by tschroder100@gmail.com | Nov 24, 2025 | Atheism, Bible, Faith, God, Healing, Inspiration, Jesus, Ministry, Prayer, Reading, Suffering, The World, Witness, Worship
When Thanksgiving approaches I receive in the mail a catalogue from the New Braunfels Smokehouse in Texas. We used to enjoy eating in their restaurant and buying goods from their shop when we lived in San Antonio. In fact the owners were members of my congregation. I...
by tschroder100@gmail.com | Nov 1, 2025 | Aging, Atheism, Bible, Church, Faith, God, Healing, Inspiration, Jesus, Ministry, Prayer, Reading, Suffering, The World, Witness, Worship
November 1st has always been celebrated as All Saints’ Day when Christians remember their communion with all the saints, the unity of God’s people in this world and the next. November 2nd is also celebrated as All Souls’ Day when Christians commemorate all the...
by tschroder100@gmail.com | Oct 31, 2025 | Aging, Atheism, Bible, Church, Faith, God, Healing, Inspiration, Jesus, Ministry, Prayer, Reading, Suffering, The World, Witness, Worship
Jonathan Swift in Gulliver’s Travels invented the immortal Stuldbrugs of the flying island of Laputa. Gulliver supposed they would be wise, serene and knowledgeable because of their great age, and instead found them the most miserable of creatures, excruciatingly...
by tschroder100@gmail.com | Oct 24, 2025 | Aging, Atheism, Bible, Church, Faith, God, Healing, Holy Spirit, Inspiration, Jesus, Ministry, Morality, Prayer, Reading, Sexuality, Suffering, Witness, Worship
Two books I have read recently have helped me to discipline my mind so that it does not afflict me with negative and unwanted thinking. It is so easy to lay awake at night or to wake up in the morning and find your thoughts swimming in your head into uncharted waters....
by tschroder100@gmail.com | Sep 28, 2025 | Aging, Bible, Church, Faith, God, Healing, Holy Spirit, Inspiration, Jesus, Ministry, Morality, Prayer, Reading
I want to recommend THIRTY STEPS TO HEAVEN, The Ladder of Divine Ascent for All Walks of Life, by Vassilios Papavassiliou. He takes the great spiritual classic, The Ladder of Divine Ascent by John Climacus and adapts it for the modern world and the contemporary...
by tschroder100@gmail.com | Aug 15, 2025 | Abortion, Aging, Bible, Faith, God, Healing, Jesus, Ministry, Reading, Science, Suffering, The World, Witness
In response to his disciples asking him about the reason for a man blind born blind Jesus replied, “Neither this man nor his parents sinned, but this happened so that the work of God might be displayed in his life.” (John 9:3) Rod Whitacre in his commentary on this...
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