by tschroder100@gmail.com | Dec 27, 2025 | Aging, Bible, Faith, God, Inspiration, Jesus, Ministry, Morality, Prayer, Reading, Witness, Worship
This past year I have been reading a number of books on aging to gain some wisdom on this stage of my life. Some are personal memoirs and others are somewhat academic. Many are representatives of their eras and some are dated. However the most accessible and...
by tschroder100@gmail.com | Dec 23, 2025 | Church, Faith, God, Jesus, Worship
My first twenty-three Christmases were spent in my home in New Zealand where it was the middle of summer. In 1964 I sailed to England to study Theology at the University of Durham. For the first time I was feeling homesick and lonely. My first Christmas away from home...
by tschroder100@gmail.com | Dec 13, 2025 | Abortion, Aging, Bible, Faith, God, Healing, Jesus, Ministry, Reading, Science, Worship
I have been writing about The Four Last Things: the traditional subjects of the four Sundays in Advent – Death, Judgment, Heaven and Hell. The third of the four last things is the theme of Heaven. St. John receives a vision in Revelation 21 that assures him that the...
by tschroder100@gmail.com | Dec 5, 2025 | Aging, Atheism, Bible, Church, Faith, God, Holy Spirit, Jesus, Ministry, Morality, Sexuality, Suffering, The World, Witness, Worship
The Advent Prayer; Almighty God, give us grace to cast away the works of darkness and put on the armor of light, now in the time of this mortal life, in which your Son Jesus Christ came to us in great humility; so that, at the last day, when he shall come again in his...
by tschroder100@gmail.com | Dec 5, 2025 | Church, Faith, God, Holy Spirit, Jesus, Ministry, Morality, Prayer, Witness, Worship
In 1978 I became Rector (Pastor) of Grace Church, Orange Park, Florida, a suburb of Jacksonville and moved there with my wife Antoinette and my two daughters, Carrie(4) and Amelia(1). The church members were local and Jacksonville professional and business leaders and...
by tschroder100@gmail.com | Nov 29, 2025 | Aging, Bible, Church, Faith, God, Jesus, Ministry, Prayer, Worship
The four last things that are traditionally subjects of the four Sundays in Advent are Death, Judgment, Heaven and Hell. John Stott dealt with each of these subjects in his writings. The ‘last things’ (death, the Parousia, the resurrection, the last judgement and the...
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