by tschroder100@gmail.com | Nov 9, 2020 | Church, Faith, God, Jesus, Ministry, Politics, The World, Witness, Worship
There is so much hostility in the world between political parties, identity groups and within families. People are divided. Ever since Adam blamed Eve, and Cain was jealous of his brother Abel and murdered him, fallen humanity has been seeking peace. The only hope for...
by tschroder100@gmail.com | Nov 2, 2020 | Aging, Bible, Church, Faith, God, Jesus, Ministry, Suffering, Witness
November 2nd is celebrated as All Souls’ Day when Christians commemorate all the Faithful Departed, holding their lives in our memory. In the Mexican culture it is known as the Day of the Dead, when families take the day off to picnic at the graves of their families...
by tschroder100@gmail.com | Oct 29, 2020 | Aging, Atheism, Bible, Church, Faith, God, Jesus, Ministry, Suffering
Jonathan Swift in Gulliver’s Travels invented the immortal Stuldbrugs of the flying island of Laputa. Gulliver supposed they would be wise, serene and knowledgeable because of their great age, and instead found them the most miserable of creatures, excruciatingly...
by tschroder100@gmail.com | Oct 18, 2020 | Aging, Atheism, Bible, Church, Faith, God, Holy Spirit, Jesus, Morality, Suffering, Witness
I have in my library a signed first edition of The Message of Galatians by John Stott, which he gave me for my birthday in 1970 (50 years ago). It contains twenty sermons he preached on Galatians in 1965-66. His book on preaching was published under the title Between...
by tschroder100@gmail.com | Sep 30, 2020 | Aging, Atheism, Bible, Church, Faith, God, Jesus, Ministry, Morality, Politics, Prayer, Suffering, The World
The Course of Empire: Desolation, Thomas Cole (1801-1848). In 2012 I visited the Columbia, South Carolina Museum of Art to view 45 paintings of the Hudson River School of Painters on loan from the New York Historical Society. The magnificent landscapes of Thomas Cole,...
by tschroder100@gmail.com | Sep 21, 2020 | Aging, Bible, Church, Faith, God, Healing, Inspiration, Jesus, Prayer, Reading, Suffering, The World, Worship
On Tuesday, December 6, 2011, Antoinette and I walked past St. James’s Church, Spanish Place, next to our hotel in the West End of London, and noticed that there would be a performance of Handel’s Messiah that evening, by the choir of the Cardinal Vaughan Memorial...
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