by tschroder100@gmail.com | Jan 10, 2020 | Faith, God, Healing, Inspiration, Suffering
Margaret Clarkson (1915-2008), prolific hymn writer, teacher and author was born with chronic headaches and juvenile arthritis which caused her much pain. A second arthritic attack when she was twelve settled in one arm, leaving her wrist and hand swollen and partly...
by tschroder100@gmail.com | Jan 6, 2020 | Inspiration, Jesus, Worship
Whenever I looked out of my bedroom window in my childhood home I could see him. He was the silent sentinel, an ever-present reminder of the past. Exquisitely carved out of white marble, the Pioneer Memorial was a gold prospector, with a slouch hat on his head, his...
by tschroder100@gmail.com | Dec 13, 2019 | Atheism, Faith, God, Inspiration, Jesus, Ministry, Morality, Prayer, Suffering, The World
There has been much discussion recently on the growth of religious unbelief among young people. I have been asked what it would take for young people to become Christians. Here are some of my answers. A sense of guilt. The “requirements of the law are written on their...
by tschroder100@gmail.com | Dec 10, 2019 | Inspiration, Politics, Reading, The World
As I review my reading over the past year I am aware of its variety and eclectic nature. Some books are old and some quite contemporary. Lots of history and biography. My central preoccupation has been with the works of my mentor John Stott. I have ploughed through...
by tschroder100@gmail.com | Nov 3, 2019 | Faith, God, Inspiration, Suffering, The World, Witness
Henry T. Waskow was raised in the cotton country south of Temple, Texas, one of eight children in a family of German Baptists strapped enough to sew their clothes from flour sacking. Waskow was fair, blue-eyed, short and sober. A teenage lay minister, Waskow took...
by tschroder100@gmail.com | Aug 31, 2019 | Bible, Faith, God, Inspiration, Jesus, Suffering, The World
In nearly thirty years of living in Florida I have experienced many hurricanes. As Hurricane Dorian threatens us I reflect on what I have written about them in the past. On the evening of September 5, 2004, my wife and I were watching the progress of Hurricane Frances...
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