by tschroder100@gmail.com | Apr 17, 2019 | Church, Faith, Inspiration, Jesus, Ministry, Prayer, Suffering, Worship
How marvelous, how wonderful! And my song shall ever be: How marvelous, how wonderful is my Savior’s love for me. I stand amazed in the presence of Jesus the Nazarene, and wonder how he could love me, a sinner, condemned, unclean. For me it was in the garden he...
by tschroder100@gmail.com | Apr 16, 2019 | Faith, Inspiration, Jesus, Ministry, Prayer, Suffering, Worship
Desiring to gain the great spiritual truths of Holy Week I turned to the section in my Worship and Rejoice hymnal for inspiration. While we do not sing these hymns often they contain a goldmine of prayerful resources. Here are some of them. Go to dark Gethsemane, you...
by tschroder100@gmail.com | Mar 11, 2019 | Bible, Church, Inspiration, Jesus, Ministry, Prayer, Witness, Worship
In April 1999 I took my staff team to a church growth conference put on by Walt Kallestad and his leadership at Community Church of Joy, Glendale, Arizona. It was a very productive conference on creating a vision for growth and putting it into action. In a Leadership...
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...
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