage war, to pretend that it is only about peacekeeping forces is of course pure nonsense, war is about one thing, to destroy the enemy and win. If an officer says ngt otherwise it’s just war propaganda. 

  

Mats-Jan

Testing blog function in Word

Well, I am testing the fantastic blog function in Word for windows 2007. I’ve been using it for my Swedish blog for quite a while and am totally sold out. It’s easy to set up, easy to use and works flawless.

So now I will be writing my English blog more frequent as well because it’s that easy to do it. Someone said ‘price and convenience’ when selling something and that’s really true, and today when life is pretty fast running and there are so much to do and to be done time is of the essence.

So if you are interested sign up to follow the new blog, will try to update at least every second day with something concerning mission or marketing, strange combination but I am a pretty strange guyJ

 

Mats-Jan

Small snake!

Check out this snake, nice!

Mats-Jan

As a child!

Today I spent almost all day with my 6 year old son, what a wonderful time there is to be children. He asks and I reply, he asks again and I say again, he asks … Jesus said we must turn and become like children if we are to enter the kingdom of God. Luke is a child, a 6year old. I tell my 16 year old son the only difference between a 6year old and 16year old is number one before the! Luke’s innocent and extremely curious. He will be space scientist when he grows up. Today, he scratched my back in the morning because I bribed him with me to give him something if he did it. He did not know what and neither I for that matter. After an hour he asked if we would go to the toy store and buy toy, I said I was not promising you a toy, an hour later, he wondered if we would go to the store and buy a candy bag to him as I promised, I said I did not promise him a candy bag but something. He was firmly convinced that what dad promised he would keep! It moved my heart.

A couple hours later we ended up at the Moll and I would now fulfill my promise, we lomme off first towards the supermarket, but I stopped and said we are going the other direction instead, I had an idea. I said I will give you something for your brain to work. He saw the Gamestore and exclaimed, ‘Yes, a PS 2 game, a cheap in the box’ (he knows that itch on your back is not enough for a full-price version, see the free market mentality), I walked past the Game and enter the college bookstore and 6year old exclaims, ‘No, not a book, I hate to read books, it sucks’ (vocabulary from 16 year old) But I got resulut into the children’s section to get what just popped up in my mind, ‘How does it work’ books. Now there was no such but a ‘Kluringarna in big wide world’. The 6year old tried with a book about the Vikings, another on piratologi and another, with parts to build a truck, in a book! Creative to say the least!

But I was firm and I gently persuaded him that this particular book fits both because of content and price, 69kr on sale, just what the itch on your back might be worth.

A few hours later, it was bedtime and time to read the book, which first sucked, then been avoided but now it was the best thing that happened to him, for now he would learn maths, he will be the best in the whole kindergarten in, mathematics. We laid down in bed and slowly I read paragraph by paragraph, looking at pictures, read captions. It begun with the solar system, 6year old, to be space scientists are studying each picture, text box (though he can not read yet, he absorbs himself in each letter) asking about how the earth spins, and how big the sun is relative to the earth. Suddenly he says ‘It takes one month for the moon to rotate around the Earth’! I look at him in surprise and asks, ‘How do you know? “He replies briefly,’ I just know it ‘! We finish reading in  the book and he huddle themselves besides me and whispers ‘ Dad. that book is super, thank you! “

It is clear that my father’s heart beats a few extra kind! Then he says ‘Today I give you 6 kisses instead of three kisses,’ “and disappears into his bunk bed. I get my six kisses and go wondering into my little office, thinking: ‘He knows nothing about any problems in the world, he is innocent, curious, searching for knowledge, excited about what the future will invite him and I realize that I, as a middle-aged father has a tremendous responsibility to keep this curious, hungry flame alive, and I ask the Lord to preserve his innocent and hungry heart.

Mats-Jan

Google russian / Русский Google

I will try to use google translate to run a russian blog! It will probably sound a bit funny time to time but I will still try it out

I will be thankful for any comments about how the quality is in russian

Я постараюсь использовать Google Translate для запуска Русский блог! Это будет возможно, звучат немного смешной времени, но я все равно попробуйте ее

Я буду благодарна за любые замечания о том, как качество на русском языке

Благослови
Bless

Mats-Jan

Comeback!

Wonderful! This week I have started working a little bit again, after nearly three-month sick leave and vacation, it feels wonderful to begin again. During the week I left the marketingdepartmern at Word of Life and Johan Ericsson has begun instead of me.

I’m starting on the missionsdepartment again and is planning to travel and preach as much I can (have to take it easy and careful, have my wonderful pastor admonished me, yes, yes I am listening:)

Together with Roar Sörensen and Lennart Fjell we have begun to work with, just that, launching next years Israel tour, it will be something extra ordinary. I personally think that the trip we usually do is already super packed and a great experience of the Land of Israel and the biblical sites, fellowship with Christians from many countries and wonderful meetings with preaching from the Word. But this tour next year, don’t miss it!!

I will write regularly about the backstage stuff is happening around Israel at this trip, so hang with both the blog and the trip next year.

Date? 31/8-8/9

Check http://www.livetsord.se//default.aspx?idStructure=5581&language=en

Mats-Jan

Bibleschool!

Then it gets rolling and it was so nice today when the Word of Life Bible College started with several hundred students. 

Worship arose and hands were lifted, now we are here and spends a year or 2 in order to seek the Lord and His Word, His will for our lives. Pastor Ulf spoke so sweetly of the Father, Son and Holy Spirit as the God we know. 

I have great expectation for what God will do tomorrow when we will pray for all pupils, God is a miracle doer and He loves His children and wants to bless and pour yourself over them. 

Imagine what good that will come out of these students in future

 

Mats-Jan

Bibleschool begins!

Today Word of Life Bible School starts in Uppsala, it started 26 years ago, not bad at all. I am sitting and thinkng about how it was when I went to bible school in 1987, it is a looong time ago!

The week before I could move to Uppsala from the little town I had chickenpox (?), I had nowhere to live and no job or for that matter. But went I did the day it started, I had just become free from infection. I had got hold of a place to stay on Saturday before it started and moved in with a guy I knew through a friend who then got a job for me at a hotel dishwasher / kitchen worker. So I got a place to stay for him and he got a job for me and we have remained good friends since that year, great.

Bibleschool was revolutionary in many ways, the discipline, communitybut above all was the Bible, which opened up through all the good teaching we received.

Now I’ll go to the startup myself, many years has passed and now I teach myself the subject of Mission at the first year, see what God is doing through time!

 

Mats-Jan

Friends

Tommorrow me and my wife aregoing to celebrate a good friends 50th birthday, Jan Rosman, down in Norrköping. First time we came to visit them many years ago he proposed us to put our tent in their garden. II didn’t really understand it was yoke thought to myself, being a missionary in the Ukraine at the time, Swedes are strange. Placing the sunday morning preacher in a tent in the garden, quite unheard of  inmost other corners of the world.

But when arriving they of course placed us in a nice and cosy guestroom in their mansion like house.

God bless Jan on your 50th birthday!

Mats-Jan

Pray for Vietnam!

 

Women ine Vietnam

I read on the Charisma Magazine’s website that Christians in Vietnam have a tough situation where the police storm house meetings and disrupt housechurches life in several ways. 
Especially northern Vietnam is exposed where the Communist regime has a stronger foothold than down in the south. Vietnam is a wonderful country with happy and open people. I was privileged to visit Hanoi a couple of years ago and meet many Christians there, most were new saved with a lovely glow for Jesus and the joy of salvation. 

There are over 90 million people in this country which is not larger in area at all but the church as a whole is not so huge, but some parts of the country is in principle unreached with the gospel. 

Pray for these brave and at the time of writing, suffering brothers and sisters that the Lord will strength them and lead them. 

Be that as it is meant to harm them will contribute to further spread the gospel beyond Vietnam

 

Mats-Jan