by tschroder100@gmail.com | Sep 19, 2026 | Atheism, Bible, Faith, God, Islam, Jesus, Ministry, Politics, Prayer, Science, Suffering
Doubt is a double-edged sword. It can act as either a deterrent or a stimulant. Doubt about whether it was possible to sail west across the Atlantic Ocean could have kept Christopher Columbus from discovering America. Instead, he doubted that the world was flat and...
by tschroder100@gmail.com | Sep 9, 2026 | Atheism, Bible, Faith, God, Jesus, Ministry, Reading, Science
A few miles south of where I live on Amelia Island, BAE Systems, on Hecksher Drive in Jacksonville, has made a business of fitting out ships. Located on the St. John’s River, it has easy access to the Atlantic Ocean through Mayport. On May 26, 1987, the Nicor...
by tschroder100@gmail.com | Sep 2, 2026 | God, Holy Spirit, Jesus, Ministry, Morality, Politics, Suffering, The World
“Give everyone what you owe him: If you owe taxes, pay taxes; if revenue, then revenue; if respect, then respect; if honor, then honor. Let no debt remain outstanding, except the continuing debt to love one another.” (Romans 13:7-8) Kierkegaard paraphrases St. Paul:...
by tschroder100@gmail.com | Aug 29, 2026 | Aging, God, Jesus, Ministry, Morality, Prayer, The World
“Love never fails.” (1 Corinthians 13:8) Divine love stands forever, for God is love, and only God is eternal. Everything that is created is contingent, dependent, temporary, mortal. Therefore only love from God, love that is given by God, love that partakes of the...
by tschroder100@gmail.com | Aug 24, 2026 | Atheism, God, Healing, Jesus, Ministry, Morality, Politics, Reading, Suffering, The World
Marie Kawthar Daouda is a Lecturer in French at Oriel College, Oxford University. Born and raised in Morocco in a bilingual French and Moroccan Arabic family she enrolled in the prestigious Lycée Henri-IV in Paris at 17 and completed her doctorate in French and...
by tschroder100@gmail.com | Aug 22, 2026 | Aging, Bible, Faith, God, Inspiration, Jesus, Ministry, Morality, Suffering
“Love knows no limit to its endurance, no end to its trust, no fading of its hope; it can outlast anything. It is, in fact, the one thing that still stands when all else is fallen.” (1 Corinthians 13:7, J.B.Phillips) Paul is indicating “an active, vigorous endurance,...
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