by tschroder100@gmail.com | Jul 29, 2018 | Aging, Bible, Church, Faith, Jesus, Ministry, Politics, Prayer, Suffering, The World, Witness
Icon of St. George slaying the dragon This is Paul’s peroration in Romans 8: the concluding part of a speech in which there is a summing up and emphatic recapitulation. “What, then, shall we say in response to this?” (Romans 8:31) St. Paul has been arguing that...
by tschroder100@gmail.com | Jul 10, 2018 | Inspiration, Ministry, Politics, Prayer, Witness
I came across this prayer of Michel Quoist as I was packing my books. It expresses what I often think as I prepare to preach, and when I am told to keep silent. Speech is God’s gift. We shall have to account for it. It is through words that we communicate with each...
by tschroder100@gmail.com | May 20, 2018 | Church, Inspiration, Ministry, Witness
At his Ascension Jesus promised the disciples that “you will receive power when the Holy Spirit has come upon you, and you will be my witnesses… to the end of the earth (Acts 1:8). When the day of Pentecost arrived a mighty rushing wind and tongues of fire rested on...
by tschroder100@gmail.com | May 3, 2018 | Atheism, Bible, Faith, Jesus, Morality, Politics, The World, Witness
Mikhail Bulgakov (1891-1940) wrote a fantastic satire about life in the Soviet Union that was never able to be published in his lifetime. THE MASTER AND MARGARITA was finally published in 1966 and the 150,000 copies were sold out within hours. Daniel Radcliffe, who...
by tschroder100@gmail.com | Apr 18, 2018 | Aging, Faith, Jesus, Ministry, Witness
Chuck Colson tells about celebrating Easter Sunday in Delaware in 2000. It was a cold, windy morning, more like winter than the beginning of spring. We arrived at the Sussex Correctional Institution just as the day’s first light was filtering through the morning...
by tschroder100@gmail.com | Apr 10, 2018 | Abortion, Aging, Atheism, Bible, Church, Faith, Inspiration, Jesus, Ministry, Movies, Politics, Suffering, The World, Witness
Every Lent I set myself the discipline of reading some meaty spiritual classic. This year I decided to read LOOKING FORWARD 2: Every Next Moment, The Meaning of the Cross, by a longtime friend, Harald K. Haugan, affectionately known as “Whitey”, by his shock of...
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