by tschroder100@gmail.com | May 6, 2022 | Bible, Church, Faith, God, Holy Spirit, Inspiration, Jesus, Ministry, Morality, Prayer, Suffering, Witness, Worship
Finally, brothers, pray for us that the message of the Lord may spread rapidly and be honored, just as it was with you. And pray that we may be delivered from wicked and evil men, for not everyone has faith. But the Lord is faithful, and he will strengthen and...
by tschroder100@gmail.com | May 1, 2022 | Bible, Church, Faith, God, Holy Spirit, Inspiration, Jesus, Ministry, Morality, Prayer, Reading, The World, Witness, Worship
In an article for Christianity Today (Friday, April 29, 2022) Glenn Packiam writes, “Pastors do not hold the place of community esteem they once did. According to Barna’s State of Pastors report (2017), only about one in five Americans thinks of a pastor as very...
by tschroder100@gmail.com | Apr 12, 2022 | Aging, Bible, Church, Faith, God, Holy Spirit, Jesus, Ministry, Prayer, Suffering, Witness, Worship
It was on Holy Thursday (AKA Maundy Thursday) of his last week that Jesus instituted his Lord’s Supper which has also become known as Holy Communion, the Eucharist or the Mass. It was his replacement of the Passover which was celebrated annually to remind the...
by tschroder100@gmail.com | Apr 8, 2022 | Jesus, Morality, Prayer, Sexuality, Suffering, Witness
Jesus said, “If any man would come after me, let him deny himself and take up his cross and follow me” (Mark 8:34). This is Jesus’s figure of speech for self-denial. Every disciple of Jesus is to ‘behave like a condemned criminal and carry his cross to the place of...
by tschroder100@gmail.com | Mar 17, 2022 | Faith, God, Healing, Jesus, Ministry, Morality, Politics, Prayer, Suffering, The World, Worship
Prayers in time of war. Lord, God, of infinite mercy, we pray that you would look in compassion upon those now involved in war. Pardon our offences, our pride and arrogance, our self-sufficiency and forgetfulness of you. Give wisdom to leaders, courage and endurance...
by tschroder100@gmail.com | Mar 13, 2022 | Aging, Atheism, Bible, Church, Faith, God, Holy Spirit, Inspiration, Jesus, Ministry, Politics, Prayer, Suffering, The World, Witness
This message was given by Corrie ten Boom at the First International Congress on World Evangelization in Lausanne, Switzerland, in 1974. In the Bible we read in Colossians 1:11, ‘As you live this new life with Jesus Christ, we pray that you will be strengthened...
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