Author Archives: Bert Hielema

March 9 2022 TIME TO PRAY. What will you do on the day of reckoning, when disaster comes from afar? To whom will you run for help? Where will you leave your riches? (Isaiah 10:3). I have been re-reading a … Continue reading →

March 2 2022. PUTIN’S MARCH OF FOLLY.  We live in interesting times, which, by the way, is a Chinese curse. That matters are not normal, is beyond question. Normality presupposes life ruled by ‘norms’, a concept that implies ‘ethics’, a set … Continue reading →

February 23 2022 IS GOD GONE? There’s a curious text in Deuteronomy 32: 20:  I will hide my face from them,” he said, “and see what their end will be; for they are a perverse generation, children who are unfaithful. … Continue reading →

A SONG AND A PRAYER. February 16, 2022 Something completely different! New times: new songs, songs reflecting our earth, the place God gave us to inhabit for eternity, and new prayers as we await his coming. THE LORD’S PRAYER in … Continue reading →

February 9 2022 EVERYTHING BECOMES WHAT IT IS. That’s what Revelation, the last Bible book is all about. It exposes the LIE of our economic and ecclesiastical situation, and thereby indicate that the END is here. Here are some of … Continue reading →

 February 2 2022. It’s a dreadful thing to fall into the hands of the living God. (Hebrew 10:31) A TERRIBLE TEXT: WHY? Animal carcasses litter the land in areas where the rains have failed, as millions go without enough food … Continue reading →