Oslo International Church
Conversations, reflections and other stuff from OiC. Listen to our weekly Sunday Reflections from Oslo, Norway – from wherever you are.
Episodes
Mar 7, 2022
Mar 7, 2022
23 min
Praying the prayer that Jesus taught his disciples is a formative practice that shapes the way we approach the Father. But is that all it does? Did Jesus actually mean to say that "everyone who seeks finds"? And how much do we have to "believe" it for our prayers to "work"?
This week Jesse Ophoff looks at Luke 11:1-13 and kind of faith it takes to pray the Jesus-way.
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Feb 27, 2022
Feb 27, 2022
22 min
About hidden things and heavenly fire…
This week Maicon Steuernagel reflects on some cryptic words of Jesus, and talks about the danger of keeping knowledge and power away from our hearts, and our hearts isolated.
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Feb 21, 2022
Feb 21, 2022
16 min
What do we do with the words of Jesus when they sound like “bad news” for us?
Brooke Ophoff looks into Luke chapter 6 at the blessings and woes described by Jesus in the Sermon on the Plain.
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Feb 18, 2022
Feb 18, 2022
24 min
What does it entail to make oneself a guest? And what when that guest is God himself?
This week Maicon Steuernagel wonders over a norwegian word in a story about death, life and compassion.
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Feb 7, 2022
Feb 7, 2022
20 min
What was so bizarre about the way Jesus called his first followers, and how has it come to seem so normal for us today?
This week Jesse Ophoff highlights a few things we can learn about what it means to be called by this fish whispering, demon slaying, party throwing rabbi.
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Feb 2, 2022
Feb 2, 2022
33 min
"... one more powerfull than I will come"
John the baptist speaks of Jesus as the chosen one of God, bearer of divine power and confirmed by divine revelation. But what does this power look like, and what will Jesus do with it?
This week Maicon Steuernagel wonders with Jesus into the wilderness, where he confronts the temptations of economical, political and religious power.
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Jan 26, 2022
Jan 26, 2022
21 min
Why did Jesus have to be baptized, and what does this have to do with the Creation story in Genesis? What was God doing before creation? And what does all of this reveal about our identity?
This week, Kristine Tveit dives with Luke into the baptism of Jesus by John the Baptist.
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Jan 17, 2022
Jan 17, 2022
19 min
Baby Pictures...
This week Jesse Ophoff asks what we have to learn from Jesus the 12-year-old about church, doubt, growth, and pain.
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