by tschroder100@gmail.com | May 28, 2025 | Atheism, Bible, Church, Faith, God, Healing, Holy Spirit, Inspiration, Jesus, Ministry, Morality, Prayer, Suffering, The World, Witness, Worship
Forty days after the resurrection Jesus disappeared! St. Luke wrote that “while he was blessing them, he left them and was taken up into heaven.” (Luke 24:51) He vanished from before their very eyes. “A cloud hid him from their sight.” (Acts 1:9) What happened to him...
by tschroder100@gmail.com | May 23, 2025 | Atheism, Bible, Church, Faith, God, Jesus, Ministry, Politics, Suffering, The World
I will never forget my first Memorial Day weekend in the USA. That Sunday morning in 1971 after I led the prayers at Christ Church, in Hamilton-Wenham, Massachusetts, I was greeting the worshippers at the door when a lady said to me, “You didn’t mention Memorial Day...
by tschroder100@gmail.com | May 4, 2025 | Aging, Bible, Church, Faith, God, Holy Spirit, Inspiration, Jesus, Ministry, Morality, Prayer, Reading, Sexuality, Suffering, The World, Witness, Worship
My good friend and highly esteemed pastor, Harald ‘Whitey’ Haugan has entered into glory after 93 years of a most productive and memorable life on earth. I have known Whitey since 1976 when I moved to Jacksonville, Florida. His wife, Mary, was the realtor...
by tschroder100@gmail.com | Apr 25, 2025 | Bible, Church, Faith, God, Jesus
“Joseph of Arimathea, a prominent member of the Council, who was himself waiting for the kingdom of God, went boldly to Pilate and asked for Jesus’ body. Joseph bought some linen cloth, took down the body, wrapped it in the linen, and placed it in a tomb cut out of...
by tschroder100@gmail.com | Apr 9, 2025 | Aging, Atheism, Bible, Church, Faith, God, Holy Spirit, Inspiration, Jesus, Ministry, Morality, Reading
As I look back on my life I must have been a very idealistic adolescent. While I devoured the usual boy’s comic books such as Eagle, Rover, Classics Illustrated and many others, I also haunted the local public library housed in a Carnegie building and read...
by tschroder100@gmail.com | Apr 5, 2025 | Aging, Church, God
As I approach my 84th birthday I find myself thinking about my past. Recently, when visiting a friend who is older than I he shared his research into his family history. Perhaps it is the characteristic of old age that we look back over the years and are curious about...
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