by tschroder100@gmail.com | May 15, 2019 | Aging, Atheism, Bible, Faith, Healing, Jesus, Ministry, Morality, Prayer, Suffering, The World
I have increasingly become aware of how many parents agonize over the problems their children experience. They are called upon, even in old age, when their children are supposed to be responsible adults living on their own, to help them out of problems of their own...
by tschroder100@gmail.com | Apr 23, 2019 | Atheism, Bible, Faith, Healing, Jesus, Prayer, Witness
Joseph Epstein, in his biography of Alexis de Tocqueville (1805-1859), the famous author of Democracy in America, recounts how Tocqueville, at the age of sixteen underwent an intellectual, even more, a spiritual crisis. Doubt had seeped into his soul through his...
by tschroder100@gmail.com | Apr 20, 2019 | Aging, Atheism, Bible, Church, Faith, Inspiration, Jesus, 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 | Apr 18, 2019 | Abortion, Atheism, Bible, Church, Faith, Inspiration, Jesus, Ministry, Morality, Politics, Reading, Sexuality, Suffering, The World, Witness
While recovering from knee replacement surgery I have passed the time reading a wide variety of books. Over the years I have collected eighteen volumes of Prince Valiant by Hal Foster published by Fantagraphic Books. The Prince Valiant comics ran from 1937 and I hope...
by tschroder100@gmail.com | Apr 8, 2019 | Atheism, Islam, Jesus, Suffering
“For the message of the cross is foolishness to those who are perishing, but to us who are being saved it is the power of God.” (1 Cor 1:18) What is the message of the cross? Why is it foolishness to those who are perishing? Why is it the power of God to those who are...
by tschroder100@gmail.com | Mar 30, 2019 | Atheism, Bible, Faith, Jesus, Witness
I don’t like surprises. I like to know what is going to happen in my life so that I can adequately prepare for it. Whenever something unexpected happens I get undone by it. When somebody springs something unexpected on me, presents me with an issue or agenda item that...
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