by tschroder100@gmail.com | Feb 28, 2017 | Bible, Church, Morality, Prayer, Worship
I AM THE LORD YOUR GOD WHO BROUGHT YOU OUT OF BONDAGE. YOU SHALL HAVE NO OTHER GODS BUT ME. Love and obey God as Creator and Savior. “For there is but one God, the Father, from whom all things came and for whom we live; and there is but one Lord, Jesus Christ, through...
by tschroder100@gmail.com | Jan 26, 2017 | Aging, Church, Faith, Jesus, Ministry, Suffering
Fred Craddock, Dale Goldsmith and Joy Goldsmith, have done us a great favor by writing SPEAKING OF DYING: RECOVERING THE CHURCH’S VOICE IN THE FACE OF DEATH, Brazos Press, 2012. In the light of their experience of several pastors dying while ministering in...
by tschroder100@gmail.com | Jan 19, 2017 | Abortion, Church, Ministry, Morality, Politics, The World, Witness
Yuval Levin, in his latest book, The Fractured Republic, addresses the divisions of our political life. He argues that there is a tendency to become nostalgic for better times. “The Left looks back to the middle of the twentieth century, when unions were strong, large...
by tschroder100@gmail.com | Jan 7, 2017 | Church, Faith, Inspiration, Jesus, Witness, Worship
Why did the early church grow so fast and so far? Tim Keller in his review of two recent books by Larry Hurtado gives three reasons: Christians were called into a unique social project that both offended and attracted people. Christianity offered a direct, personal,...
by tschroder100@gmail.com | Dec 29, 2016 | Bible, Church, Ministry, Prayer, Worship
I am currently enjoying reading Classics for Pleasure by Michael Dirda who received the Pulitzer Prize for his essays and reviews in the Washington Post Book World. In his brief essays on the literature of the world you are introduced to a wide range of authors who...
by tschroder100@gmail.com | Dec 25, 2016 | Church, Jesus
My first twenty-three Christmases were spent in my home in New Zealand where it was the middle of summer. In 1964 I sailed to England to study Theology at the University of Durham. For the first time I was feeling homesick and lonely. My first Christmas away from home...
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