by tschroder100@gmail.com | Jun 28, 2019 | Aging, Faith, God, Inspiration, Jesus, Science, Suffering, Witness
I have recently read the two volume letters and memories of Charles Kingsley (1819-1875) published in 1890. Kingsley was an Anglican clergyman who wrote the popular novels Westward Ho, and Water Babies, was an accomplished naturalist, a professor of Modern History at...
by tschroder100@gmail.com | Jun 25, 2019 | Aging, Faith, God, Healing, Inspiration, Jesus, Prayer, Suffering
New York Times writer David Brooks, began his book The Road to Character by contrasting résumé virtues and eulogy virtues. The résumé virtues are the ones you list on your résumé that contribute to external success. The eulogy virtues are deeper. They are the virtues...
by tschroder100@gmail.com | Jun 6, 2019 | Church, Faith, Inspiration, Jesus, Ministry, Politics, Prayer, Witness
At his Ascension Jesus promised the disciples that “you will receive power when the Holy Spirit has come upon you, and you will be my witnesses… to the end of the earth (Acts 1:8). When the day of Pentecost arrived a mighty rushing wind and tongues of fire rested on...
by tschroder100@gmail.com | May 30, 2019 | Aging, Bible, Church, Faith, Inspiration, Jesus, Ministry
The Ascension: Rembrandt The Ascension of Jesus is celebrated on the 40th day after Easter Sunday (Acts 1:4). Because it is always a Thursday it tends to be overlooked and neglected. Yet the Ascension of Jesus is the culmination of his earthly life. It confirms his...
by tschroder100@gmail.com | Apr 20, 2019 | Aging, Atheism, Bible, Church, Faith, Inspiration, Jesus, 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 | Apr 18, 2019 | Abortion, Atheism, Bible, Church, Faith, Inspiration, Jesus, Ministry, Morality, Politics, Reading, Sexuality, Suffering, The World, Witness
While recovering from knee replacement surgery I have passed the time reading a wide variety of books. Over the years I have collected eighteen volumes of Prince Valiant by Hal Foster published by Fantagraphic Books. The Prince Valiant comics ran from 1937 and I hope...
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