by tschroder100@gmail.com | Nov 1, 2025 | Aging, Atheism, Bible, Church, Faith, God, Healing, Inspiration, Jesus, Ministry, Prayer, Reading, Suffering, The World, Witness, Worship
November 1st has always been celebrated as All Saints’ Day when Christians remember their communion with all the saints, the unity of God’s people in this world and the next. November 2nd is also celebrated as All Souls’ Day when Christians commemorate all the...
by tschroder100@gmail.com | Oct 31, 2025 | Aging, Atheism, Bible, Church, Faith, God, Healing, Inspiration, Jesus, Ministry, Prayer, Reading, Suffering, The World, Witness, Worship
Jonathan Swift in Gulliver’s Travels invented the immortal Stuldbrugs of the flying island of Laputa. Gulliver supposed they would be wise, serene and knowledgeable because of their great age, and instead found them the most miserable of creatures, excruciatingly...
by tschroder100@gmail.com | Oct 28, 2025 | Aging, Atheism, Bible, Church, Faith, God, Jesus, Ministry, Morality, Movies, Politics, Prayer, Reading, Science, Sexuality, Suffering, The World, Witness, Worship
I have recently reread Fyodor Dostoevsky’s (1821-1881) masterpiece and longest novel The Brothers Karamazov, translated from the Russian by Michael R. Katz (2023). Sigmund Freud called it “the most magnificent novel ever written”. This is the third time I have read...
by tschroder100@gmail.com | Oct 26, 2025 | Atheism, Bible, Church, Faith, Inspiration, Jesus, Ministry, Morality, Politics, Prayer, Reading, Suffering, The World, Witness, Worship
REVELATION 14:1-5 John now offers a sevenfold description of the 144,000. “They did not defile themselves with women” (v.4) does not mean that the redeemed are men only. It needs to be read here in three contexts: 1. The use of sexual imagery as a metaphor for worship...
by tschroder100@gmail.com | Oct 13, 2025 | Bible, Church, Faith, God, Holy Spirit, Jesus, Ministry, Politics, Prayer, Reading, Suffering, The World, Witness, Worship
REVELATION 10 Three of the most important theological questions to ask are: ‘What time is it?’, ‘Where are we?’ and ‘Who am I?’ In this interlude, through complex allusions to a wide range of Old Testament texts, this part of John’s vision report addresses these...
by tschroder100@gmail.com | Oct 6, 2025 | Bible, Church, Faith, God, Holy Spirit, Inspiration, Jesus, Ministry, Morality, Politics, Prayer, Reading, Suffering, The World, Witness, Worship
REVELATION 8 John’s readers live in a violent, chaotic and frightening world, one in which the sometimes terrifying events that they saw around them were often interpreted as portents of doom and disaster. John’s accounts of the first four trumpets effects a...
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