by tschroder100@gmail.com | Jan 15, 2017 | Jesus, Morality, Politics, Prayer, The World
Heavenly Father, as we prepare for the inauguration of a new President we pray for a peaceful and fruitful transition to the next Administration. We commend to your keeping Donald Trump, Michael Pence, and all the nominees for Cabinet, White House, and senior...
by tschroder100@gmail.com | Jan 12, 2017 | Politics, The World
Over the holidays I read two books by Yuval Levin who diagnoses and describes the thinking and convictions behind the current political divisions in the United States. The first was The Great Debate: Edmund Burke, Thomas Paine and the Birth of Right and Left, which...
by tschroder100@gmail.com | Jan 7, 2017 | Church, Faith, Inspiration, Jesus, Witness, Worship
Why did the early church grow so fast and so far? Tim Keller in his review of two recent books by Larry Hurtado gives three reasons: Christians were called into a unique social project that both offended and attracted people. Christianity offered a direct, personal,...
by tschroder100@gmail.com | Dec 29, 2016 | Bible, Church, Ministry, Prayer, Worship
I am currently enjoying reading Classics for Pleasure by Michael Dirda who received the Pulitzer Prize for his essays and reviews in the Washington Post Book World. In his brief essays on the literature of the world you are introduced to a wide range of authors who...
by tschroder100@gmail.com | Dec 25, 2016 | Church, Jesus
My first twenty-three Christmases were spent in my home in New Zealand where it was the middle of summer. In 1964 I sailed to England to study Theology at the University of Durham. For the first time I was feeling homesick and lonely. My first Christmas away from home...
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