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Few thougths up for discussion...

Pastor Tom Dickerson on Luke 14:
about multitudes:
"You are not here to please them, but to teach them GOD" (inspired by Luke 14:25)

"Our role is to teach the church to Love GOD, not just to know about God" (I guess J.I . Packer should revise his book: "Knowing and loving God" :)"

Pastor RIch Chaffin on II.Kings 2
there is a question:
"What do you want?" watch out what is your answer when GOD asks you that question.

II. Kings 3:
Needs for miracles:
1. Obey a command that makes little sence
2. Trust that GOD knows what HE is speaking

there are 2 kinds of people:
1. Working hard and hoping that will do a miracle
2. people who do little but compllaine.

Which one you are/wanna be?


And a last one:

"people can debate your theology, but they can't debate the changed lives. The evidence is love, that can not come from you"

to my fellow american friends

HAPPY THANKSGIVING...
I miss your great meal at this day... :)

Labels...

Finally I got time to play with our blog a little...
I have labeled all our posts...
Here is the conclusion:
1. Way too many thoughts...
2. way less fun and Lea
3. and I definitelly need to improve posting on Bureks... :)

Blogging is fun...

TROUBLE

We are in trouble. Lea is smart. at the age of two she learned how to open a child lock. she is strong enough to open the fridge...
Trouble, trouble...

the 15th anniversary of the fall of Vukovar

15 years ago, on this day, the defense of Vukovar has given up. a 3 month siege of Serbian forces has broken the defense of the city, and 2 days later even the last defenders have given up...in the outskirt calledd Borovo Naselje, where I live right now...

It is scary how much people change during this period.many of them walk like Zombies "reliving" the things that happened to them 15 years ago... many scars are still more then open scars... still arrond 900 Vukovarians are oficcially missing, but unofficially they are dead. laying in a mass grave or shot into danube or something...

Very often we joke about the land mines and everything, but it is a pretty sirious thing... I really look up to the defenders of this city... 1800 of them against a whole army... and basicly they pulled the sting of the bee out... the Serbian army was never the same after the siege of Vukovar...

Vukovar is the reason, Osijek never got conquered. Croatia did not got overrunned.

only 15 years ago...

A medical nurse(who was at the vukovar hospital during the siege) said that she still does not hates serbs or anyone... but she feels the same she felt then: "anger towards the UN and the world...how could they just watch and not do a thing..."

This post might be long...but please stay with me... the whole world was paying attention to Kuvait and Iraq. how often are we the same... our attention is focusing on the big things, on famous things, and we never pay attention to the little things...
I will try to draw a parallel here... Big christian happenings(festivals, conferences etc) verses serving and fighting for my local church...
That other church that is bigger and fancier or, my church that might be only 30-40 people...

Happy birthday LEA

Lea,
You turned two today. two years ago on this day you have arrived to this world.
Since that you traveled a lot. you have been to: Slovakia, Serbia, Slovenia, Austria, Hungary and you constantly live in Vukovar,Croatia.

You were exactly 80 cm and 10 Kilograms on this day...

You were and are a great blessing to us. we have only one request from you:
could you sleep a little more in the next two years... ???

You parents:
Laci and Keri

p.s.on the picture we you are showing how old are you... :)

blogging is a virus...

My friend has a blog anniversary. you can see on his last post that he started cuz others did it...
Well I started because he did it... and I effected few people to start blogging...
Soon people will feel bad if they want have a blog... "you poor blogless people"...
You see blog is just one more thing on which we can seperate...sociologist can study it, and where humanity goes with it is questionable... :)

Grace and Peace:
Lazo von Vukovaren

snowstorm

Today we had crazy snowstorm in Vukovar. out of nowhere in two days GOD turned off the sun, everything got really cold, and today a snowstorm...

here is the pic

Smooth period

Lately I got few friend asking me, "how are you"... (You know those people who do care, not just randomly asking... :) )

And honestly lately I would say that I am relaxed(For the first time in the past 20 months since we are here), and it feels like a smooth time...

Last night I told somone, I am always worried when wthings go smooth...kinda the silence before the storm feeling...
I got advised, enjoy this time...
It was not the best advise...

Today GOD told through Matthew 7:24-27, that since our faith is tested when storm come, I better use this time when it is smooth, for letting GOD build me so when the storms do come...we can stand strong in the LORD.

Use the smooth time to be ready when the "unsmooth" comes.