Nanna Rosengård
Nanna Rosengård

Dr. Nanna Rosengård

Proud Swedish-speaking Finn. Missionary, previously stationed in South Africa, now in Athens. Loves meeting people heart-to-heart, fascinated by language, culture and identity, interested in a healthy lifestyle and gladly digs in flowerbeds when given the chance. Doctor in Theology/Jewish Studies. Feels the joy of creation together with my Canon 7D.

Extremely excited that Jesus has set us free to live in freedom – from condemnation, expectations and sin. I live for others to feel more life, and wish to be more aware of Jesus' presence everywhere and in everyone.

The breakthrough.

Yesterday it finally hit me. All of a sudden I got it. Why I've been so down and uninspired. It's the process of getting adjusted to a place.  Culture shock. Honeymoon is followed by a less pleasant...

A Finnish soul.

Imorse gjorde jag en stor och överraskande upptäckt. Samtidigt som det inte var en upptäckt alls, för jag har alltid känt mig mer finsk än svensk.Identitet är en ständig källa till fascination, tycke...

Before and after Christmas.

Tonight it was like it finally dawned on my Greek teacher that there are three women in the class that have been in Greece less than three months - compared to the rest who has been here είκοσι δύο...

The Ugly Duckling.

You know the story. The famous Danish tale. The little duckling who is so ugly and of whom is made fun of by his siblings. Who is grey and clumsy. And one day he grows up. And he sees himself - graci...

On perfection.

I love it. Yesterday in our service the pastor was preaching on the holy communion. This is always the time I'm afraid that I'll be encouraged to remember my sin, but not so with this awesome man, wh...

An angel.

- "Imagine. All through the pregnancy my wife hated that child," he said as we were watching beautiful Mobina playing with her 4-month-old daughter. "And do you know she was born three weeks late? Ev...

Mark 14.

It is like I don't dare believing it. How good and prepared it is, I mean. While still in South Africa a few people had "words" for me how Jesus would do everything for me in Greece. Darling Suné tal...

Simple.

Someone wrote about me that I believe in the simplicities of the gospel.And I'm like, the gospel is simplicity! There is nothing complicated about what Paul calls "my gospel".That's the whole deal ab...

The driving force.

He had compassion on them.The beginning of this year was the heaviest time period I have ever been through. (Enough time has past now to talk about it.) It wasn't like I was suicidal, but I would end...

Eternal life. Heaven.

Eternal life. Heaven.

It happens more often than not that I go to a normal church and feel totally out of place. Like I belong to a completely different religion. (I probably shouldn't be saying this, taken that I'm an of...

Obdience rather than sacrifice.

Obdience rather than sacrifice.

This week I went with my mother to a prayer meeting in an old fisherman's cottage in our region. (Check out the interior design. Big time Finland nostalgia.) Ahhhh, how I love to pray - and especiall...

What made me happy today.

Some days even amazon.com gives you a pleasant surprise. This morning was one of those. And so it was, that I downloaded a sample to my Kindle called The Logic of His Love. Yup, it is Francois du Toi...

What happened to love?

Seriously. With all the talk about the world being in a financial crisis (NB - "the world" = Europe and Northern America) I am wondering whatever happened to God's love. In particular when Christians...

Glory revealed.

I'm busy enjoying. Some people may call it hormones, foolishness... Today as I went to church Jesus spoke to me saying that loving Him is also loving people. Being satisfied. Enjoying everything life...

Great times.

One of this week's devotions in my class was about the goodness of God. (Ja, it's a topic I don't think they can get too much of.) I had them meditate on a quote by Francois Du Toit, saying,Jesus did...

The Shepherd.

The Shepherd.

One of the mornings I had my students to read and meditate on Ps. 23. One of them came back saying, "There is nothing in this Psalm about what I have to do! It's all about what God is doing for me."...

Unconditional love?

Rodolpho always has the best questions. Who knew that under those curly locks and behind the teasing smile hides a world of insightful contemplation. This week's question was,- "Is God's love uncondi...

Where you go and where you stay.

One of these days I was trying to ask Jesus about my future, in particular next year.- "Where should I go? India? Brazil? Europe? Stay in South Africa?" And he answered,- "Where you go, I go and wher...

Fear.

"Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness that most frightens us.' We ask ourselves, Who am I to be b...

Spirit and flesh.

The Word doesn't need to become spirit. The Word is spirit. It needs to become flesh.- Francois Du Toit

Now you are a lioness.

I love the part in the Chronicles of Narnia (Prince Caspian) where Lucy meets with Aslan."I saw you all right. They wouldn't believe me. They're all so—"From somewhere deep inside Aslan's body there...

West vs. East.

West vs. East.

"There are many more people among us in India who lead a spiritual life than in the West, although they do not know or confess Christ. It is of course true that people who live in India worship idols...

Without a choice.

Love is not a feeling - love is a choice.So they say, but I must beg to differ. Love is overwhelming. It is intoxicating. God is love. The essence of God is not choice. And the essence of love is not...

Spiritual anorexia.

- "But I am not perfect. I am not mature. I sin all the time!"Really?It's like a lot of us have spiritual anorexia - we are super skinny, but when we look in the mirror we see this fat person. And th...

Upon perfection.

Therefore let us leave the elementary doctrine of Christ and go on to maturity, not laying again a foundation of repentance from dead works and of faith toward God Heb. 6:1I'm pondering perfection la...

To miss it.

Sometimes I wonder if the Christian tradition has ascribed more weight to the concept of sin than was originally intended. Some words have just become so loaded that they are out of this world, out o...

Mysticism.

Throughout history there has been those that endeavored to have experiences outside of the intellectual mind. They wanted to know the Divine in a more intimate way, where the Divine became flesh. The...

There is something about love.

I no longer fear God. I have come to love him,for perfect love casts out fear.(Abba Antony, a Coptic Church Father who lived 254-356 AD)

Evangelism made easy.

Evangelism made easy.

I don't know about you, but for me and a lot of people the word evangelism fills us with dread. The thought of having to convince someone that they are a sinner and the truth of Jesus just seems inmo...

Oh, culture.

Oh, culture.

Can I just share something from my culture? So, today my sister posted an article from the regional newspaper where I am from on my Facebook page. In one of the villages in our municipality a woman h...

Grace talk.

Since 2008 I have been on this awesome journey to actually have the gospel making sense and being revealed to me. Well... where it actually does not make sense at all. Not to my intellectual mind, th...

Boys and girls.

Some weeks ago I felt like I had the revelation of a lifetime, concerning this thing about boys’ and girls’ respective responsibility in a relationship.As is wellknown, we are different. Sometime mor...

Blessed.

Blessed.

My ex roommate Unity from Zimbabwe always answers the question about how she is doing with,-”Me? Oh me, I’m blessed!”This morning at base worship, Stefaan (who is still our base director until Septem...

Impact World Tour.

Impact World Tour.

The last few weeks have been very busy here in Worcester. Busy but good. And our base director, Stefaan, has announced he is leaving - of good cause. He says everything God called him to do in Worces...

You will be satisfied.

Tell your children of it ... and let your children tell their children ...I will restore to you the years that the swarming locust has eaten ...You shall eat in plenty and be satisfied, and praise th...

And the rains they came.

It has been raining this week. Not that I want to talk about weather and wind, but the thing is that it does not rain every day here in our town. But it rains now, it rained in January and it rained...

We are a nation without value.

”We are a nation without value” is what the people of Haiti think of themselves. This morning three ladies from our base shared their experiences after a month working in a clinic and counseling in H...

Missionaries of the third world.

When I was little (11 years of age) I thought I was going to be a missionary in Italy or perhaps France. Or Portugal. Europe. The old Christian countries.The other day there was someone saying that i...