by tschroder100@gmail.com | Feb 20, 2019 | Bible, Church, Inspiration, Jesus, Ministry, Suffering, Witness
In 1970 I was ministering to students and other young adults at All Souls Church, Langham Place, London. It was the era of the Beatles, Eastern transcendental meditation and a psychedelic culture. John Stott gave the Bible Readings at the international missions...
by tschroder100@gmail.com | Feb 16, 2019 | Abortion, Aging, Atheism, Bible, Church, Jesus, Ministry, Morality, Politics, Sexuality, Suffering, The World, Witness
There is a great need in the church today for a biblical, Christian philosophy of history. Most of us are short-sighted and narrow-minded. We are so preoccupied with current affairs in the present century, that neither the past nor the future has any great interest...
by tschroder100@gmail.com | Feb 2, 2019 | Bible, Church, Faith, Healing, Inspiration, Jesus, Ministry, Morality, Prayer, Suffering, The World, Witness, Worship
Job lost his family, his fortune, his reputation, and his health. He works through his grief, through depression, through anger, through arguing with God and his friends who try to explain why he is suffering. Job wants God to answer his complaints. A storm comes...
by tschroder100@gmail.com | Jan 29, 2019 | Bible, Church, Faith, Healing, Ministry, Suffering, Witness
“When Job’s three friends…heard about all the troubles that had come upon him, they set out from their homes and met together by agreement to go and sympathize with him and comfort him. When they saw him from a distance, they could hardly recognize him; they began to...
by tschroder100@gmail.com | Jan 17, 2019 | Bible, Church, Faith, Inspiration, Jesus, Ministry, Prayer, Witness
Before I enter the pulpit to preach I habitually kneel to ask God’s help. I pray that God would drive away all the snares of the enemy, that he would fill me with his Holy Spirit, and that he would open the hearts of the hearers to his truth. I am aware that I am a...
by tschroder100@gmail.com | Jan 13, 2019 | Church, Jesus, Ministry, Prayer, Reading, Suffering, The World, Witness
I have never found it easy to preach to congregations I do not know. I much prefer to be at home in the pulpit with my own congregation, with the people who know me. This section from John Stott explains why I feel that way. “Though you have many countless guides in...
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