by tschroder100@gmail.com | Jul 2, 2019 | Aging, Faith, God, Healing, Inspiration, Jesus, Prayer, Suffering
Love always hopes (1 Corinthians 13:7) because love sees possibilities where none seems to exist. Love always hopes because love never despairs. Love is not dependent on the fulfillment of immediate expectations. Love takes the long term point of view. Love will not...
by tschroder100@gmail.com | Jun 28, 2019 | Aging, Faith, God, Inspiration, Jesus, Science, Suffering, Witness
I have recently read the two volume letters and memories of Charles Kingsley (1819-1875) published in 1890. Kingsley was an Anglican clergyman who wrote the popular novels Westward Ho, and Water Babies, was an accomplished naturalist, a professor of Modern History at...
by tschroder100@gmail.com | Jun 25, 2019 | Aging, Faith, God, Healing, Inspiration, Jesus, Prayer, Suffering
New York Times writer David Brooks, began his book The Road to Character by contrasting résumé virtues and eulogy virtues. The résumé virtues are the ones you list on your résumé that contribute to external success. The eulogy virtues are deeper. They are the virtues...
by tschroder100@gmail.com | May 30, 2019 | Aging, Bible, Church, Faith, Inspiration, Jesus, Ministry
The Ascension: Rembrandt The Ascension of Jesus is celebrated on the 40th day after Easter Sunday (Acts 1:4). Because it is always a Thursday it tends to be overlooked and neglected. Yet the Ascension of Jesus is the culmination of his earthly life. It confirms his...
by tschroder100@gmail.com | May 15, 2019 | Aging, Atheism, Bible, Faith, Healing, Jesus, Ministry, Morality, Prayer, Suffering, The World
I have increasingly become aware of how many parents agonize over the problems their children experience. They are called upon, even in old age, when their children are supposed to be responsible adults living on their own, to help them out of problems of their own...
by tschroder100@gmail.com | Apr 20, 2019 | Aging, Atheism, Bible, Church, Faith, Inspiration, Jesus, Witness
When I was eleven years old my grandmother died suddenly at the age of fifty nine. Her death was shock to me. I could not understand how a person so vibrant and alive one moment could be gone the next. I can remember seeing her laid out in her coffin in her bedroom...
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