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I now have an author page on Amazon.com. You can access it at https://www.amazon.com/author/tedschroder. This enables you to locate all my books – I find it hard to believe that there are eleven of them. My first was INWARD LIGHT which was published in 2003. It is now...
What Does It Take To Survive and Thrive in Ministry?
Bob Burns has written a post in The Gospel Coalition Blog that is worth posting here. What does it take for pastors to survive and thrive in ministry? This was the key question asked in an eight-year study funded by the Lilly Endowment that I had the privilege to...
An Example of Mindless Californian Bigotry and Persecution
Antoinette and I belonged to the Intervarsity Christian Fellowship when we were in college. Last night we listened to Alec Hill, the President of Intervarsity USA speaking at a conference on Amelia Island. He shared about the problems Intervarsity was experiencing in...
A Prayer for Old Age
Eric Milner-White (1884-1963), a distinguished clergyman of the Church of England wrote a book of prayers, My God, My Glory, which is a favorite of mine. It contains the revised versions of the original prayers of his heart. Many of them were written during wakeful...
What is Courage?
God did not give us a spirit of timidity, but a spirit of power, of love and of self-discipline. (2 Timothy 1:7) Be strong and courageous. Do not be terrified; do not be discouraged, for the LORD your God will be with you wherever you go. (Joshua 1:9) “Courage is the...
Prayer in Time of Peril
On the anniversary of September 11 the following prayer may be appropriate. Almighty God, Lord of all peoples and nations on the earth, whose power no one is able to resist. Protect, save and deliver us, we humbly pray, from the hands of our enemies; Halt their...
Those Cajuns are Different – It Aint All Over Until??????
Jacob Gershman in the Wall Street Journal today reports on the Louisiana same-sex marriage ruling. A U.S. district judge on Wednesday upheld Louisiana’s ban on same-sex marriage, breaking with the vast majority of federal courts on a constitutional question likely to...
How Do We Prevent Abuse of Power and Destruction of our Traditions?
Edmund Burke (1729-1797) was a British statesman whose opposition to the abuse of power led him to author several works of political philosophy whose influence is still being felt. Jesse Norman has written a helpful biography entitled, Edmund Burke: The First...
Is It Only Winning That Counts?
Bill Weimer is my brother-in-law and a retired US Navy Chaplain and Pastor. This is his Movie Review of “WHEN THE GAME STANDS TALL” My Quick Comments: “Highly Recommended – I loved it, maybe even better than the movie “Blind Side”! “If you like sports…...
What About the Children of Same-Sex Marriages?
What about the children? Children are the most vulnerable members of our society. They deserve the highest degree of protection from abuse or neglect. In recent arguments in the courts justices have cited concern for children when they have ruled in favor of same-sex...
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