by tschroder100@gmail.com | Jan 13, 2018 | Politics, Reading, Suffering, The World
I am reading through Ron Chernow’s biography of Ulysses S. Grant. Chernow never disappoints me. I have read his biographies of Washington and Hamilton. His Grant is well worth slogging through over 900 pages. With the current hysteria about how bad things are in...
by tschroder100@gmail.com | Dec 19, 2017 | Atheism, Bible, Faith, Jesus, Ministry, Suffering, The World
Why did Jesus have to come amongst us? Why was it necessary for God to enter into our world in the way he did? Why is the coming of Jesus so important to you and to me? Why do we need Jesus? There are so many people who are indifferent to Jesus and who could care less...
by tschroder100@gmail.com | Nov 22, 2017 | Inspiration, Prayer, Suffering, The World, Witness
Proclamation of Thanksgiving This is the proclamation which set the precedent for America’s national day of Thanksgiving. During his administration, President Lincoln issued many orders similar to this. For example, on November 28, 1861, he ordered government...
by tschroder100@gmail.com | Oct 3, 2017 | Atheism, Bible, Jesus, Ministry, Suffering, The World
In the light of the recent hurricanes and the massacre in Las Vegas, which President Trump described as an act of pure evil, I share with you a chapter from my book SURVIVING HURRICANES, which deals with the source of evil. Evil is a theological category and cannot be...
by tschroder100@gmail.com | Sep 14, 2017 | Jesus, Suffering, The World
On September 5, 2004 Hurricane Frances pummeled our home. We had decided to stay. I wrote about hurricanes as a metaphor for evil and other related themes in my book, SURVIVING HURRICANES. Last year we endured Hurricane Matthew when we lost three big trees in our yard...
by tschroder100@gmail.com | Sep 5, 2017 | Inspiration, Movies, Politics, The World
After going to see the movie, DUNKIRK, and being rather depressed by it I decided to read THE MIRACLE OF DUNKIRK, by Walter Lord. This is the definitive account of what happened in May 1940. If you want to know the true and whole story of what happened I commend this...
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