by tschroder100@gmail.com | Feb 26, 2019 | Bible, Church, Faith, Inspiration, Jesus, Ministry, Reading
The Sunday before Lent used to be called Quinquagesima Sunday, i.e. fifty days before Easter. The epistle to be read on that Sunday was 1 Corinthians 13, Paul’s great hymn of love. The emphasis on the spirit of love is intended to show us the true spirit of Lenten...
by tschroder100@gmail.com | Feb 22, 2019 | Aging, Inspiration, Jesus, Ministry, Suffering, Witness
“In my Father’s house are many rooms; if it were not so, I would have told you. I am going there to prepare a place for you.” (John 14:2) Jesus bids us think of death not as a leap into the dark unknown, but as a journey to a prepared place. It will not be like...
by tschroder100@gmail.com | Feb 20, 2019 | Bible, Church, Inspiration, Jesus, Ministry, Suffering, Witness
In 1970 I was ministering to students and other young adults at All Souls Church, Langham Place, London. It was the era of the Beatles, Eastern transcendental meditation and a psychedelic culture. John Stott gave the Bible Readings at the international missions...
by tschroder100@gmail.com | Feb 12, 2019 | Atheism, Faith, Inspiration, Jesus, Ministry, Morality, Suffering, The World, Witness, Worship
The Judaizers in the New Testament taught that, ‘The only way to be justified is sheer hard work. You have to toil at it. The “work” you have to do is the “works of the law”. That is, you must do everything the [moral] law commands and refrain from everything the law...
by tschroder100@gmail.com | Feb 2, 2019 | Bible, Church, Faith, Healing, Inspiration, Jesus, Ministry, Morality, Prayer, Suffering, The World, Witness, Worship
Job lost his family, his fortune, his reputation, and his health. He works through his grief, through depression, through anger, through arguing with God and his friends who try to explain why he is suffering. Job wants God to answer his complaints. A storm comes...
by tschroder100@gmail.com | Jan 17, 2019 | Bible, Church, Faith, Inspiration, Jesus, Ministry, Prayer, Witness
Before I enter the pulpit to preach I habitually kneel to ask God’s help. I pray that God would drive away all the snares of the enemy, that he would fill me with his Holy Spirit, and that he would open the hearts of the hearers to his truth. I am aware that I am a...
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