by tschroder100@gmail.com | Dec 31, 2025 | Prayer, Worship
A Prayer for the Commencement of a New Year. Almighty and immortal God, whose mercies are like your years, unnumbered, we your dependent creatures, humbly adore you for your manifold goodness to us and to all your children. Awaken in our hearts a thankful sense of...
by tschroder100@gmail.com | Dec 30, 2025 | Aging, Atheism, Bible, Church, Faith, God, Healing, Holy Spirit, Inspiration, Jesus, Ministry, Prayer, Reading, Suffering, The World
A primary symptom of depression is sadness. Freud, a sadly depressed man all through his life, admitted, “we are never so defenseless against suffering as when we love, never so helplessly unhappy as when we have lost our loved object or its love.” Our aging...
by tschroder100@gmail.com | Dec 29, 2025 | Bible, God, Inspiration, Jesus, Ministry, Prayer, Reading, The World, Witness
It is always interesting to me to discover where my readers of this blog live. The statistics of locations for the past year are illuminating. At the top of the list in the thousands are from the United States (3,823) and in their hundreds from the United...
by tschroder100@gmail.com | Dec 27, 2025 | Aging, Bible, Faith, God, Inspiration, Jesus, Ministry, Morality, Prayer, Reading, Witness, Worship
This past year I have been reading a number of books on aging to gain some wisdom on this stage of my life. Some are personal memoirs and others are somewhat academic. Many are representatives of their eras and some are dated. However the most accessible and...
by tschroder100@gmail.com | Dec 17, 2025 | Aging, Atheism, Bible, Church, Faith, God, Healing, Inspiration, Jesus, Ministry, Prayer, Reading, Suffering, The World, Witness
James Houston and Michael Parker have produced a valuable resource for Christians who are aging and for their potential caregivers. They share their own stories of aging, their prayer lives, their maturation, their experience of miracles, and their wish to leave an...
by tschroder100@gmail.com | Dec 15, 2025 | Aging, Bible, Church, Faith, God, Healing, Holy Spirit, Inspiration, Jesus, Ministry, Prayer, Suffering, Witness
Hope is the message of the Advent and Christmas Seasons: Hope of the coming of the Savior. It is the prayer of the Gospel: “May the God of Hope fill you with all joy and peace as you trust in him, so that you may overflow with hope by the power of the Holy Spirit.”...
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