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English · 03. Dezember 2018

The Levitation of St. Joseph of Copertino or St. Copetrtino (1603-1663) is a well-documented case about the free flying of a human being without aids. St. Joseph of Copertino sometimes hovered only a few centimeters above the ground, but also flew high into the air. This happened partly in front of large crowds all over Italy. The process of his canonization included a detailed examination. In this case, many written records, including 150 eyewitness accounts, were evaluated with detailed...

English · 27. November 2018

I stood near the exit leaning against a column and watched as the visitors of the divine service gradually left the room. Then suddenly a young man unknown to me came up to me and spoke to me: "Could I talk to you? Such a thing is not unusual after a service and so I answered without hesitation:" Yes, of course! What is it about? He said, without showing even the slightest emotion, "I am possessed by demons! Surprised, I looked at the young man, but could not see anything remarkable about him....

English · 26. November 2018

"It is perhaps the most successful coup of the devil, the modern and enlightened people of today, to make them believe that he, the devil, did not exist" (anonymous) For centuries, people in the so-called Occident agreed that the devil and his demons were doing their mischief here on earth. People are tormented and seduced by them. They are a permitted scourge of God to test and punish people. Then the Age of Enlightenment began, the "truths" of the Bible began to be questioned more and more,...

English · 20. November 2018

In 1987 a large faith conference took place in Frankfurt am Main. It was announced as a five-day Fire Conference with the promising subtitle: Evangelism with Signs and Miracles At that time I was very close to a Bible school where I had begun a theological education. But I probably wouldn't have ended up at that Fire Conference if there hadn't been a lack of folders. So some of us Bible students were recruited. I was one of them. The conference took place in the large exhibition halls. Several...

English · 17. November 2018

"I hear the message well, but I have no faith!" (Heinrich Faust) The Christian message - about Jesus to God - has spread worldwide. There may be people who may never have heard or understood this message. But I think that a large part of humanity feels the same way as Heinrich Faust did in Goethe's tragedy. You heard the message and somehow understood it, but you remained unbelieving. This can have several reasons, but the most obvious is of course that there is no clear (objective) proof of...

English · 08. November 2018

In his book "The Happiest People on Earth" Demos Shakarian reports in chapter 10 about a week-long evangelization in Haiti in 1960. It had been a personal invitation of the then feared military dictator Francois Duvalier ("Papa Doc") as a kind of "thank you" for help after a natural disaster. An evening event in the stadium of Port-au-Prince threatened to degenerate into a disaster of a completely different kind. About 300 voodoo priests had mixed among the 35,000 visitors, dressed in blood red...

English · 04. November 2018

Dieter Steffens, captain of a sea rescue cruiser, was in the German North Sea in 1990: " Then I suddenly heard something rushing, I looked, it was at night, it was about 11.30 p.m., and then I heard something and looked, I looked and looked up and said to my colleagues: "Hang on tight, there's something coming in huge! There we had got, as they say nowadays, such a Kaventsmann, such a huge wave. It was about, I don't know, 10 meters high, our boat is 10.50 meters high, you had to definitely...

English · 02. November 2018

I wrote the first account, O Theophilus, of everything that Jesus began to do and teach until the day he was received [into heaven], after he had commanded the apostles whom he had chosen through the Holy Spirit. To them, even after his suffering, he proved to be alive through many sure signs, appearing to them for 40 days and talking about the kingdom of God. With these words the Acts of the Apostles of Luke begins. And he immediately makes it unmistakably clear that the resurrection of Jesus...

English · 02. Juli 2018

I could understand someone commenting on the apartment story with a superficial: "Lucky! Because calling somewhere at just the right time can happen." But there is another essential element in my story. Namely, to call this sudden inner urge at that landlady. As if someone had told me: "You have to call there now!" How right this time was becomes clear from the background story. The coincidence that favors me immensely. Mrs M., a 70-year-old pensioner, had advertised on Wednesdays in a...

English · 28. Juni 2018

When we speak of "coincidence", we usually mean an event that occurs relatively unexpectedly and surprises us somewhat. Often we also speak of a strange coincidence, where the very thought that there might be a higher chance. Often it is also the case that in retrospect one can recognize a real chain of chance that leads to the conclusion that fate or higher powers have reigned. And then one should no longer speak of a random chain, but rather of a joining chain. I would now like to take a...