by tschroder100@gmail.com | Mar 12, 2026 | Atheism, Bible, Faith, God, Healing, Islam, Jesus, Ministry, Morality, Politics, Prayer, Reading, Suffering, The World, Witness, Worship
The Ayatollah Khomeini, Supreme Leader of the Islamic Republic of Iran in 1979 called the USA the “Great Satan”. He also called Israel the “Little Satan.” St. Paul looked deeper for the source of evil in the world. “For our struggle is not against flesh and blood, but...
by tschroder100@gmail.com | Mar 9, 2026 | Atheism, Bible, Faith, God, Jesus, Ministry, Morality, Politics, Reading, Science, Suffering, The World
When is experiencing evil either a reason for believing in God, or an argument against the existence of God? C.S. Lewis, in Mere Christianity, says that his argument against God was that the universe seemed so cruel and unjust. But then he asked himself where he got...
by tschroder100@gmail.com | Mar 7, 2026 | Aging, Atheism, Bible, Faith, God, Jesus, Ministry, Reading, Science, Suffering, The World
“This is the evil in everything that happens under the sun: The same destiny overtakes all. The hearts of men, moreover, are full of evil and there is madness in their hearts while they live, and afterward they join the dead…. The race is not to the swift or the...
by tschroder100@gmail.com | Mar 5, 2026 | Aging, Bible, Faith, God, Reading, Suffering, The World
On the evening of September 5, 2004, my wife and I were watching the progress of Hurricane Frances on the television in our home when the power failed. Left in the darkness we listened to the wind roaring over us, the trees thudding against the roof, and the crack of...
by tschroder100@gmail.com | Mar 2, 2026 | Morality, Politics, Reading, Suffering, The World
Nigel Biggar was Regius Professor of Moral and Pastoral Theology, and Director of the McDonald Centre for Theology, Ethics and Public Life at the University of Oxford. Here are some of his thoughts from his 2013 book, In Defence of War. “This is the dilemma: on the...
by tschroder100@gmail.com | Feb 27, 2026 | Aging, Bible, Faith, God, Healing, Inspiration, Jesus, Ministry, Science, Suffering, The World
“I consider that our present sufferings are not worth comparing with the glory that will be revealed in us. The creation waits in eager expectation for the sons of God to be revealed.” (Romans 8:18,19) “This paragraph, from verse 18 to verse 25, is the classic...
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