by tschroder100@gmail.com | Jul 9, 2019 | Aging, Faith, God, Healing, Jesus, Prayer, Suffering
Job was a man who was described as blameless and upright; he feared God and shunned evil. Yet a combination of natural disaster and human depravity devastated his life. The Sabeans attacked and carried off his livestock. Lightning burned up his sheep. Chaldeans...
by tschroder100@gmail.com | Jul 2, 2019 | Aging, Faith, God, Healing, Inspiration, Jesus, Prayer, Suffering
Love always hopes (1 Corinthians 13:7) because love sees possibilities where none seems to exist. Love always hopes because love never despairs. Love is not dependent on the fulfillment of immediate expectations. Love takes the long term point of view. Love will not...
by tschroder100@gmail.com | Jun 25, 2019 | Aging, Faith, God, Healing, Inspiration, Jesus, Prayer, Suffering
New York Times writer David Brooks, began his book The Road to Character by contrasting résumé virtues and eulogy virtues. The résumé virtues are the ones you list on your résumé that contribute to external success. The eulogy virtues are deeper. They are the virtues...
by tschroder100@gmail.com | May 24, 2019 | Atheism, Bible, Faith, Healing, Jesus, Ministry, Morality, Prayer, Suffering, The World, Witness
Tim Keller Jesus went about doing good, healing people and ministering to their physical, emotional and spiritual needs. His good works or miracles were signs of the coming of the kingdom of God in their midst. The religious leaders were threatened by his ministry, by...
by tschroder100@gmail.com | May 15, 2019 | Aging, Atheism, Bible, Faith, Healing, Jesus, Ministry, Morality, Prayer, Suffering, The World
I have increasingly become aware of how many parents agonize over the problems their children experience. They are called upon, even in old age, when their children are supposed to be responsible adults living on their own, to help them out of problems of their own...
by tschroder100@gmail.com | Apr 23, 2019 | Atheism, Bible, Faith, Healing, Jesus, Prayer, Witness
Joseph Epstein, in his biography of Alexis de Tocqueville (1805-1859), the famous author of Democracy in America, recounts how Tocqueville, at the age of sixteen underwent an intellectual, even more, a spiritual crisis. Doubt had seeped into his soul through his...
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