by tschroder100@gmail.com | Feb 17, 2020 | Atheism, Bible, Church, Faith, God, Islam, Jesus, Ministry, Morality, Suffering, The World
The eye of a hurricane is deceptive. All is calm. You think that the worst of the storm is over but it has only just begun. The backside of the storm can be worse than the front. All that was damaged before is subjected to another battering. Whatever was weakened is...
by tschroder100@gmail.com | Feb 6, 2020 | Bible, Faith, God, Jesus, Morality, Suffering
Peter Vardy and Julie Arliss in The Thinker’s Guide to Evil, maintain that “evil is one of the deepest and most central problems of human existence.” They analyze various sources of evil. First, the freedom of human beings to choose to be selfish, self-centered and to...
by tschroder100@gmail.com | Jan 30, 2020 | Aging, Church, Faith, God, Jesus, Ministry, Suffering
On the first page of Paul’s letter to the Colossians we find a surprising statement: ‘I rejoice in sufferings for your sake, and in my flesh I complete what is lacking in Christ’s afflictions for the sake of his body, that is, the church’ (Col.1:24). What can these...
by tschroder100@gmail.com | Jan 23, 2020 | Faith, God, Jesus, Ministry, Prayer, Suffering
What does it mean to pray in Jesus’ name? In Old Testament times, prayer was offered only in the context of sacrifice. God’s people brought an offering when they came into his presence: it cost them something to draw near to God. As they called on his name, they...
by tschroder100@gmail.com | Jan 17, 2020 | God, Inspiration, Jesus, Suffering, The World
In the first chapter of the book of Hebrews, the Spirit of God paints a vivid and majestic picture of the pre-incarnate Christ. He portrays him in all the glories of his eternal and coequal existence with the Father., ‘God of God, Light of Light, very God of very...
by tschroder100@gmail.com | Jan 13, 2020 | Bible, Faith, God, Healing, Jesus, Ministry, Morality, Suffering, The World
If we are to know any comfort in our suffering and find strength to bear it in a truly Christian manner, we must first set ourselves to understand it as well as is humanly possible. We must have a thorough grasp of what the Scriptures teach about evil, for evil is the...
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