by tschroder100@gmail.com | Apr 18, 2026 | Abortion, Atheism, Bible, Church, Faith, God, Healing, Holy Spirit, Inspiration, Islam, Jesus, Morality, Politics, Prayer, Reading
Daniel Jupp is a British author and political commentator with a Ph.D. from the University of Exeter. I admire his candor and his unflinching analysis of recent events in the UK and the world. In a recent column in his blog Jupplandia he explains his lack of Christian...
by tschroder100@gmail.com | Apr 8, 2026 | Atheism, Bible, Faith, God, Holy Spirit, Inspiration, Jesus, Prayer, Reading, Science
The book of Ecclesiastes in the Bible expresses the skepticism of a life that has seen most things, and finds it hard to make sense of it all. The more we know about life, the more cynical we can become. We may have more, rather than less, unanswered questions as we...
by tschroder100@gmail.com | Apr 4, 2026 | Abortion, Aging, Atheism, Bible, Church, Faith, God, Holy Spirit, Inspiration, Jesus, Ministry, Prayer, Witness
When I was eleven years old my grandmother died suddenly at the age of fifty nine. Her death was shock to me. I could not understand how a person so vibrant and alive one moment could be gone the next. I can remember seeing her laid out in her coffin in her bedroom...
by tschroder100@gmail.com | Jan 2, 2026 | Atheism, Bible, Faith, God, Holy Spirit, Jesus, Ministry
As I enter into a new year I plan to do a study of the book of Ecclesiastes. Along with the book of Job, Ecclesiastes reminds us that God is bigger, and our life in this world more unpredictable, than we might think. The book invites us to take a realistic tour of...
by tschroder100@gmail.com | Dec 30, 2025 | Aging, Atheism, Bible, Church, Faith, God, Healing, Holy Spirit, Inspiration, Jesus, Ministry, Prayer, Reading, Suffering, The World
A primary symptom of depression is sadness. Freud, a sadly depressed man all through his life, admitted, “we are never so defenseless against suffering as when we love, never so helplessly unhappy as when we have lost our loved object or its love.” Our aging...
by tschroder100@gmail.com | Dec 19, 2025 | Abortion, Aging, Atheism, Bible, Church, Faith, God, Holy Spirit, Jesus, Ministry, Morality, Reading, Suffering, The World, Witness
I have been writing about The Four Last Things, the traditional subjects of the four Sundays in Advent – Death, Judgment, Heaven and Hell. The fourth of the four last things is the doctrine of Hell. This is a subject that is rarely heard of in the pulpit these days....
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