by tschroder100@gmail.com | Apr 12, 2022 | Aging, Bible, Church, Faith, God, Holy Spirit, Jesus, Ministry, Prayer, Suffering, Witness, Worship
It was on Holy Thursday (AKA Maundy Thursday) of his last week that Jesus instituted his Lord’s Supper which has also become known as Holy Communion, the Eucharist or the Mass. It was his replacement of the Passover which was celebrated annually to remind the...
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...
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