by tschroder100@gmail.com | Apr 15, 2015 | Aging, Inspiration, Suffering
How do you handle the down times in your lives, when you get discouraged, and feel that you are less productive, more ineffective, and you don’t seem to achieve your goals, or fulfill your agenda? I have come to believe that there is a certain rhythm to life, as there...
by tschroder100@gmail.com | Apr 14, 2015 | Faith, Healing, Suffering
I came across a wonderful quote in Dallas Willard’s admirable book, Renovation of the Heart (p.228). “A depressed and hopeless man came to John Wesley to inquire what message he gave to the multitudes of hearers he regularly addressed, morning and evening. Wesley...
by tschroder100@gmail.com | Apr 11, 2015 | Faith, Inspiration, Suffering
Jim Wood, of Wears Valley Ranch in Tennessee and a former student of mine from Gordon College days, spoke at our monthly Chapel men’s breakfast from Colossians 3:13. It struck me that his message was extremely relevant to a couple of friends who have been...
by tschroder100@gmail.com | Mar 31, 2015 | Faith, Jesus, Ministry, Suffering
“Jesus knew that the time had come for him to leave this world and go to the Father….Jesus knew that the Father had put all things under his power, and that he had come from God and was returning to God.” Jesus must have shared his self-consciousness with John and...
by tschroder100@gmail.com | Mar 26, 2015 | Faith, Suffering
What do you say to people who say that they have never experienced the presence of God or who don’t believe in God because of all the suffering in the world? People can either be distanced from God because of an experience of suffering or they can be drawn closer to...
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