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 29, 2019 | Bible, Church, Faith, Healing, Ministry, Suffering, Witness
“When Job’s three friends…heard about all the troubles that had come upon him, they set out from their homes and met together by agreement to go and sympathize with him and comfort him. When they saw him from a distance, they could hardly recognize him; they began to...
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 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 | Jan 11, 2019 | Atheism, Bible, Church, Faith, Jesus, Ministry, Suffering, Witness
Jesus Christ stands on trial at the bar of world opinion. Secular, godless, non-Christian society, now uncommitted, now hostile, is in the role of judge. The devil accuses him with many ugly lies. The Holy Spirit is the counsel for the defense. He calls us to be...
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