Dear Members and Friends of IBCZ, Perhaps you have heard of the recent change in the federal regulations regarding church worship services. I want to pass this information on to you so there will be no misunderstanding. The government has ruled that beginning March 1, no singing is allowed in
Continue readingDear Members and Friends of IBCZ, A few months ago, in a sermon I quoted the poem Life Is but a Weaving, that Corrie ten Boom often recited to audiences around the world. The poem pictures in a beautiful and insightful way how God is always at work, even in
Continue readingDear Members and Friends of IBCZ, I want to give you an update regarding our worship services as it regards meeting together again for “in person” worship. The Elders and Deacons met this past Wednesday evening to discuss this, and then the Elders considered it again at our regular monthly
Continue readingDear Members and Friends of IBCZ, When we lived in Malaysia (immediately prior to coming to Switzerland), we would sometimes get invited out to eat with friends from our church. On occasion they would take us to restaurants we could never enter on our own. These were private clubs, often
Continue readingDear Members and Friends of IBCZ, (The message this week is from Lindy Hirt, who serves as our liaison with The Open Door Foundation, which ministers to women and girls who have been rescued from human trafficking. In addition, she has included several pictures of the van this ministry was
Continue readingDear Members and Friends of IBCZ, Last Sunday I began a new sermon series on the Book of Hebrews, this wonderful account of the supremacy of Christ in all things. In the introductory first three verses, we encounter an interesting phrase I did not have time to explain in the
Continue readingDear Members and Friends of IBCZ, It is good to be back with you after several weeks of vacation with our family in the US. We had a wonderful time and are so grateful for the time we shared with our loved ones. And now we are glad to be
Continue readingAfter Christmas is a good time to reflect on this event, especially this time when activities have been much reduced. In „normal“ years the main event – coming of Jesus – gets often submerged in the hectic activities oft the Christmas time. The old testament talks about the coming of
Continue readingIn John 15 Jesus uses the relationship of branches to the vine to illustrate our relationship to Him, “I am the true vine, and My Father is the vinedresser. “Every branch in Me that does not bear fruit, He takes away; and every branch that bears fruit, He prunes it so that it
Continue readingDear members and friends of IBCZ, In the times of prophet Hosea, the people of Israel had started to worship the Syrian-Palestinian weather god (or gods), Baal, and were involved in various religious acts according to the worshipping habits “demanded” by this god. This came in strong contradiction with their
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