by tschroder100@gmail.com | Jan 18, 2025 | Aging, Faith, God, Healing, Jesus, Ministry, Movies, Prayer, Suffering, Worship
I am aware of many friends and family members who are going through hard times. They are either in hospital, undergoing treatment, or struggling with various maladies of aging. Their bodies are not what they used to be and they suffer new ailments they never thought...
by tschroder100@gmail.com | Jan 4, 2025 | Aging, Faith, God, Islam, Jesus, Ministry, Movies, Prayer, Reading, Suffering
O my Lord God, this is the awful burden I feel in ageing: that I am your useless servant. My body is lumpish and clumsy, its beauty gone: I am stiff on my thickened legs, and cannot speed about serving others and you. My thoughts seem not to come out clearly, and I...
by tschroder100@gmail.com | Nov 30, 2024 | Abortion, Aging, Atheism, Bible, Faith, God, Holy Spirit, Jesus, Ministry, Morality, Movies, Reading, Science
The other day I came upon the “age-old ego-stripping questions of place (Where am I?), origin (Where did I come from?), destiny (Where am I going?), identity (Who am I?), and purpose (Why am I?)”. These five questions cause us to reflect on the meaning of our lives in...
by tschroder100@gmail.com | Nov 22, 2024 | Bible, Church, Faith, God, Holy Spirit, Islam, Jesus, Ministry, Movies
In my early teenage years I struggled with the desire to be a good person, while at the same time questioning the value of the Christian faith. I was not able to be the ideal person I wanted to be. As hard as I tried, I could not live up to the moral standards of the...
by tschroder100@gmail.com | Oct 19, 2024 | Aging, Atheism, Bible, Faith, God, Jesus, Ministry, Movies, Politics, Science, Sexuality, Suffering, Witness
In the winter term 1971 I participated in a mission to Durham University where I had studied from 1964-67. It consisted of lectures by the well-known evangelist David Watson who was pastor of a church in York and the author of eight popular books on the Christian...
by tschroder100@gmail.com | Oct 11, 2024 | Atheism, Bible, Church, Faith, God, Jesus, Ministry, Morality, Movies, Politics, Reading, Science, Sexuality, Suffering, The World, Worship
We visited the Columbia (SC) Museum of Art to view 45 paintings of the Hudson River School of Painters on loan from the New York Historical Society. Antoinette and I also viewed them at an exhibition in the National Gallery in London. The magnificent landscapes of...
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