by tschroder100@gmail.com | Dec 19, 2024 | Aging, Faith, God, Jesus, Prayer, Suffering, Worship
Who has not considered Mary And who her praise would dim, But what of humble Joseph Is there no song for him? If Joseph had not driven Straight nails through honest wood If Joseph had not cherished His Mary as he should; If Joseph had not proved him A...
by tschroder100@gmail.com | Dec 18, 2024 | Aging, Faith, God, Islam, Jesus, Politics, Prayer, Suffering, The World, Witness, Worship
Loving Father, now at the climax of this time of waiting I offer you all my longing and hoping. Let the mystery and holiness of your great gift to us, which we celebrate afresh, come upon me as strangely and gloriously as to the shepherds in the fields near Bethlehem....
by tschroder100@gmail.com | Dec 14, 2024 | Atheism, Bible, Faith, God, Jesus, Morality, Science, The World
Stephen Hawking and Leonard Mlodinow in their book, The Grand Design, maintain that God is not required for the existence of the universe. Instead the laws of gravity and quantum theory allow universes to appear spontaneously from nothing. Spontaneous creation is the...
by tschroder100@gmail.com | Dec 6, 2024 | Aging, Faith, God, Holy Spirit, Inspiration, Jesus, Ministry, Politics, Prayer, Reading, Witness
In Leo Tolstoy’s short story, The Death of Ivan Ilych, a successful judge lived a totally conventional life, which he only began to question as he was dying. In the final weeks when he is in great pain and the doctors have admitted their inability to help him, he is...
by tschroder100@gmail.com | Nov 30, 2024 | Abortion, Aging, Atheism, Bible, Faith, God, Holy Spirit, Jesus, Ministry, Morality, Movies, Reading, Science
The other day I came upon the “age-old ego-stripping questions of place (Where am I?), origin (Where did I come from?), destiny (Where am I going?), identity (Who am I?), and purpose (Why am I?)”. These five questions cause us to reflect on the meaning of our lives in...
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