by tschroder100@gmail.com | Dec 5, 2019 | Church, Faith, God, Jesus, Prayer, Uncategorized
The Book of Common Prayer, in which I was raised and guided my worship every Sunday, begins the Christian Year with the First Sunday in Advent. The prayer (Collect) for that day to be repeated every day until Christmas Eve is the following: Almighty God, give us grace...
by tschroder100@gmail.com | Nov 20, 2019 | Bible, Church, Faith, God, Morality, Prayer, The World
What is common to the biblical concepts of the holiness and the wrath of God is the truth that they cannot coexist with sin. God’s holiness exposes sin; his wrath opposes it. So sin cannot approach God, and God cannot tolerate sin. Several vivid metaphors are used in...
by tschroder100@gmail.com | Nov 11, 2019 | Atheism, Bible, Church, Faith, God, Jesus, Ministry, Witness
Study of 1 John 4:1-21 4 Dear friends, do not believe every spirit, but test the spirits to see whether they are from God, because many false prophets have gone out into the world. 2 This is how you can recognize the Spirit of God: Every spirit that acknowledges that...
by tschroder100@gmail.com | Nov 3, 2019 | Faith, God, Inspiration, Suffering, The World, Witness
Henry T. Waskow was raised in the cotton country south of Temple, Texas, one of eight children in a family of German Baptists strapped enough to sew their clothes from flour sacking. Waskow was fair, blue-eyed, short and sober. A teenage lay minister, Waskow took...
by tschroder100@gmail.com | Oct 23, 2019 | Atheism, Bible, Faith, God, Jesus, Morality, Suffering
A Study of 1 John 3:11-24 11 For this is the message you heard from the beginning: We should love one another. 12 Do not be like Cain, who belonged to the evil one and murdered his brother. And why did he murder him? Because his own actions were evil and his brother’s...
by tschroder100@gmail.com | Oct 14, 2019 | Atheism, Bible, Church, Faith, God, Jesus, Ministry, Morality, The World, Witness
A study of 1 John 2:28-3:10 28 And now, dear children, continue in him, so that when he appears we may be confident and unashamed before him at his coming. 29 If you know that he is righteous, you know that everyone who does what is right has been born of him....
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