by tschroder100@gmail.com | Apr 20, 2025 | Aging, Faith, God, Holy Spirit, Jesus, Suffering, Witness, Worship
On September 7, 1952 my beloved grandmother died aged 59. It was totally unexpected. She had a heart attack and in those days there was little the local physician could do to deal with her blood clot. They gave her brandy to ease her discomfort. Having had two heart...
by tschroder100@gmail.com | Apr 17, 2025 | God, Holy Spirit, Inspiration, Jesus, Ministry, Witness, Worship
“Jesus knew that the time has come for him to leave this world and go to the Father.” (John 13:1) What a way to describe your last night? When we die we leave this world and go to the Father. It is a journey from here to the presence of the Father. It is to leave the...
by tschroder100@gmail.com | Apr 9, 2025 | Aging, Atheism, Bible, Church, Faith, God, Holy Spirit, Inspiration, Jesus, Ministry, Morality, Reading
As I look back on my life I must have been a very idealistic adolescent. While I devoured the usual boy’s comic books such as Eagle, Rover, Classics Illustrated and many others, I also haunted the local public library housed in a Carnegie building and read...
by tschroder100@gmail.com | Mar 30, 2025 | Aging, Atheism, Faith, God, Jesus, Morality, Reading
I don’t like surprises. I like to know what is going to happen in my life so that I can adequately prepare for it. Whenever something unexpected happens I get undone by it. When somebody springs something unexpected on me, presents me with an issue or agenda item that...
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 19, 2025 | Aging, Faith, God, Holy Spirit, Inspiration, Jesus, Ministry, Prayer, Suffering, Witness
William Willimon, Methodist Bishop and former Dean of the Chapel at Duke University, commented about the message of the Passion Gospel: “In a feel-good, sin-denying, death-avoiding world, this story of evil, of sin, of goodness challenged, of divine love, goes against...
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