by tschroder100@gmail.com | Feb 11, 2026 | Aging, Atheism, Bible, Faith, God, Jesus, Ministry, Science, The World, Worship
One of the most frequent questions I get from strangers is, “Where are you from?” My accent betrays my origins. If we want to get to know people we inquire about their origins, where they were raised. We carry our origins throughout our lives. They form us, they...
by tschroder100@gmail.com | Feb 7, 2026 | Atheism, Bible, Faith, God, Inspiration, Jesus, Ministry, Morality, Reading, Science, The World
The book of Genesis is a divinely inspired collection of ancient writings that provide a remarkable narrative of primeval history. It is not a scientific dissertation in which one academic speaks only to another academic about his research. Instead it reflects the...
by tschroder100@gmail.com | Jan 30, 2026 | Abortion, Aging, Bible, Faith, God, Jesus, Ministry, Morality, Politics, Reading, Suffering, The World
“Again I looked and saw all the oppression that was taking place: I saw all the tears of the oppressed – and they have no comforter; power was on the side of their oppressors. And I saw that all labor and all achievement spring from man’s envy of his neighbor. Again I...
by tschroder100@gmail.com | Jan 14, 2026 | Aging, God, Jesus, Ministry, The World, Witness
Work? You either love it or you hate it. For Ecclesiastes there is an ambivalence (read 2:17 and 24). You can either dread it or find satisfaction in it. I grew up in a family whose life was their work. We lived in the business and we worked from the time we got up in...
by tschroder100@gmail.com | Dec 30, 2025 | Aging, Atheism, Bible, Church, Faith, God, Healing, Holy Spirit, Inspiration, Jesus, Ministry, Prayer, Reading, Suffering, The World
A primary symptom of depression is sadness. Freud, a sadly depressed man all through his life, admitted, “we are never so defenseless against suffering as when we love, never so helplessly unhappy as when we have lost our loved object or its love.” Our aging...
by tschroder100@gmail.com | Dec 29, 2025 | Bible, God, Inspiration, Jesus, Ministry, Prayer, Reading, The World, Witness
It is always interesting to me to discover where my readers of this blog live. The statistics of locations for the past year are illuminating. At the top of the list in the thousands are from the United States (3,823) and in their hundreds from the United...
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