by tschroder100@gmail.com | Apr 23, 2021 | Aging, Bible, Faith, God, Jesus, Science, Suffering, The World
The Christian hope focuses not only on our individual future (the resurrection of the body) but also on our cosmic future (the renewal of the universe). On the whole Christians tend to think and talk too much of an ethereal heaven and too little about the new heaven...
by tschroder100@gmail.com | Apr 19, 2021 | Abortion, Aging, Atheism, Bible, Church, Faith, God, Jesus, Ministry, Morality, Politics, Science, Suffering, The World, Witness, Worship
Your life matters – your life is valuable. Whatever your circumstances, whether you are royalty or commoner, prince or pauper. At the end of St Paul’s magnificent exposition of the truth and reality of the Resurrection in 1 Corinthians 15, after he has presented the...
by tschroder100@gmail.com | Apr 16, 2021 | Aging, Faith, God, Jesus, Ministry, Prayer, Suffering, The World, Witness
THE LOCKED DOOR “On the evening of that first day of the week, when the disciples were together, with the doors locked for fear of the Jews, Jesus came and stood among them and said, ‘Peace be with you!’ After he said this, he showed them his hands and side. The...
by tschroder100@gmail.com | Apr 7, 2021 | Aging, Politics, Reading, Science, Suffering
During the last year I have been convinced that the media obsession with COVID-19 and governmental attempts to mitigate it by lockdowns have been driven by hysteria and fear of death which, as a Christian, I reject as unreasonable and damaging. It has been encouraging...
by tschroder100@gmail.com | Mar 25, 2021 | Aging, Faith, Jesus, Suffering, The World, Witness
“Jesus began to explain to his disciples that he must go to Jerusalem and suffer many things at the hands of the elders, chief priests and teachers of the law, and that he must be killed and on the third day be raised to life.” (Matthew 16:21) William Willimon,...
by tschroder100@gmail.com | Mar 20, 2021 | Aging, Faith, God, Healing, Jesus, Politics, Prayer, Suffering, The World
If Christ came that we might have life in all its fullness (John 10:10), and our faith in him can make us whole (Mark 5:34; Luke 17:19), how is it that we experience sadness, emotional pain, frustration and unhappiness? Why is it that we have divisions between one...
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