by tschroder100@gmail.com | Dec 29, 2018 | Atheism, Bible, Faith, Inspiration, Jesus, Suffering
At one stage in her life, novelist Muriel Spark (1918-2006) wrote, “I resolved to write an autobiography which would help to explain, to myself and others: who am I?” She said it would give her a sense of enriched self-knowledge. Authors of autobiographies are...
by tschroder100@gmail.com | Dec 22, 2018 | Atheism, Bible, Church, Faith, Islam, Jesus, Politics, Prayer, Suffering, Uncategorized, Witness, Worship
On March 7, 1984, Jerry Levin, director of the CNN Middle East Bureau was walking from his Beirut, Lebanon apartment to his office when he was kidnapped by the terrorist group Hezbollah. He was placed in solitary confinement, chained to a radiator that didn’t work,...
by tschroder100@gmail.com | Dec 12, 2018 | Aging, Atheism, Bible, Church, Faith, Inspiration, Jesus, Ministry, Morality, Politics, Prayer, Reading, Science, Sexuality, Suffering, The World
Here are the most significant books I read this past year. They are from a variety of genres: spiritual, devotional, theological, philosophical, biographical, and fictional. You might something in the list that appeals to you. I must say that the Sienkiewicz trilogy...
by tschroder100@gmail.com | Nov 5, 2018 | Atheism, Faith, Politics, Prayer, The World
Irina Ratushinskaya (1954-2017) was a Ukrainian poet who was tried and imprisoned during the 1980’s for anti-Soviet activity. Her crime was to write poetry from a Christian perspective. She was not raised as a Christian, and had no access to Christian literature or a...
by tschroder100@gmail.com | Sep 25, 2018 | Atheism, Bible, Faith, Inspiration, Jesus, Science
H.P. Liddon (1829-1890) Jesus said, “Heaven and earth shall pass away, but my words shall not pass away.” (Matthew 24:35) “My words shall not pass away.” There are loud voices and accomplished writers who say that they shall; that it is only a questions of time, and...
by tschroder100@gmail.com | Sep 15, 2018 | Aging, Atheism, Bible, Faith, Jesus
How we view and experience the character of God determines our own spiritual health. All too often we craft God in our own image – of what we want God to be for us. Or we reject the image of God that has been modeled to us by the culture and the authority figures in...
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