by tschroder100@gmail.com | Nov 14, 2015 | Inspiration, Islam, Jesus, Ministry, Morality, Movies, Politics, Sexuality, Suffering, The World
My wife and I went to see the movie SUFFRAGETTE. It is a powerful presentation of the movement to win voting rights for women in Great Britain at the beginning of the 20th century. Carey Mulligan plays the lead role of a working class mother who became involved in the...
by tschroder100@gmail.com | Nov 11, 2015 | Aging, Ministry, Suffering
Atul Gawande, surgeon, author and public health researcher, in his recent book Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End, argues that the reluctance to honestly examine the experience of aging and dying has increased the harm we inflict on people and deny...
by tschroder100@gmail.com | Nov 5, 2015 | Church, Jesus, Ministry
Last Saturday New Zealand won the Rugby World Cup by defeating Australia. This makes New Zealand the first country to win three times. The newspapers and commentators opined on why this small nation of 4.5 million in the South Pacific should be so successful at this...
by tschroder100@gmail.com | Nov 4, 2015 | Inspiration, Jesus, Ministry, Prayer, Witness
There is a television commercial for a credit card that concludes with the question: “What’s in your wallet?” I fished out my wallet and looked inside. I found that I carried two prayers. One is from Ephesians 3:14-19 and the other is from a hymn, written by Ada...
by tschroder100@gmail.com | Oct 27, 2015 | Jesus, Ministry, The World, Witnessing
We live in a pluralistic world where there is freedom of speech and religion. Tolerance is the highest virtue. “Anything Goes” is more than the title of a song by Cole Porter. Any attempt to assert an absolute truth is condemned unless that truth is that there is no...
by tschroder100@gmail.com | Oct 22, 2015 | Bible, Church, Ministry, Worship
A leading member of my congregation raised with me the subject matter of my preaching. He wondered whether more preaching on topical subjects would be more relevant than expounding the meaning of Bible passages. Topical preaching can be most effective for special...
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