by tschroder100@gmail.com | Jul 11, 2021 | Abortion, Aging, Atheism, Bible, Faith, God, Jesus, Ministry, Morality, Politics, Science, Sexuality, Suffering, The World
The importance of human identity is constantly in the news. We are supposedly defined by our race, our gender, our sexual preference, our past, our abilities and our opportunities instead of by “the content of our character” (Martin Luther King Jr.). We are being...
by tschroder100@gmail.com | Jul 2, 2021 | Abortion, Aging, Atheism, Bible, Faith, God, Jesus, Morality, Politics, 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 | Jun 23, 2021 | Abortion, Aging, Atheism, Bible, Faith, God, Jesus, Science, Suffering
One of the most frequent questions I get from strangers is, “Where are you from?” They detect that my accent is different from theirs. I have lived in the USA from 1971 and yet I still have a problem with “r’s”, and my “a’s” and “i’s” are similar. What an...
by tschroder100@gmail.com | May 18, 2021 | Abortion, Atheism, Bible, Church, Faith, God, Jesus, Morality, Politics, Sexuality, Suffering, The World, Witness
Jesus is arrested, handcuffed and dragged before Annas, the retired high priest who interrogated him about his disciples and his teaching. He replied, “I have spoken openly to the world. I always taught in synagogues or at the temple, publicly. I said nothing in...
by tschroder100@gmail.com | May 13, 2021 | Abortion, Bible, Church, Faith, God, Jesus, Ministry, Morality, Politics, Sexuality, Suffering, Witness
Jesus said, “You’re blessed when your commitment to God provokes persecution. The persecution drives you even deeper into God’s kingdom. Not only that – count yourself blessed every time people put you down or throw you out or speak lies against you to discredit me....
by tschroder100@gmail.com | Apr 30, 2021 | Abortion, Atheism, Bible, God, Jesus, Ministry, Morality, Politics, Suffering, The World
A friend asked me to explain 1 Samuel 18:10 which states that an evil spirit from God came on King Saul. How can this be if only good comes from God? But it is not quite accurate to say that only good comes from God, for while God’s original creation was declared to...
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