by tschroder100@gmail.com | Oct 10, 2026 | Abortion, Aging, Atheism, Bible, Faith, God, Jesus, Morality, Politics, Suffering, The World
For many years, my wife and I sponsored a needy child through the work of World Vision. Four times a year their magazine came in the mail. It was filled with stories of how children throughout the world were being helped by World Vision. But from time to time there...
by tschroder100@gmail.com | Oct 7, 2026 | Aging, Atheism, Faith, God, Healing, Holy Spirit, Jesus, Ministry, The World, Worship
Some people, like Billy Graham, enter into a full-blown faith all at once when they experience a spiritual conversion or personal encounter with Christ. More people, like Billy’s wife, Ruth, experience a slow growth of their faith over a lifetime. The apostle Paul...
by tschroder100@gmail.com | Oct 3, 2026 | Aging, Bible, Church, Faith, God, Holy Spirit, Jesus, Ministry, Prayer
Jon Guttman, in his Editorial for the June, 2002 edition of Military History, wrote about three decisive battles that owed their outcomes to calculated risk-taking. He says that officers today are taught risk assessment – the art of comparing the importance of one’s...
by tschroder100@gmail.com | Sep 30, 2026 | Aging, Atheism, Bible, Church, Faith, God, Healing, Jesus, Ministry, Politics, Suffering, The World
Recently I came across an interview with John Stott, the great English preacher and writer on his life and ministry (80 Years Ago Today: The Conversion of John Stott, www.thegospelcoalition.org). In it he was asked about the state of preaching today. His reply was...
by tschroder100@gmail.com | Aug 29, 2026 | Aging, God, Jesus, Ministry, Morality, Prayer, The World
“Love never fails.” (1 Corinthians 13:8) Divine love stands forever, for God is love, and only God is eternal. Everything that is created is contingent, dependent, temporary, mortal. Therefore only love from God, love that is given by God, love that partakes of the...
by tschroder100@gmail.com | Aug 22, 2026 | Aging, Bible, Faith, God, Inspiration, Jesus, Ministry, Morality, Suffering
“Love knows no limit to its endurance, no end to its trust, no fading of its hope; it can outlast anything. It is, in fact, the one thing that still stands when all else is fallen.” (1 Corinthians 13:7, J.B.Phillips) Paul is indicating “an active, vigorous endurance,...
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