by tschroder100@gmail.com | Aug 4, 2020 | Faith, God, Jesus, Prayer, Suffering, The World, Worship
In the upper room during his last supper before his crucifixion Jesus promised his disciples, “You may ask me anything in my name, and I will do it.” (John 14:14) Yet often it appears that our prayers are unanswered. Where can we find encouragement to pray? How do we...
by tschroder100@gmail.com | Jul 29, 2020 | Bible, Faith, God, Inspiration, Jesus, Politics, Prayer, Suffering, The World
In his Inaugural Address in 1933, President Franklin Delano Roosevelt delivered his oft-quoted words: “Let me assert my firm belief that the only thing we have to fear is fear itself.” Zygmunt Bauman, one of the foremost social thinkers of our time, writes, Fear is at...
by tschroder100@gmail.com | Jul 25, 2020 | Aging, Bible, Church, Faith, God, Healing, Inspiration, Jesus, Ministry, Suffering
An exposition of Revelation 7. Nobody knows the trouble I’ve seen Nobody knows my sorrow Nobody knows my trouble but Jesus Glory Hallelujah! Sometimes I’m up, sometimes I’m down Oh, yes, Lord Sometimes I’m almost to the ground Oh, yes, Lord Although you see me...
by tschroder100@gmail.com | Jul 22, 2020 | Abortion, Aging, Bible, Church, Faith, God, Jesus, Morality, Politics, Suffering, The World
During the past couple of months I have been studying Dante’s Divine Comedy. It is composed of three books: Inferno, Purgatorio and Paradisio in Italian and Hell, Purgatory and Heaven in English. Dorothy Sayers has been my guide in the Penguin Classics series. She...
by tschroder100@gmail.com | Jul 20, 2020 | Atheism, Bible, Faith, God, Inspiration, Jesus, Morality, Politics, Suffering, The World
An exposition of Revelation 6: the four horsemen. Each of us has our own story about human suffering. Whether it is about ourselves, or a loved one, or the tragedies we read about in newspapers or on television, or in the history books, there is plenty of suffering in...
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