by tschroder100@gmail.com | Dec 13, 2017 | Aging, Inspiration, Ministry, Prayer, Suffering
Sherman Macdaniel has published an Alzheimer’s Caregivers Guide entitled, Welcome Stranger. The title reminds us that the caregiver becomes a stranger to the patient even though they may have been married or children for years. This transformation is one of the most...
by tschroder100@gmail.com | Dec 9, 2017 | Faith, Healing, Jesus, Ministry, Prayer, Suffering
How do you recover after your friends and family are murdered in church one Sunday morning, as happened on November 5 at First Baptist Church, Sutherland Springs, Texas? How do you recover from the devastating hurricanes or wildfires of this Fall? How do you recover...
by tschroder100@gmail.com | Nov 30, 2017 | Aging, Faith, Jesus, Ministry, Prayer, Suffering, Witness, Witnessing
Daniel Im in NO SILVER BULLETS: 5 Small Shifts That Will Transform Your Ministry quotes Charles Spurgeon saying, “Every Christian here is either a missionary or an impostor. Recollect that. You either try to spread abroad the kingdom of Christ, or else you do not love...
by tschroder100@gmail.com | Nov 15, 2017 | Church, Inspiration, Ministry
Recently I have been meeting with some local pastors to explore whether they can benefit from what I have learned in fifty years in the Christian ministry. While seminary training is of benefit in learning about Christian doctrine, history, theology and worship it...
by tschroder100@gmail.com | Nov 7, 2017 | Church, Faith, Jesus, Ministry, Suffering, Worship
My dear friend from San Antonio, Max Lucado, has written the following devotional on his blog www.maxlucado.com. “Do not fear those who kill the body but cannot kill the soul.” Matthew 10:28 Yet again, yet so soon, we struggle to make sense of bloodshed and violence....
by tschroder100@gmail.com | Oct 26, 2017 | Bible, Church, Faith, Jesus, Ministry, Witness, Worship
Five hundred years ago on the eve of All Saints’ Day, October 31, 1517, Martin Luther, an Augustinian monk from the University of Wittenberg in Germany nailed his 95 Theses to the door of the college church proposing a discussion of the theology of indulgences. He...
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