by tschroder100@gmail.com | Apr 4, 2026 | Abortion, Aging, Atheism, Bible, Church, Faith, God, Holy Spirit, Inspiration, Jesus, Ministry, Prayer, Witness
When I was eleven years old my grandmother died suddenly at the age of fifty nine. Her death was shock to me. I could not understand how a person so vibrant and alive one moment could be gone the next. I can remember seeing her laid out in her coffin in her bedroom...
by tschroder100@gmail.com | Mar 20, 2026 | Aging, Bible, Church, Faith, God, Healing, Jesus, Ministry, Prayer, Suffering, Witness
“Remember your Creator in the days of your youth, before the days of trouble come and the years approach when you will say, ‘I find no pleasure in them’- before the sun and the light and the moon and the stars grow dark, and the clouds return after the rain; when the...
by tschroder100@gmail.com | Mar 14, 2026 | Abortion, Aging, Atheism, Bible, Church, Faith, God, Jesus, Ministry, Morality, Movies, Politics, Reading, Science, Sexuality, Suffering, The World, Witness, Worship
In reading about the work of Emil Brunner (1899-1966) when he was faced with the rise of Communism, Fascism and Hitler I am impressed by how he understood the role of Christian preaching, teaching and writing. He wrote that the church could not ignore the fact that it...
by tschroder100@gmail.com | Mar 7, 2026 | Aging, Atheism, Bible, Faith, God, Jesus, Ministry, Reading, Science, Suffering, The World
“This is the evil in everything that happens under the sun: The same destiny overtakes all. The hearts of men, moreover, are full of evil and there is madness in their hearts while they live, and afterward they join the dead…. The race is not to the swift or the...
by tschroder100@gmail.com | Mar 5, 2026 | Aging, Bible, Faith, God, Reading, Suffering, The World
On the evening of September 5, 2004, my wife and I were watching the progress of Hurricane Frances on the television in our home when the power failed. Left in the darkness we listened to the wind roaring over us, the trees thudding against the roof, and the crack of...
by tschroder100@gmail.com | Feb 27, 2026 | Aging, Bible, Faith, God, Healing, Inspiration, Jesus, Ministry, Science, Suffering, The World
“I consider that our present sufferings are not worth comparing with the glory that will be revealed in us. The creation waits in eager expectation for the sons of God to be revealed.” (Romans 8:18,19) “This paragraph, from verse 18 to verse 25, is the classic...
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