by tschroder100@gmail.com | Oct 3, 2026 | Aging, Bible, Church, Faith, God, Holy Spirit, Jesus, Ministry, Prayer
Jon Guttman, in his Editorial for the June, 2002 edition of Military History, wrote about three decisive battles that owed their outcomes to calculated risk-taking. He says that officers today are taught risk assessment – the art of comparing the importance of one’s...
by tschroder100@gmail.com | Sep 26, 2026 | Atheism, Bible, Church, Faith, God, Holy Spirit, Jesus, Ministry, Prayer
In 1986, my wife Antoinette and I were in a shopping mall in Christchurch, New Zealand, when we noticed people looking at the televisions in the stores. My cousin, whom we were meeting for lunch, arrived, and said, “Have you heard about the space shuttle?” We hadn’t...
by tschroder100@gmail.com | Sep 23, 2026 | Atheism, Bible, Faith, God, Inspiration, Jesus, Prayer, Reading, Witness
The book of Ecclesiastes in the Bible expresses the skepticism of a life that has seen most things, and finds it hard to make sense of it all. The more we know about life, the more cynical we can become. We may have more, rather than less, unanswered questions as we...
by tschroder100@gmail.com | Sep 19, 2026 | Atheism, Bible, Faith, God, Islam, Jesus, Ministry, Politics, Prayer, Science, Suffering
Doubt is a double-edged sword. It can act as either a deterrent or a stimulant. Doubt about whether it was possible to sail west across the Atlantic Ocean could have kept Christopher Columbus from discovering America. Instead, he doubted that the world was flat and...
by tschroder100@gmail.com | Sep 11, 2026 | Politics, Prayer, Suffering, The World
O Almighty God, who brings good out of evil and turns the shadow of death into morning: Hear our prayers this day as we remember those of many nations and differing faiths whose lives were cut short by the fierce flames of anger and hatred. Hasten the time when the...
by tschroder100@gmail.com | Aug 29, 2026 | Aging, God, Jesus, Ministry, Morality, Prayer, The World
“Love never fails.” (1 Corinthians 13:8) Divine love stands forever, for God is love, and only God is eternal. Everything that is created is contingent, dependent, temporary, mortal. Therefore only love from God, love that is given by God, love that partakes of the...
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