by tschroder100@gmail.com | Aug 20, 2015 | Ministry
What are church leaders reading these days? From the blogs that I receive they are reading a very selective range of books. One post recommended 16 books every church leader should read on their next sabbatical. It listed books on leadership, team building, vision...
by tschroder100@gmail.com | Aug 4, 2015 | Politics, The World, Witness
“Nowhere in the New Testament do we find any expectation that in the course of the centuries mankind will become Christian, so that the opposition between the world and the Church would be overcome in historical time. But the contrary is true: the Christian community...
by tschroder100@gmail.com | Jul 30, 2015 | Inspiration, Morality
A recent letter to the local newspaper makes a case for accepting human behavior on the basis that we are all born with our inclinations, and are therefore not morally responsible for them. If God made us this way then we should accept ourselves as we are and others...
by tschroder100@gmail.com | Jul 25, 2015 | Jesus
How do you imagine Jesus? Each of us has our own perception. In St. Faith’s Anglican Church, Rotorua, New Zealand, there is an etching of Jesus seen as a Maori chief in a window that gives the impression that he is walking on the waters of the lake. It is not...
by tschroder100@gmail.com | Jul 20, 2015 | Atheism, Faith, Jesus
Unbelief is that state of mind which refuses to learn; it means the closed mind. To him “who has ears to hear,” Christ says, “I am the Christ.” To refuse to listen means that we are obstinate; it is sinful disobedience. But it is only to the believing soul that Christ...
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