by tschroder100@gmail.com | Feb 2, 2019 | Bible, Church, Faith, Healing, Inspiration, Jesus, Ministry, Morality, Prayer, Suffering, The World, Witness, Worship
Job lost his family, his fortune, his reputation, and his health. He works through his grief, through depression, through anger, through arguing with God and his friends who try to explain why he is suffering. Job wants God to answer his complaints. A storm comes...
by tschroder100@gmail.com | Jan 25, 2019 | Aging, Faith, Healing, Jesus, Ministry, Prayer, Suffering
Job lost his fortune, his family, and his health. “After this, Job opened his mouth and cursed the day of his birth.” (Job 3:1) After the shock and the stress of his painful suffering he descends into the depths of despair. He loses hope, and questions his faith in a...
by tschroder100@gmail.com | Jan 22, 2019 | Atheism, Bible, Faith, Jesus, Ministry, Prayer, Suffering, Worship
How do you cope with evil? The book of Job is the classic treatment of undeserved suffering in the Bible. In chapter one Job is described as blameless and upright; he feared God and shunned evil. Yet a combination of natural disaster and human depravity devastates his...
by tschroder100@gmail.com | Jan 17, 2019 | Bible, Church, Faith, Inspiration, Jesus, Ministry, Prayer, Witness
Before I enter the pulpit to preach I habitually kneel to ask God’s help. I pray that God would drive away all the snares of the enemy, that he would fill me with his Holy Spirit, and that he would open the hearts of the hearers to his truth. I am aware that I am a...
by tschroder100@gmail.com | Jan 13, 2019 | Church, Jesus, Ministry, Prayer, Reading, Suffering, The World, Witness
I have never found it easy to preach to congregations I do not know. I much prefer to be at home in the pulpit with my own congregation, with the people who know me. This section from John Stott explains why I feel that way. “Though you have many countless guides in...
by tschroder100@gmail.com | Dec 22, 2018 | Atheism, Bible, Church, Faith, Islam, Jesus, Politics, Prayer, Suffering, Uncategorized, Witness, Worship
On March 7, 1984, Jerry Levin, director of the CNN Middle East Bureau was walking from his Beirut, Lebanon apartment to his office when he was kidnapped by the terrorist group Hezbollah. He was placed in solitary confinement, chained to a radiator that didn’t work,...
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