by tschroder100@gmail.com | Aug 22, 2018 | Church, Jesus, Ministry, Morality, Sexuality
The release of a grand jury report on the Roman Catholic clergy sexual abuse over many years in Pennsylvania prompts me to post this diagnosis which I shared three years ago. The question to be asked is why bishops, and others in the world-wide Roman Catholic...
by tschroder100@gmail.com | Aug 16, 2018 | Bible, Church, Faith, Jesus, Ministry, Witness
ALL SAINTS ANGLICAN CHURCH, HOKITIKA, NEW ZEALAND In August 1964 I was preparing to leave home to travel to Durham University, England for my theological education. You can imagine that it was a great adventure for a twenty three year old to leave all his friends and...
by tschroder100@gmail.com | Jul 29, 2018 | Aging, Bible, Church, Faith, Jesus, Ministry, Politics, Prayer, Suffering, The World, Witness
Icon of St. George slaying the dragon This is Paul’s peroration in Romans 8: the concluding part of a speech in which there is a summing up and emphatic recapitulation. “What, then, shall we say in response to this?” (Romans 8:31) St. Paul has been arguing that...
by tschroder100@gmail.com | Jul 15, 2018 | Atheism, Bible, Church, Faith, Healing, Inspiration, Jesus, Suffering
“And we know that in all things God works for the good of those who love him, who have been called according to his purpose.” (Romans 8:28 NIV) “And we know that all things work together for good to those who love God.” Or “works together with those who love him to...
by tschroder100@gmail.com | Jul 3, 2018 | Church, Faith, Inspiration, Islam, Jesus, Politics, Suffering, The World
I want to introduce you to one of the most enthralling works of literature that I have ever read. Between 1883 and 1888 Henryk Sienkiewicz wrote his trilogy: WITH FIRE AND SWORD, THE DELUGE, and FIRE IN THE STEPPE, for which he deservedly received the Nobel Prize in...
by tschroder100@gmail.com | Jun 3, 2018 | Aging, Bible, Church, Faith, Jesus, Morality, Sexuality, Suffering
“Those who are led by the Spirit of God are sons of God.” (Romans 8:14) When Paul and his companions were traveling on their missionary journeys they were prevented by the Holy Spirit from preaching the word in the province of Asia. They tried to enter Bithynia, but...
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