by tschroder100@gmail.com | Oct 17, 2026 | Atheism, Faith, God, Holy Spirit, Jesus, Ministry, Morality, Reading, Science
Enlightenment thinkers in the eighteenth century understood the world through the lens of experimental science. Believing that all phenomena operated according to universal natural laws, they judged every intellectual proposition according to the test of reason. Their...
by tschroder100@gmail.com | Oct 7, 2026 | Aging, Atheism, Faith, God, Healing, Holy Spirit, Jesus, Ministry, The World, Worship
Some people, like Billy Graham, enter into a full-blown faith all at once when they experience a spiritual conversion or personal encounter with Christ. More people, like Billy’s wife, Ruth, experience a slow growth of their faith over a lifetime. The apostle Paul...
by tschroder100@gmail.com | Oct 3, 2026 | Aging, Bible, Church, Faith, God, Holy Spirit, Jesus, Ministry, Prayer
Jon Guttman, in his Editorial for the June, 2002 edition of Military History, wrote about three decisive battles that owed their outcomes to calculated risk-taking. He says that officers today are taught risk assessment – the art of comparing the importance of one’s...
by tschroder100@gmail.com | Sep 26, 2026 | Atheism, Bible, Church, Faith, God, Holy Spirit, Jesus, Ministry, Prayer
In 1986, my wife Antoinette and I were in a shopping mall in Christchurch, New Zealand, when we noticed people looking at the televisions in the stores. My cousin, whom we were meeting for lunch, arrived, and said, “Have you heard about the space shuttle?” We hadn’t...
by tschroder100@gmail.com | Sep 15, 2026 | Atheism, Bible, Faith, God, Holy Spirit, Jesus, Science
C.S. Lewis tells the story of a military man who, though he confessed to being religious, had no time for doctrines such as found in the creeds. He preferred his religion to be mysterious and experiential, and did not want to know about the facts of the faith. His...
by tschroder100@gmail.com | Sep 2, 2026 | God, Holy Spirit, Jesus, Ministry, Morality, Politics, Suffering, The World
“Give everyone what you owe him: If you owe taxes, pay taxes; if revenue, then revenue; if respect, then respect; if honor, then honor. Let no debt remain outstanding, except the continuing debt to love one another.” (Romans 13:7-8) Kierkegaard paraphrases St. Paul:...
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