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Pastors’ Meeting of the Evangelical Church in BiH in Bihać

On Wednesday, September 17, 2025, a regular pastors’ meeting of the Evangelical Church in Bosnia and Herzegovina was held in Bihać. The meeting was attended by 20 delegates from various churches across the country. The hosts prepared a warm welcome, which contributed to an excellent working atmosphere. We were especially honored by the presence of guests from the Protestant Evangelical Church in Prijedor, who also participated in the meeting and gave their contribution. For 30 years, the Evangelical Church in Bihać has been sharing the evangelical message of God’s love and hope with the people […]

A Cry from the Darkness

(A Spiritual Reflection for Good Friday – April 18, 2025) Psalm 22, verse by verse, reveals the heart of a man crying out from the darkness. What hurts him most isn’t just the things that come from outside — the insults, the mockery, not even the physical wounds. What cuts the deepest is the feeling of being abandoned. That there is no gaze to meet his. No hand to reach out and touch him. No voice to say, “I’m here.” A person can be hurt by words, attacked physically — but the deeper wound seems […]

Don’t Look Back, My Son!

A Spiritual Reflection for Holy Wednesday – April 16, 2025 In a powerful scene from one of the greatest Yugoslav films, Don’t Look Back, My Son (Ne okreći se, sine)—a film my generation watched countless times—a father sends his son running toward freedom. “Don’t look back!” he tells him, while he himself stays behind—sacrificing his life. The tension is real: the father dies, the son survives. That tension—between life and death, betrayal and faithfulness—echoes in today’s Scripture readings. In today’s Gospel (John 13:21–32), we witness another moment of deep tension: Another son—the son of perdition—Judas […]

Corporate Prayer

Thoughts and Encouragements: Personal and intercessory prayer will remain invaluable throughout our lives as we grow in our relationship with God. However, there is another kind of prayer that brings special strength to our spiritual life and becomes an essential part of the devotion of all who earnestly seek God’s face – corporate prayer. Fellowship plays a crucial role in the life of a Christian. Community dynamics provide a platform for spiritual growth that we cannot experience individually. The community accepts, encourages, inspires, teaches, and corrects us when we go astray. Through participation in corporate […]

Intercessory Prayer

Thoughts and Encouragements: “In intercessory prayer, we pray for others. If we truly love people, we will desire for them far more than is within our power to give them,” says Richard Foster (Prayer, HarperSan Francisco, 1992). Intercession is a priestly task. All who have believed and placed their trust in Christ have been made a royal priesthood. Intercessory prayer is not only an act of love but also an essential part of the Christian calling. There are several key aspects to keep in mind when talking about intercessory prayer. First and foremost, an intercessor […]

Personal Prayer

“When we pray for ourselves, we call it supplication; when we pray for others, we call it intercession.” (Richard J. Foster, Prayer, HarperSan Francisco, 1992). Thoughts and Encouragements: The need for daily, personal prayer reflects our understanding of the fact that we depend on God and His providence if we want to live a fulfilled and purposeful life. It is wrong to think that we will ever outgrow the need to pray for ourselves. Jesus teaches: “Ask, and it will be given to you; seek, and you will find; knock, and it will be opened […]

How Not to Pray

Thoughts and Encouragements: From Scripture, we can learn a lot about how to pray, but we can also find examples of how we should not pray. Jesus speaks in the Gospel of Matthew: “When you pray, do not be like the hypocrites who love to pray standing in the synagogues and on the street corners to be seen by men” (Matthew 6:5). At the time when the New Testament was written, religious leaders were highly regarded people in high positions within society. Jesus refers to them as those who love for society to treat them […]

Prayer as the Foundation of Spiritual Life

Thoughts and Encouragements: Prayer is one of the most important spiritual disciplines, and perhaps the most important. Let me briefly compare building a spiritual life with building a house. Just as the binding material, mortar, holds all the elements of a building firmly together, so prayer permeates and connects everything that has been achieved through other spiritual disciplines. In the spiritual house that God builds in an individual, prayer is an irreplaceable means of communication. Through prayer, we talk to God and He talks to us. Although God has other ways He can speak to […]

“The Church of Tomorrow” – Annual Conference of the Pentecostal European Fellowship (PEF) in Moldova

The morning plenary session on March 5, 2025, in Chișinău (Republic of Moldova) marked the beginning of the annual Conference of the Pentecostal European Fellowship (PEF) with a blessed time of worship, led by the local Elim Church, and the keynote message from Chairman Marek Kaminski on the conference theme, “The Church of Tomorrow.” In the afternoon, the PEF General Assembly took place, presenting reports and plans, as well as electing the new Presidium for the 2025-2028 term. Marek Kaminski was re-elected as Chairman, Friedhelm Holthuis as Vice-Chairman, Dirk Glaser as Treasurer, while Ishan Özbek […]

Your Purpose

Reading: Ephesians 2:1-10 1 And you were dead in the trespasses and sins 2 in which you once walked, following the course of this world, following the prince of the power of the air, the spirit that is now at work in the sons of disobedience— 3 among whom we all once lived in the passions of our flesh, carrying out the desires of the body and the mind, and were by nature children of wrath, like the rest of mankind. 4 But God, being rich in mercy, because of the great love with which […]