by tschroder100@gmail.com | Jul 3, 2018 | Church, Faith, Inspiration, Islam, Jesus, Politics, Suffering, The World
I want to introduce you to one of the most enthralling works of literature that I have ever read. Between 1883 and 1888 Henryk Sienkiewicz wrote his trilogy: WITH FIRE AND SWORD, THE DELUGE, and FIRE IN THE STEPPE, for which he deservedly received the Nobel Prize in...
by tschroder100@gmail.com | May 3, 2018 | Atheism, Bible, Faith, Jesus, Morality, Politics, The World, Witness
Mikhail Bulgakov (1891-1940) wrote a fantastic satire about life in the Soviet Union that was never able to be published in his lifetime. THE MASTER AND MARGARITA was finally published in 1966 and the 150,000 copies were sold out within hours. Daniel Radcliffe, who...
by tschroder100@gmail.com | Apr 10, 2018 | Abortion, Aging, Atheism, Bible, Church, Faith, Inspiration, Jesus, Ministry, Movies, Politics, Suffering, The World, Witness
Every Lent I set myself the discipline of reading some meaty spiritual classic. This year I decided to read LOOKING FORWARD 2: Every Next Moment, The Meaning of the Cross, by a longtime friend, Harald K. Haugan, affectionately known as “Whitey”, by his shock of...
by tschroder100@gmail.com | Mar 22, 2018 | Bible, Church, Jesus, Ministry, Morality, Politics, Suffering, The World, Witness
Henri Nouwen maintains that the third temptation of Jesus was the temptation of power. “The devil took Jesus to a very high mountain and showed him all the kingdoms of the world and their splendor. ‘All this I will give you, if you will bow down and worship me.”...
by tschroder100@gmail.com | Mar 20, 2018 | Jesus, Ministry, Morality, Politics
Henri Nouwen wrote a little book of reflections on Christian leadership entitled, IN THE NAME OF JESUS. In it he analyzed the three temptations of Jesus in the wilderness after he had been baptized by John the Baptist. The first temptation he characterized by the need...
by tschroder100@gmail.com | Mar 14, 2018 | Atheism, Church, Faith, Islam, Jesus, Morality, Movies, Politics, Suffering, Witness
I have just finished reading two Christian novels that I want to commend to your attention. THE BAGHDAD EUCHARIST by Sinan Antoon is about Christians in Iraq who are trying to survive in the midst of Islamic persecution. Antoon was born in 1967 in Baghdad. He received...
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