by tschroder100@gmail.com | May 7, 2015 | Healing, Ministry, Morality, Sexuality, Witnessing
This a Guest post from Geoff Chapman, an old friend of mine who is Pastor of St. Stephen’s Church in Sewickley, Pennsylvania. It is much longer than my normal posts but well worth sharing. Desire, Celibacy, Homosexuality: Hard Questions and Gospel Answers Geoff...
by tschroder100@gmail.com | May 6, 2015 | Jesus, Ministry, Witness, Worship
Andrew Purves, Professor at Pittsburgh Theological Seminary, in his book, The Crucifixion of Ministry, maintains that about 40 percent of clergy suffer from mild to severe burnout. National figures show that around one-third of ordained persons leave the ministry...
by tschroder100@gmail.com | Apr 25, 2015 | Healing, Ministry, Suffering
Thomas E. Reynolds is father to a son who has been diagnosed with Tourette’s syndrome, Asperger’s syndrome, bipolar disorder and obsessive-compulsive disorder. Because of his disability churches they have attended requested that he not be in their Sunday School...
by tschroder100@gmail.com | Mar 31, 2015 | Faith, Jesus, Ministry, Suffering
“Jesus knew that the time had come for him to leave this world and go to the Father….Jesus knew that the Father had put all things under his power, and that he had come from God and was returning to God.” Jesus must have shared his self-consciousness with John and...
by tschroder100@gmail.com | Feb 17, 2015 | Aging, Inspiration, Ministry, Witnessing
I was told the other day that old age begins at eighty! If that is so, how should you view the decade before eighty? When he reached his seventieth birthday the great missionary to the Muslim world, Samuel Zwemer gave a talk to the Warfield club at Princeton Seminary...
by tschroder100@gmail.com | Feb 5, 2015 | Ministry, Politics, The World, Witness
Yesterday I had the privilege of meeting for the first time Dr. William Udotong who is the Provost of West Africa Theological Seminary in Lagos. Nigeria. Lagos (pop. 21 million) is one of the largest cities in the world. Nigeria is the most populous nation in Africa....
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