by tschroder100@gmail.com | Oct 2, 2022 | Abortion, Aging, Atheism, Bible, Church, Faith, God, Holy Spirit, Inspiration, Jesus, Ministry, Morality, Politics, Science, Sexuality, Suffering, The World, Witness
Sermon on Acts 2:14-41 preached at Church of Our Savior, Jacksonville Beach, Florida, Sunday, October 2, 2022 We continue today a series on Acts and the mission of the church with the message of Peter explaining the coming of the Holy Spirit upon the Christian...
by tschroder100@gmail.com | Sep 24, 2022 | Atheism, Bible, Church, Faith, God, Holy Spirit, Inspiration, Jesus, Ministry, Morality, Politics, Reading, Science, Sexuality, Suffering, The World, Witness, Worship
Enlightenment thinkers in the eighteenth century understood the world through the lens of experimental science. Believing that all phenomena operated according to universal natural laws, they judged every intellectual proposition according to the test of reason. Their...
by tschroder100@gmail.com | Sep 14, 2022 | Aging, Bible, Church, Faith, God, Jesus, Ministry, Politics, Witness, Worship
“Blessed are those who mourn, for they will be comforted.” (Matthew 5:4) The National Days of Mourning in the United Kingdom for the death of Queen Elizabeth II as covered on television are a salutary reminder of the need for a solemn period of grieving on the death...
by tschroder100@gmail.com | Sep 9, 2022 | Church, Faith, God, Holy Spirit, Jesus, Ministry, Morality, Politics, Prayer, The World, Witness
In the Book of Common Prayer (BCP) of the Church of England there is an Accession Service to be used on the anniversary day of the accession of the new sovereign. In the various copies of the BCP in my library the sovereigns mentioned are Charles II, William IV,...
by tschroder100@gmail.com | Aug 28, 2022 | Abortion, Atheism, Church, Faith, God, Jesus, Ministry, Morality, Politics, Suffering, The World, Witness, Worship
I have been reading Soren Kierkegaard’s “Practice in Christianity” and commentaries about it. He wrote it in 1849 as a critique of how Christianity was presented in the Church of Denmark. In particular he criticized the preaching of his bishop who influenced a...
by tschroder100@gmail.com | Aug 19, 2022 | Faith, God, Healing, Inspiration, Ministry, Morality, Politics, Suffering, The World, Witness
Senator Tim Scott has written a memoir and a love letter to America: A Redemption Story, subtitled, Choosing Hope, Creating Unity. He writes, “I challenge you to become love in the face of hate. Choose optimism in the face of cynicism. Identify with grace rather than...
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