by tschroder100@gmail.com | Apr 23, 2015 | Faith, Politics, Suffering
Reading Leo Tolstoy’s classic, War and Peace is like feasting at a fifty course banquet. There is so much more in the novel than could ever be captured in the movie version. Apart from the innumerable characters, and the historical events it covers, War and Peace, is...
by tschroder100@gmail.com | Apr 18, 2015 | Atheism, Faith, The World
Peter Hitchens is a British journalist, author and broadcaster. A former revolutionary (Trotskyite), he attributes his return to faith largely to his experience of socialism in practice, which he witnessed during his many years reporting in Eastern Europe and his...
by tschroder100@gmail.com | Apr 14, 2015 | Faith, Healing, Suffering
I came across a wonderful quote in Dallas Willard’s admirable book, Renovation of the Heart (p.228). “A depressed and hopeless man came to John Wesley to inquire what message he gave to the multitudes of hearers he regularly addressed, morning and evening. Wesley...
by tschroder100@gmail.com | Apr 11, 2015 | Faith, Inspiration, Suffering
Jim Wood, of Wears Valley Ranch in Tennessee and a former student of mine from Gordon College days, spoke at our monthly Chapel men’s breakfast from Colossians 3:13. It struck me that his message was extremely relevant to a couple of friends who have been...
by tschroder100@gmail.com | Apr 2, 2015 | Faith, Jesus, The World
What are the objections to the Christian assurance of the resurrection? C.S. Lewis, in The Silver Chair tells the story of Eustace and Jill who set out in Narnia to find Prince Rilian who has been kidnapped and enchanted by the Lady of the Green Kirtle to forget who...
by tschroder100@gmail.com | Mar 31, 2015 | Faith, Jesus, Ministry, Suffering
“Jesus knew that the time had come for him to leave this world and go to the Father….Jesus knew that the Father had put all things under his power, and that he had come from God and was returning to God.” Jesus must have shared his self-consciousness with John and...
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