by tschroder100@gmail.com | Jul 6, 2025 | Abortion, Atheism, Bible, Church, Faith, God, Holy Spirit, Islam, Jesus, Ministry, Morality, Movies, Politics, Prayer, Reading, Science, Sexuality, Suffering, The World, Witness, Worship
Sohrab Ahmari has had a fascinating life. Born and raised in Iran, where his parents were part of the secular professional class, he rejected the Islamic faith of the mullahs with its censorious condemnation of daily life. He found its teaching and practice full of...
by tschroder100@gmail.com | Jul 3, 2025 | Abortion, Bible, Faith, God, Inspiration, Islam, Jesus, Ministry, Morality, Politics, Reading, Worship
In an interview David McCullough lamented the lack of sense of our history today after a student from a prestigious college remarked that she did not realize that all the original thirteen colonies were on the east coast! One summer my wife and I drove to Maryland to...
by tschroder100@gmail.com | Jun 18, 2025 | Bible, Church, Faith, God, Islam, Jesus, Ministry, Morality, Politics, The World
Recently a pastor friend of mine wrote to me about people in his congregation who were interpreting Revelation 20 in terms of the Israel-Iran war. Years ago I wrote about this issue when a similar situation arose in geopolitics. I visited Israel in 1965 when the West...
by tschroder100@gmail.com | Jun 12, 2025 | God, Holy Spirit, Islam, Jesus, Ministry, Morality, Worship
The Sunday after Pentecost is celebrated in the Christian Year as Trinity Sunday. It is usually the most challenging topic for preachers. The nature of God is beyond human imagining because of our finitude. Other religions find the doctrine of God as Holy Trinity as...
by tschroder100@gmail.com | Mar 22, 2025 | Bible, Church, Faith, God, Inspiration, Islam, Jesus, Ministry, Morality, Reading, Suffering, The World, Witness, Worship
The message of the cross is foolishness to those who are perishing, but to us who are being saved, it is the power of God…..we preach Christ crucified, a stumbling block and foolishness to non-Christians…For I resolved to know nothing while I was with you except Jesus...
by tschroder100@gmail.com | Mar 4, 2025 | Islam, Morality, Politics, Reading, Science, Sexuality, Suffering, The World
I have recently discovered Roger Scruton’s reflections on the fallacies of modern culture that affect the thinking of those who want to bring about idealistic solutions to all the problems and challenges of humanity. It is entitled, THE USES OF PESSIMISM: AND THE...
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