by tschroder100@gmail.com | May 23, 2025 | Atheism, Bible, Church, Faith, God, Jesus, Ministry, Politics, Suffering, The World
I will never forget my first Memorial Day weekend in the USA. That Sunday morning in 1971 after I led the prayers at Christ Church, in Hamilton-Wenham, Massachusetts, I was greeting the worshippers at the door when a lady said to me, “You didn’t mention Memorial Day...
by tschroder100@gmail.com | May 21, 2025 | Aging, Faith, God, Ministry, Prayer, Reading, Suffering, The World, Worship
Father in Heaven! Great is your infinite kingdom. You bear the weight of the stars and govern the forces of the world through immense spaces; numberless as the sands are those who have life and being through you. And yet, you hear the cry of all the creatures, and the...
by tschroder100@gmail.com | May 4, 2025 | Aging, Bible, Church, Faith, God, Holy Spirit, Inspiration, Jesus, Ministry, Morality, Prayer, Reading, Sexuality, Suffering, The World, Witness, Worship
My good friend and highly esteemed pastor, Harald ‘Whitey’ Haugan has entered into glory after 93 years of a most productive and memorable life on earth. I have known Whitey since 1976 when I moved to Jacksonville, Florida. His wife, Mary, was the realtor...
by tschroder100@gmail.com | Apr 20, 2025 | Aging, Faith, God, Holy Spirit, Jesus, Suffering, Witness, Worship
On September 7, 1952 my beloved grandmother died aged 59. It was totally unexpected. She had a heart attack and in those days there was little the local physician could do to deal with her blood clot. They gave her brandy to ease her discomfort. Having had two heart...
by tschroder100@gmail.com | Apr 14, 2025 | Prayer, Suffering, Witnessing, Worship
Palm Sunday reminds me of Corrie ten Boom who always replied when people praised her for her Christian ministry that she was only the donkey on whom Jesus rode. May we learn from her humility! Jesus, King of the universe; ride on in humble majesty: Lord, this Palm...
by tschroder100@gmail.com | Mar 28, 2025 | Aging, Atheism, Faith, God, Morality, Movies, Politics, Reading, Science, Sexuality, Suffering, The World
WE HAVE CEASED TO SEE THE PURPOSE, is the title of ten of the essential speeches of Aleksander Solzhenitsyn, edited by his son Ignat Solzhenitsyn which has just been published by the University of Notre Dame Press. His Nobel Lecture in 1972 focuses on the necessity of...
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