by tschroder100@gmail.com | Oct 21, 2026 | Atheism, Faith, God, Jesus, Ministry, Science, The World, Witness
What causes people to follow Christ, or to believe in other religions? Is it on the basis of evidence we have come to believe as compelling? What causes us to continue to believe when there is contrary evidence? What would we have done if Jesus had come to us and...
by tschroder100@gmail.com | Oct 17, 2026 | Atheism, Faith, God, Holy Spirit, Jesus, Ministry, Morality, Reading, Science
Enlightenment thinkers in the eighteenth century understood the world through the lens of experimental science. Believing that all phenomena operated according to universal natural laws, they judged every intellectual proposition according to the test of reason. Their...
by tschroder100@gmail.com | Oct 7, 2026 | Aging, Atheism, Faith, God, Healing, Holy Spirit, Jesus, Ministry, The World, Worship
Some people, like Billy Graham, enter into a full-blown faith all at once when they experience a spiritual conversion or personal encounter with Christ. More people, like Billy’s wife, Ruth, experience a slow growth of their faith over a lifetime. The apostle Paul...
by tschroder100@gmail.com | Oct 3, 2026 | Aging, Bible, Church, Faith, God, Holy Spirit, Jesus, Ministry, Prayer
Jon Guttman, in his Editorial for the June, 2002 edition of Military History, wrote about three decisive battles that owed their outcomes to calculated risk-taking. He says that officers today are taught risk assessment – the art of comparing the importance of one’s...
by tschroder100@gmail.com | Sep 30, 2026 | Aging, Atheism, Bible, Church, Faith, God, Healing, Jesus, Ministry, Politics, Suffering, The World
Recently I came across an interview with John Stott, the great English preacher and writer on his life and ministry (80 Years Ago Today: The Conversion of John Stott, www.thegospelcoalition.org). In it he was asked about the state of preaching today. His reply was...
by tschroder100@gmail.com | Sep 26, 2026 | Atheism, Bible, Church, Faith, God, Holy Spirit, Jesus, Ministry, Prayer
In 1986, my wife Antoinette and I were in a shopping mall in Christchurch, New Zealand, when we noticed people looking at the televisions in the stores. My cousin, whom we were meeting for lunch, arrived, and said, “Have you heard about the space shuttle?” We hadn’t...
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