by tschroder100@gmail.com | Apr 24, 2018 | Aging, Bible, Faith, Healing, Inspiration, Jesus, Ministry, Prayer, Suffering
In 1984 Reynolds Price, professor of English at Duke University, began a four year battle with spinal cancer. After surgery to remove the tumor, and a series of radiation treatments, he was left with searing pain and lost the use of his legs. For four years he...
by tschroder100@gmail.com | Apr 18, 2018 | Aging, Faith, Jesus, Ministry, Witness
Chuck Colson tells about celebrating Easter Sunday in Delaware in 2000. It was a cold, windy morning, more like winter than the beginning of spring. We arrived at the Sussex Correctional Institution just as the day’s first light was filtering through the morning...
by tschroder100@gmail.com | Apr 10, 2018 | Abortion, Aging, Atheism, Bible, Church, Faith, Inspiration, Jesus, Ministry, Movies, Politics, Suffering, The World, Witness
Every Lent I set myself the discipline of reading some meaty spiritual classic. This year I decided to read LOOKING FORWARD 2: Every Next Moment, The Meaning of the Cross, by a longtime friend, Harald K. Haugan, affectionately known as “Whitey”, by his shock of...
by tschroder100@gmail.com | Apr 1, 2018 | Aging, Faith, 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...
by tschroder100@gmail.com | Mar 24, 2018 | Aging, Faith, Healing, Jesus, Ministry, Prayer, Science, Suffering
One of the greatest temptations facing us today is depression. We can get depressed very easily from unrealistic expectations, disappointed hopes, stress, overwork, not enough rest, sickness, physical disability, post-traumatic stress, inability to solve problems,...
by tschroder100@gmail.com | Mar 8, 2018 | Aging, Healing, Inspiration, Prayer, Reading
One of my favorite childhood poems which we had to memorize in school is LEISURE by W.H. Davies (1871-1940). Having lived a busy, goal-oriented life, the concept of leisure was always suspect. I always felt guilty if I found time on my hands. As I contemplate...
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