by tschroder100@gmail.com | Sep 24, 2022 | Atheism, Bible, Church, Faith, God, Holy Spirit, Inspiration, Jesus, Ministry, Morality, Politics, Reading, Science, Sexuality, Suffering, The World, Witness, Worship
Enlightenment thinkers in the eighteenth century understood the world through the lens of experimental science. Believing that all phenomena operated according to universal natural laws, they judged every intellectual proposition according to the test of reason. Their...
by tschroder100@gmail.com | Sep 21, 2022 | Atheism, Bible, Church, Faith, God, Jesus, Ministry, Morality, Science, Suffering, The World, Witness
In answer to those who questioned his credentials, and the source of his teaching, Jesus claimed that it came from God who sent him. But how do we know that this is the truth? Jesus said, “If anyone chooses to do God’s will, he will find out whether my teaching comes...
by tschroder100@gmail.com | Sep 14, 2022 | Aging, Bible, Church, Faith, God, Jesus, Ministry, Politics, Witness, Worship
“Blessed are those who mourn, for they will be comforted.” (Matthew 5:4) The National Days of Mourning in the United Kingdom for the death of Queen Elizabeth II as covered on television are a salutary reminder of the need for a solemn period of grieving on the death...
by tschroder100@gmail.com | Sep 4, 2022 | Bible, Church, Faith, God, Inspiration, 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 | Aug 30, 2022 | Atheism, Bible, Faith, God, Jesus, Ministry, Prayer, Science, Witness
In 1986, my wife Antoinette and I were in a shopping mall in Christchurch, New Zealand, when we noticed people looking at the televisions in the stores. My cousin, whom we were meeting for lunch, arrived, and said, “Have you heard about the space shuttle?” We hadn’t...
by tschroder100@gmail.com | Aug 6, 2022 | Aging, Atheism, Bible, Church, Faith, God, Jesus, Ministry, Politics, Witness
For the last twenty years Ed Weihenmayer wrote a Lenten Meditation for the Chapel. In them he shared his beliefs about life and faith. Let me share some of his convictions.In 2001 he wrote about being raised in a household in which he was taught to use all the talents...
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