by tschroder100@gmail.com | Dec 5, 2025 | Aging, Atheism, Bible, Church, Faith, God, Holy Spirit, Jesus, Ministry, Morality, Sexuality, Suffering, The World, Witness, Worship
The Advent Prayer; Almighty God, give us grace to cast away the works of darkness and put on the armor of light, now in the time of this mortal life, in which your Son Jesus Christ came to us in great humility; so that, at the last day, when he shall come again in his...
by tschroder100@gmail.com | Dec 5, 2025 | Church, Faith, God, Holy Spirit, Jesus, Ministry, Morality, Prayer, Witness, Worship
In 1978 I became Rector (Pastor) of Grace Church, Orange Park, Florida, a suburb of Jacksonville and moved there with my wife Antoinette and my two daughters, Carrie(4) and Amelia(1). The church members were local and Jacksonville professional and business leaders and...
by tschroder100@gmail.com | Nov 29, 2025 | Aging, Bible, Church, Faith, God, Jesus, Ministry, Prayer, Worship
The four last things that are traditionally subjects of the four Sundays in Advent are Death, Judgment, Heaven and Hell. John Stott dealt with each of these subjects in his writings. The ‘last things’ (death, the Parousia, the resurrection, the last judgement and the...
by tschroder100@gmail.com | Nov 13, 2025 | Aging, Bible, Church, Faith, God, Jesus, Ministry, Reading, Suffering, The World, Witness, Worship
Will Willimon is a retired Methodist bishop, a former Dean of the chapel at Duke University, and is now professor of the practice of Christian ministry at Duke Divinity School. He is the author of many valuable books on the Christian faith. His AGING: Growing Old in...
by tschroder100@gmail.com | Nov 10, 2025 | Aging, Bible, Church, Faith, God, Jesus, Ministry, Suffering, Witness
In his book on aging Will Willimon includes a sermon he preached on the blessedness of being a burden. I’ve got a couple of children; do I want to be a burden to them in my old age? Well, why not? They have been a burden to me. True, I did not give them birth, but I...
by tschroder100@gmail.com | Nov 4, 2025 | Aging, Atheism, Bible, Church, Faith, God, Holy Spirit, Inspiration, Jesus, Ministry, Morality, Politics, Reading, Sexuality, Suffering, The World, Witness
When I was in my twenties and ministering to students in London and on the staff of All Souls Church, Langham Place, next to the headquarters of the BBC, I became aware of the concerns of young people as they struggled with their identities, their purpose, their...
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