by tschroder100@gmail.com | Sep 8, 2025 | Bible, Church, Faith, God, Holy Spirit, Inspiration, Jesus, Ministry, Morality, Politics, Prayer, Reading, Suffering, The World, Witness, Worship
John (and thereby his readers with him) is taken up into heaven in order to see the world from the heavenly perspective. He is given a glimpse behind the scenes of history so that he can see what is really going on in the events of his time and place. He is also...
by tschroder100@gmail.com | Sep 6, 2025 | Bible, Faith, God, Holy Spirit, Jesus, Ministry, Morality, Politics, Prayer, Reading, Sexuality, Suffering, The World, Witness, Worship
I am beginning a twelve week class study on Revelation this coming Tuesday. I found the following summary of an introduction from Ian Paul’s commentary most helpful. Reading Revelation’s imagery The book of Revelation uses a series of metaphors. Metaphor is at...
by tschroder100@gmail.com | Sep 2, 2025 | Suffering, The World
U.S. 2nd Marine Division march through the streets of Wellington, New Zealand, June 1942 This day, eighty years ago, September 2, 1945, is my first memory as a child of four years old. It was V-J Day, when the representatives of the Empire of Japan signed a surrender...
by tschroder100@gmail.com | Aug 22, 2025 | Atheism, Morality, Politics, Reading, Suffering, The World
Daniel Finkelsein, a political columnist at the London Times, tells the story of his Jewish parents and grandparents harrowing story of survival during World War II. His father and grandparents lived in Lwow, Poland (now Lviv, Ukraine) in successful and affluent...
by tschroder100@gmail.com | Aug 19, 2025 | Politics, Reading, Suffering, The World
While observing all the activity among European and American leaders meeting together to find ways of stopping the war in Ukraine I reflected on how that region of the world has undergone multiple invasions and wars over the centuries: the Turks, the Mongols, the...
by tschroder100@gmail.com | Aug 15, 2025 | Abortion, Aging, Bible, Faith, God, Healing, Jesus, Ministry, Reading, Science, Suffering, The World, Witness
In response to his disciples asking him about the reason for a man blind born blind Jesus replied, “Neither this man nor his parents sinned, but this happened so that the work of God might be displayed in his life.” (John 9:3) Rod Whitacre in his commentary on this...
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