by tschroder100@gmail.com | Sep 24, 2022 | Atheism, Bible, Church, Faith, God, Holy Spirit, Inspiration, Jesus, Ministry, Morality, Politics, Reading, Science, Sexuality, Suffering, The World, Witness, Worship
Enlightenment thinkers in the eighteenth century understood the world through the lens of experimental science. Believing that all phenomena operated according to universal natural laws, they judged every intellectual proposition according to the test of reason. Their...
by tschroder100@gmail.com | Sep 21, 2022 | Atheism, Bible, Church, Faith, God, Jesus, Ministry, Morality, Science, Suffering, The World, Witness
In answer to those who questioned his credentials, and the source of his teaching, Jesus claimed that it came from God who sent him. But how do we know that this is the truth? Jesus said, “If anyone chooses to do God’s will, he will find out whether my teaching comes...
by tschroder100@gmail.com | Sep 14, 2022 | Aging, Bible, Church, Faith, God, Jesus, Ministry, Politics, Witness, Worship
“Blessed are those who mourn, for they will be comforted.” (Matthew 5:4) The National Days of Mourning in the United Kingdom for the death of Queen Elizabeth II as covered on television are a salutary reminder of the need for a solemn period of grieving on the death...
by tschroder100@gmail.com | Sep 9, 2022 | Church, Faith, God, Holy Spirit, Jesus, Ministry, Morality, Politics, Prayer, The World, Witness
In the Book of Common Prayer (BCP) of the Church of England there is an Accession Service to be used on the anniversary day of the accession of the new sovereign. In the various copies of the BCP in my library the sovereigns mentioned are Charles II, William IV,...
by tschroder100@gmail.com | Sep 4, 2022 | Bible, Church, Faith, God, Inspiration, Ministry, Prayer
Jon Guttman, in his Editorial for the June, 2002 edition of Military History, wrote about three decisive battles that owed their outcomes to calculated risk-taking. He says that officers today are taught risk assessment – the art of comparing the importance of one’s...
by tschroder100@gmail.com | Aug 28, 2022 | Abortion, Atheism, Church, Faith, God, Jesus, Ministry, Morality, Politics, Suffering, The World, Witness, Worship
I have been reading Soren Kierkegaard’s “Practice in Christianity” and commentaries about it. He wrote it in 1849 as a critique of how Christianity was presented in the Church of Denmark. In particular he criticized the preaching of his bishop who influenced a...
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