by tschroder100@gmail.com | Sep 20, 2018 | Aging, Bible, Faith, Inspiration, Jesus, Suffering
How good are you at waiting? I am not good at it at all. Patience is both the fruit of the Spirit and an aspect of love. It does not come naturally to us. We are impatient creatures. The younger you are the more impatient you are. But even as we age we have difficulty...
by tschroder100@gmail.com | Sep 15, 2018 | Aging, Atheism, Bible, Faith, Jesus
How we view and experience the character of God determines our own spiritual health. All too often we craft God in our own image – of what we want God to be for us. Or we reject the image of God that has been modeled to us by the culture and the authority figures in...
by tschroder100@gmail.com | Aug 25, 2018 | Aging, Atheism, Bible, Church, Faith, Jesus
It would take a whole book to give you the reasons why I believe in Jesus Christ and follow him as my Savior and Lord. Those reasons have been accumulating over a lifetime. Some of them have been discarded or changed as I have grown older. Others are newer as I have...
by tschroder100@gmail.com | Jul 29, 2018 | Aging, Bible, Church, Faith, Jesus, Ministry, Politics, Prayer, Suffering, The World, Witness
Icon of St. George slaying the dragon This is Paul’s peroration in Romans 8: the concluding part of a speech in which there is a summing up and emphatic recapitulation. “What, then, shall we say in response to this?” (Romans 8:31) St. Paul has been arguing that...
by tschroder100@gmail.com | Jul 18, 2018 | Aging, Morality
Marcus Tullius Cicero (106-43 BC), the Roman statesman and philosopher was once asked to address the subject of old age. He had no time for those who complained about their old age. Their fault was one of character, not of years. “Old men who exercise self-discipline,...
by tschroder100@gmail.com | Jul 8, 2018 | Abortion, Aging, Atheism, Bible, Faith, Jesus, Politics, Suffering, The World
One of the most difficult challenges to faith is to be found in the suffering of the world. Skeptics ask, “How can a good God permit such terrible suffering? If he is good and powerful he would prevent it. If he doesn’t prevent such suffering he is either not good, or...
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