by tschroder100@gmail.com | Jan 7, 2026 | Aging, Atheism, Bible, Faith, God, Jesus, Ministry, Morality, Reading
Hedonism is the belief that pleasure is the chief good in life. Hedone is the Greek word for pleasure. Hedonist imagination turns to reality in Ecclesiastes 1:12-2:16. This passage describes the different ways people try to experience pleasure. The writer is seeking...
by tschroder100@gmail.com | Jan 2, 2026 | Atheism, Bible, Faith, God, Holy Spirit, Jesus, Ministry
As I enter into a new year I plan to do a study of the book of Ecclesiastes. Along with the book of Job, Ecclesiastes reminds us that God is bigger, and our life in this world more unpredictable, than we might think. The book invites us to take a realistic tour of...
by tschroder100@gmail.com | Dec 31, 2025 | Prayer, Worship
A Prayer for the Commencement of a New Year. Almighty and immortal God, whose mercies are like your years, unnumbered, we your dependent creatures, humbly adore you for your manifold goodness to us and to all your children. Awaken in our hearts a thankful sense of...
by tschroder100@gmail.com | Dec 30, 2025 | Aging, Atheism, Bible, Church, Faith, God, Healing, Holy Spirit, Inspiration, Jesus, Ministry, Prayer, Reading, Suffering, The World
A primary symptom of depression is sadness. Freud, a sadly depressed man all through his life, admitted, “we are never so defenseless against suffering as when we love, never so helplessly unhappy as when we have lost our loved object or its love.” Our aging...
by tschroder100@gmail.com | Dec 29, 2025 | Bible, God, Inspiration, Jesus, Ministry, Prayer, Reading, The World, Witness
It is always interesting to me to discover where my readers of this blog live. The statistics of locations for the past year are illuminating. At the top of the list in the thousands are from the United States (3,823) and in their hundreds from the United...
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