by tschroder100@gmail.com | Jun 13, 2015 | Aging, Ministry
Since cremation is now becoming more common questions are being raised about its relationship to Christian faith. Cremation was the custom in the Roman society of the first century but by the third century earth burial had replaced cremation as the usual custom. The...
by tschroder100@gmail.com | May 13, 2015 | Aging, Jesus
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 identity, and speaks to us...
by tschroder100@gmail.com | Apr 15, 2015 | Aging, Inspiration, Suffering
How do you handle the down times in your lives, when you get discouraged, and feel that you are less productive, more ineffective, and you don’t seem to achieve your goals, or fulfill your agenda? I have come to believe that there is a certain rhythm to life, as there...
by tschroder100@gmail.com | Mar 21, 2015 | Aging, Islam, Witness
Raymond Lull (1232-1316) was raised in a courtly family in Majorca and pursued a life of in the service of King Kames II of Aragon. He was a prolific poet in the Catalan language until his conversion to Christ in 1263. He devoted his life as a Franciscan missionary...
by tschroder100@gmail.com | Feb 17, 2015 | Aging, Inspiration, Ministry, Witnessing
I was told the other day that old age begins at eighty! If that is so, how should you view the decade before eighty? When he reached his seventieth birthday the great missionary to the Muslim world, Samuel Zwemer gave a talk to the Warfield club at Princeton Seminary...
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