by tschroder100@gmail.com | Nov 9, 2024 | Abortion, Aging, Atheism, Bible, God, Holy Spirit, Inspiration, Jesus, Morality, Reading, Science, Worship
When I first held my newest grand-daughter, Erika, in my arms and looked at her, I asked, “Who are you? Where have you come from? What will your life be like?” Her perfectly formed face, eyes, nose, ears, fingers and toes fascinated me, as did my two daughters’ when...
by tschroder100@gmail.com | Oct 30, 2024 | Abortion, Aging, Atheism, Bible, Church, Faith, God, Healing, Holy Spirit, Inspiration, Jesus, Ministry, Morality, Politics, Prayer, Science, Sexuality, Suffering, The World, Worship
Leaving church the other day a lady asked me a question about nondenominational churches: what they believe, do their pastors have a theological education etc.? I first of all responded by distinguishing between nondenominational churches and interdenominational...
by tschroder100@gmail.com | Oct 19, 2024 | Aging, Atheism, Bible, Faith, God, Jesus, Ministry, Movies, Politics, Science, Sexuality, Suffering, Witness
In the winter term 1971 I participated in a mission to Durham University where I had studied from 1964-67. It consisted of lectures by the well-known evangelist David Watson who was pastor of a church in York and the author of eight popular books on the Christian...
by tschroder100@gmail.com | Oct 11, 2024 | Atheism, Bible, Church, Faith, God, Jesus, Ministry, Morality, Movies, Politics, Reading, Science, Sexuality, Suffering, The World, Worship
We visited the Columbia (SC) Museum of Art to view 45 paintings of the Hudson River School of Painters on loan from the New York Historical Society. Antoinette and I also viewed them at an exhibition in the National Gallery in London. The magnificent landscapes of...
by tschroder100@gmail.com | Sep 26, 2024 | Atheism, Bible, Faith, God, Healing, Inspiration, Jesus, Ministry, Prayer, Suffering
On Tuesday, December 6, 2011, Antoinette and I walked past St. James’s Church, Spanish Place, next to our hotel in the West End of London, and noticed that there would be a performance of Handel’s Messiah that evening, by the choir of the Cardinal Vaughan Memorial...
by tschroder100@gmail.com | Sep 20, 2024 | Atheism, God, Healing, Inspiration, Jesus, Ministry, Morality, Prayer, Suffering
Handel uses four psalms in the Messiah. Psalm 22:7,8 is used to describe the religious leaders’ ridicule of Jesus during his agony on the Cross as quoted in the Gospels. “All they that see him laugh him to scorn: they shoot out their lips, and shake their heads,...
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