by tschroder100@gmail.com | Feb 16, 2019 | Abortion, Aging, Atheism, Bible, Church, Jesus, Ministry, Morality, Politics, Sexuality, Suffering, The World, Witness
There is a great need in the church today for a biblical, Christian philosophy of history. Most of us are short-sighted and narrow-minded. We are so preoccupied with current affairs in the present century, that neither the past nor the future has any great interest...
by tschroder100@gmail.com | Dec 12, 2018 | Aging, Atheism, Bible, Church, Faith, Inspiration, Jesus, Ministry, Morality, Politics, Prayer, Reading, Science, Sexuality, Suffering, The World
Here are the most significant books I read this past year. They are from a variety of genres: spiritual, devotional, theological, philosophical, biographical, and fictional. You might something in the list that appeals to you. I must say that the Sienkiewicz trilogy...
by tschroder100@gmail.com | Dec 1, 2018 | Bible, Church, Faith, Inspiration, Jesus, Ministry, Sexuality, The World, Witness, Worship
The following is the commentary of John Stott (1921-2011) on the churches at Pergamum and Thyatira in Revelation 2:12-29. Truth and holiness are the third and fourth marks of the living church. Some Christians are so resolved to make love paramount, that they forget...
by tschroder100@gmail.com | Oct 20, 2018 | Morality, Movies, Reading, Sexuality, Suffering, The World
I have been reading the novels and stories of Stefan Zweig (1881-1942) and have been fascinated by his insight into the psychology of his characters. Zweig was an Austrian who knew and appreciated Sigmund Freud and his theories of the unconscious. His knowledge of...
by tschroder100@gmail.com | Oct 3, 2018 | Bible, Church, Faith, Jesus, Prayer, Sexuality
Jesus said, “This is how you should pray: ‘Our Father’. (Matthew 6:9) Our very familiarity with the Lord’s Prayer, and Christianity, dulls our awareness of the unique relationship that Jesus made possible. To say “Our Father” is to claim membership in a family that...
by tschroder100@gmail.com | Aug 22, 2018 | Church, Jesus, Ministry, Morality, Sexuality
The release of a grand jury report on the Roman Catholic clergy sexual abuse over many years in Pennsylvania prompts me to post this diagnosis which I shared three years ago. The question to be asked is why bishops, and others in the world-wide Roman Catholic...
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