by tschroder100@gmail.com | Jan 24, 2025 | Aging, God, Healing, Holy Spirit, Jesus, Ministry, Morality, Politics, Prayer, Suffering, Witness, Worship
One of the hardest commandments of Jesus is to love your enemies. Jesus said, “Love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you, so that you may be sons of your Father who is in heaven” (Matthew 5:44-45). Johann Arndt in his magisterial book, True Christianity...
by tschroder100@gmail.com | Jan 18, 2025 | Aging, Faith, God, Healing, Jesus, Ministry, Movies, Prayer, Suffering, Worship
I am aware of many friends and family members who are going through hard times. They are either in hospital, undergoing treatment, or struggling with various maladies of aging. Their bodies are not what they used to be and they suffer new ailments they never thought...
by tschroder100@gmail.com | Oct 30, 2024 | Abortion, Aging, Atheism, Bible, Church, Faith, God, Healing, Holy Spirit, Inspiration, Jesus, Ministry, Morality, Politics, Prayer, Science, Sexuality, Suffering, The World, Worship
Leaving church the other day a lady asked me a question about nondenominational churches: what they believe, do their pastors have a theological education etc.? I first of all responded by distinguishing between nondenominational churches and interdenominational...
by tschroder100@gmail.com | Oct 17, 2024 | Aging, Bible, Church, Faith, God, Healing, Holy Spirit, Inspiration, Jesus, Ministry, Reading, Suffering, The World
“And we know that in all things God works for the good of those who love him, who have been called according to his purpose.” (Romans 8:28 NIV) “And we know that all things work together for good to those who love God.” Or “works together with those who love him to...
by tschroder100@gmail.com | Sep 26, 2024 | Atheism, Bible, Faith, God, Healing, Inspiration, Jesus, Ministry, Prayer, Suffering
On Tuesday, December 6, 2011, Antoinette and I walked past St. James’s Church, Spanish Place, next to our hotel in the West End of London, and noticed that there would be a performance of Handel’s Messiah that evening, by the choir of the Cardinal Vaughan Memorial...
by tschroder100@gmail.com | Sep 20, 2024 | Atheism, God, Healing, Inspiration, Jesus, Ministry, Morality, Prayer, Suffering
Handel uses four psalms in the Messiah. Psalm 22:7,8 is used to describe the religious leaders’ ridicule of Jesus during his agony on the Cross as quoted in the Gospels. “All they that see him laugh him to scorn: they shoot out their lips, and shake their heads,...
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