by tschroder100@gmail.com | Nov 5, 2017 | Bible, Church, Faith, Inspiration, Suffering, Witness
Hebrews 11 lists the heroes of the faith. On All Saints’ Sunday we remember the Communion of Saints who have preceded us. They were all commended for their faith. They are witnesses to us of God’s faithfulness. We look to them for encouragement and inspiration. The...
by tschroder100@gmail.com | Oct 26, 2017 | Bible, Church, Faith, Jesus, Ministry, Witness, Worship
Five hundred years ago on the eve of All Saints’ Day, October 31, 1517, Martin Luther, an Augustinian monk from the University of Wittenberg in Germany nailed his 95 Theses to the door of the college church proposing a discussion of the theology of indulgences. He...
by tschroder100@gmail.com | Oct 10, 2017 | Bible, Church, Inspiration, Jesus, Ministry, Politics, Prayer, Witness, Worship
Recently I reread Dallas Willard’s THE SPIRIT OF THE DISCIPLINES which refers to the spiritual disciplines of the Christian Life: solitude, silence, fasting, frugality, chastity, secrecy, sacrifice, study, worship, celebration, service, prayer, fellowship, confession...
by tschroder100@gmail.com | Sep 21, 2017 | Bible, Church, Faith, Jesus, Morality, Suffering, Witness
Portrait of American orator, editor, author, abolitionist and former slave Frederick Douglass (1818 – 1895), 1850s. Engraving by A. H. Ritchie. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images) During the summer the news was full of the controversy over the Confederacy and...
by tschroder100@gmail.com | Aug 9, 2017 | Bible, Church, Inspiration, Jesus, Ministry, Reading, Witness
During the summer I have been working on gathering together my unpublished material to put in a book to commemorate the 50th anniversary of my ordination to the ministry. I was ordained at St. Paul’s Cathedral, London on September 29, 1967, the Feast of St. Michael...
by tschroder100@gmail.com | Jun 28, 2017 | Atheism, Faith, Islam, Jesus, Morality, Politics, Science, Sexuality, Witness
Karl Marx I have become more convinced that the greatest threat to Christianity in the West is not Islam but atheism. More and more younger people are responding to censuses as “No Religion” or “Nones”. They have naively absorbed the secular teaching of the...
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