by tschroder100@gmail.com | Feb 5, 2024 | Aging, Bible, Church, Faith, God, Healing, Holy Spirit, Jesus, Ministry, Movies, Prayer, Reading, Science, Suffering
Robert De Niro played a gangster in the movie Analyze This, who started suffering from anxiety attacks. He gets dizzy, short of breath, hyperventilates and thinks he is having a heart attack. It is hard for him to accept the diagnosis that he, a macho mafia-type,...
by tschroder100@gmail.com | Jan 28, 2024 | Faith, God, Healing, Jesus, Prayer
How does the Gospel address the central issue of anxiety? What does the Word of God have to say about this aspect of the human condition? Archibald Hart, in Overcoming Anxiety, believes we have many different forms of anxiety. There is worry anxiety, which is...
by tschroder100@gmail.com | Jan 26, 2024 | Aging, Faith, God, Jesus, Morality, Politics, Reading, Suffering, The World
I have always had a problem with calling worry a sin. It seems to me that it is natural and normal to want to take care of my basic needs – that it is common sense to take thought for the future. I was raised to be responsible, and to prepare for a rainy day. My...
by tschroder100@gmail.com | Jan 9, 2024 | Abortion, Aging, Bible, Church, Ministry, Morality, Politics, Prayer, Sexuality, Suffering, Witness, Worship
Chuck Lawless posted on his blog some challenging reasons some folk don’t listen to preaching or teaching in church (Jan.8,2024). They include 1. Distraction: something else was going on in their head – like worries, concerns, exciting plans etc. 2. Fatigue: being...
by tschroder100@gmail.com | Dec 27, 2023 | Aging, Faith, God, Jesus, Ministry, Morality, Movies, Prayer, Reading, Suffering
James Barrie first produced his wildly successful play, Peter Pan, in 1904. The movie, Finding Neverland, starring Johnny Depp, Kate Winslet, Dustin Hoffman and Julie Christie, explored the inspiration of the play in Barrie’s relationship to the Llewelyn-Davies...
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