by tschroder100@gmail.com | Sep 22, 2025 | Bible, God, Holy Spirit, Jesus, Ministry, Prayer, Suffering, The World, Witness, Worship
REVELATION 4 John here offers a dazzling vision of God which pushes the boundaries of human imagination in its metaphorical description. John’s own language reflects this; in contrast with what has gone before, he now repeatedly reaches for ‘as’ and ‘ was like’ and...
by tschroder100@gmail.com | Sep 8, 2025 | Bible, Church, Faith, God, Holy Spirit, Inspiration, Jesus, Ministry, Morality, Politics, Prayer, Reading, Suffering, The World, Witness, Worship
John (and thereby his readers with him) is taken up into heaven in order to see the world from the heavenly perspective. He is given a glimpse behind the scenes of history so that he can see what is really going on in the events of his time and place. He is also...
by tschroder100@gmail.com | Sep 6, 2025 | Bible, Faith, God, Holy Spirit, Jesus, Ministry, Morality, Politics, Prayer, Reading, Sexuality, Suffering, The World, Witness, Worship
I am beginning a twelve week class study on Revelation this coming Tuesday. I found the following summary of an introduction from Ian Paul’s commentary most helpful. Reading Revelation’s imagery The book of Revelation uses a series of metaphors. Metaphor is at...
by tschroder100@gmail.com | Sep 2, 2025 | Suffering, The World
U.S. 2nd Marine Division march through the streets of Wellington, New Zealand, June 1942 This day, eighty years ago, September 2, 1945, is my first memory as a child of four years old. It was V-J Day, when the representatives of the Empire of Japan signed a surrender...
by tschroder100@gmail.com | Aug 22, 2025 | Atheism, Morality, Politics, Reading, Suffering, The World
Daniel Finkelsein, a political columnist at the London Times, tells the story of his Jewish parents and grandparents harrowing story of survival during World War II. His father and grandparents lived in Lwow, Poland (now Lviv, Ukraine) in successful and affluent...
by tschroder100@gmail.com | Aug 19, 2025 | Politics, Reading, Suffering, The World
While observing all the activity among European and American leaders meeting together to find ways of stopping the war in Ukraine I reflected on how that region of the world has undergone multiple invasions and wars over the centuries: the Turks, the Mongols, the...
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