by tschroder100@gmail.com | Apr 8, 2022 | Jesus, Morality, Prayer, Sexuality, Suffering, Witness
Jesus said, “If any man would come after me, let him deny himself and take up his cross and follow me” (Mark 8:34). This is Jesus’s figure of speech for self-denial. Every disciple of Jesus is to ‘behave like a condemned criminal and carry his cross to the place of...
by tschroder100@gmail.com | Apr 7, 2022 | Faith, Jesus
What does it mean to follow Christ, to be his disciple? Jesus spent three years teaching his disciples what it meant to follow him. A disciple is a learner, and there is much to learn about being a Christian. Christianity is not just an intellectual system, not a...
by tschroder100@gmail.com | Mar 30, 2022 | Bible, Church, Faith, God, Holy Spirit, Jesus, Suffering, The World, Uncategorized, Witness
Evangelism relates to people’s eternal destiny, and in bringing them good news of salvation, Christians are doing what nobody else can do. Seldom if ever should we have to choose between…healing bodies and saving souls…Nevertheless, if we must choose, then we have to...
by tschroder100@gmail.com | Mar 28, 2022 | Bible, Church, Faith, God, Holy Spirit, Jesus, Ministry, The World, Witness
What is the mission of the church? What is its purpose? Why does it exist? The church itself was seen in the Epistles to be God’s new society, the new community, the new creation of God. The very existence of the church, with the new life its members were living, was...
by tschroder100@gmail.com | Mar 27, 2022 | Bible, Church, Faith, God, Holy Spirit, Jesus, Ministry, The World, Witness
Our mission is described in the Acts of the Apostles as establishing the Kingdom of the Spirit of Jesus. First of all, there is The Promise of the Spirit in Acts 1. The main topics of our Lord’s instruction during the forty days between his resurrection and his...
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