Running

Suddenly I felt an urge to start running the marathon again. Very fortunate that I live in this little 700 inhabitant beach/forest-village the. 

This "city-sign" says; "Welcome to Fjellerup => the city by forest and beach".

There's so many great places to go running, and every time I go for a run I feel so sorry for the people who don't find the time to appreciate Gods nature!

In a hectic everyday life I often forget to give God the glory and appreciation, but every single time I'm running, the nature around me just cries out how amazing the creator of heaven and earth is!!! When I go running in the nature, nothing can convince me about anything else than that God is real! My Lord and Savior reigns!!

Fruit of the Spirit tattoo

This was my very first tattoo which I got at the christian metal festival BobFest in Sweden 2005. It's placed on my upper left shoulder. 

I'm talking about the "fruit of the Spirit" in the loooong blog beneath about Gods unconditional love.

Gods unconditional love!

I wrote these thoughts (and feelings) down after reading one of Pastor Bobs blogs:

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It's so easy as humans not to put each other in "I-know-your-type"-boxes, when we meet, see or hear about someone. It's probably impossible..? It's hard for me not to try and categorize how bad a specific sin is. But God sees the full picture, and I can't thank Him enough that He is the one who'll judge us.

We would all be doomed if we as humans had the commandment to judge each other. Still it can be hard not to... ...Which we also see it the news worldwide everyday.

The AWESOME thing is that God knows us completely! And still He urges to have fellowship with us!! Even me.

I try to live by the fruit of the Spirit:

=> Gal.5,22-23: "Love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, mildness and self control ..."

Still it happens that I steal peoples joy without wanting to. Jesus said, that if I look at another mans wife with lust in my eyes/mind, I'm guilty in breaking the law.

The guy on the cross beside Jesus got saved ONLY by unconditional love. He believed in Christ and got saved! Without unconditional love NO-ONE of us would go to Heaven.

Not all who call themselves "christians" go to Heaven. It's not the label that saves. And I believe that people who seek God and lay their guilt, shame and pain at the cross of Christ will be saved though they won't label themselves "christians"... For many reasons:

=> Don't fell that they are "good enough" or simply because the word "christian" has extremely bad associations in the mind of many people.

We are all humans (in good and bad) in this world with human thoughts, actions and feelings. Personally, I can't follow a leader (but Christ!) if he tells me that he is perfect or if he tells me that he has got the absolute truth in every detail.

The first and second commandment:

=> Mark 12,30-31: "Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind and with all your strength. The second is this: Love your neighbor as yourself."

I often fail at doing that!

We are all on our way in life, and for christians a life in relationship with God where we grow in the knowledge about Him and His love for us. If it wasn't for Gods unconditional love and His mercy and grace I would have had nothing! He is my everything.

In the Old Testament we see our holy and righteous God who can't endure sin. God is still the same and still just as holy today!

In the New Testament Christ broke the death, bought us free, buried our sins (if we accept Christ as our savior) and is winning people by His love.

=> Romans 10,4: "Christ is the end of the law so that there may be righteousness for everyone who believes."

Man, Gods love IS unconditional! Otherwise NO-ONE will be saved. The dude on the cross beside Christ. And Christ forgiving sins and healing people on the spot, when all they could do was to believe in Him and receive. Then, AFTER receiving His unconditional love we can do good deeds with thanks.

=> 1 John 4,19: "We love because he first loved us." 

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Be sure to check out Pastor Bobs blogging at   MySpace.com/PastorBobBeeman

"Andreas believes in God - and heavymetal"

=> The title of the 1,5 minutes sound-picture profile-"article" mentioned in the "New Breed Festival" post beneath.

Here's the link if you wanna see the sound-picture-video:

http://medianet.djh.dk/mm/2008e/tro/min-tro/min-tro_forside

(It'll only be on the internet for a short while...)

New Breed Festival

We (Solace The Day) did a gig in Herning on Saturday. A one day event with 8 promising upcoming bands (mainly metal). It was an awesome day/night and a very cool first gig for our new lead-vocalist, Magnus.

The very best thing about this night was all the talks, meeting folks and connecting with people, and that's what Solace The Day is all about (+ a lot more :-) !

The picture is taken by a journalist photographer who came to the show to meet Solace The Day and write about me => Living my life in relationship with a loving God, and loving extreme metal at the same time.

Traveling seminar

This morning I did a 45 minutes seminar for 100 students at the boarding school here in the village Fjellerup. I talked about how important it is for young people to travel and experience other parts of the world.

I see a big tendency among people who never leave their country, that they get convinced that MY COUNTRY IS THE BELLY BUTTON OF THE WORLD..! In every single country you'll find people who're convinced that they're the center of the world.

I talked about cool, crazy and fascinating facts about Nepal, the people and culture + told crazy and awesome stories from when I, as a 17 year old kid, traveled Nepal and India for 4 month with my brother.

These pictures are taken from a 5 weeks trekking/expedition trip in the Himalayas where we also conquered the summit of Island Peak ( 6.189 meters / 20.305 foot ).