Tanja @tanjaostman@dingdash.com
Swedish-speaking Finn from Finland. Wife, mother of one boy (2008). Teaching special education at the local university. I belive that the Organic Church/House Church is the NT way of doing Church. I'm interested in what's going on in the underground Church and I pray for the persecuted Christians.
Joined Jul 2020
We have a grocery store in our city called Asian market, owned by Chinese people. We are frequent customers. But raw frog legs (in the last picture) ... hmm..... 🙊🤔😜 Have you tasted frog 🐸?
A question to Americans! This childrens choir seems to be Mormon. But it's a well known, Christ centered worship song by Mercy Me. It's beautiful! I have seen other videos by young Mormons - songs written by non Mormon Christians. If it wouldn't have been for their clothings, I hadn't guessed their background. In Finland Mormons have a very bad reputation - it's considered a cult here. That's even my view after all I've heard - that they follow Mormon's book, not the Bible. I have also heard that there are minor shifts going on in theology and practice in Salt Lake City... Is it true? Are there true followers of Christ in LDS or is it impossible to be a member and to only follow Christ, without living under a slave yoke of religious duties and heretical teachings? Is it a cult? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=acwsBIl15zM&t=277s
@Cherishingsparrows2020 @Olamide thanks for sharing this article - I loved it!! Spot on!Thanks @Cherishingsparrows2020 for sharing your experiences and thoughts! I agree and recognize what you're sharing. ❤️ Quote: "But many of us know that our really good friendships emerged not by being on a committee with someone, or even attending a Bible study group with them. Friendships are often forged in the conversations that occur when we’re ‘playing’ together. Hanging out, attending parties, camping, hiking, picnicking, goofing off — these are the occasions where people let their guards down and share more deeply."
Timothy* grew up as an orphan in North Korea at the time of the 1990s famine. As a teenager, he decided to cross the Tumen River into China in a bid for survival. This is how coming across a safe house, run by Open Doors partners in China, set him on the path to finding Jesus…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=84IJBESEWfs
We have A LOT of snow on our patio/terrace (or what do you call it in English??). We start to empty it a little so we can put chairs there in a month or so, as the sun 🌞 gets stronger. In the Nordic countries we are sun worshippers. 😉😁 We love it, because we don't have too much of it.
From our kitchen window. Sunset at 4.30 PM, and it's almost -20°C. Still short and cold days.
The pictures to the left: Women in Afghanistan, some decades ago and today. Pictures to the right: Iranian women some decades ago and today. I found this on Soheila Fors' FB page. She is from Iran (lives in Sweden), so I trust what she's telling (even if I can't read the text myself).
Lesbian women's studies professor comes to Christ.
https://youtu.be/dQ_49Qx6KLE
Thank you all for your prayers, and some of you have sent private messages asking how we are doing! I appreciate this DD community! ❤️ Even if we tested positive yesterday, I've had symptoms for 8 days. It hasn't gotten worse, so I see it as a good sign it won't get worse later. I've got the same mild symptoms as when I have the common cold. Not even ache in my muscles or throat. Just coughing when I'm laying down.
My son has lower fever now, so it's going in the right direction.
My husband, who lives a very healthy lifestyle with lots of running and skiing, has been more tired than usual and has the same sensations in his throat - but he's been working all the time (he works from home). I tried to encourage him today to work less, and focus on getting rid of this first. We are having vit C, vit D, zink, echinacea, herbal teas, raw honey, lemon water, chaga and maitake mushrooms (in capsules), breathing essential oils from a diffusor. Tomorrow we will get colloidal silver.
WE HAVE TESTED POSITIVE! I've had mild flu symptoms since last Thursday. I took a home test on Fri, that showed negative. I've been working so far this week, but felt tired, and worked shorter days. My husband had fever one night a couple of days ago, but he's been working as well (you don't easily stop him from working, as he has lots of deadlines and meetings). Our son (13 yrs old) has stayed home from school for two days because of symptoms, and last night he got fever. He's still got quite high fever. Tonight my husband wanted to take home tests, and we all three tested positive. None of us are injected with mRNA or have any particular health issues or diagnoses - so our immune systems are probably intact. But please remember us in your prayers anyway - especially Edvin who has fever!
A second update about my friend Mikael who is still in hospital. Unfortunately they won't let him go because his oxygen saturation is too low. They wanted to put him in IC on ventilator - exactly what's not a good solution (according to many). Both him and his wife have refused it, and it seems like the doctors have respected it if I understood it correctly (we discuss in a Telegram group). His CRP was 84 some hours ago. His wife wrote that they won't let her visit him. We wrote that she should demand that, because she is married to him, and has just recovered from C-19. There is so much strange things going on when it comes to C-19. Why put him on a ventilator when they just have started to give him antibiotics for his pneunomia? And then they report the news about how many unvaccinated they have in IC. Please, pray for a quick recovery and for protection from harmful interventions!
Be faithful in the little things! God can open doors for you in his timing - he knows when you are ready. Be yourself and focus on what God has put in your heart, even if you would be misunderstood by other people. Shouldn't we be more focused on praying God's will be done in other people's lives, than making our own judgments about them? My experience is that God chooses unlikely people anyway... that he will be glorified, not we.
Swedish-speaking Finn from Finland. Wife, mother of one boy (2008). Teaching special education at the local university. I belive that the Organic Church/House Church is the NT way of doing Church. I'm interested in what's going on in the underground Church and I pray for the persecuted Christians.
Joined Jul 2020
