by tschroder100@gmail.com | Dec 5, 2019 | Church, Faith, God, Jesus, Prayer, Uncategorized
The Book of Common Prayer, in which I was raised and guided my worship every Sunday, begins the Christian Year with the First Sunday in Advent. The prayer (Collect) for that day to be repeated every day until Christmas Eve is the following: Almighty God, give us grace...
by tschroder100@gmail.com | Nov 20, 2019 | Bible, Church, Faith, God, Morality, Prayer, The World
What is common to the biblical concepts of the holiness and the wrath of God is the truth that they cannot coexist with sin. God’s holiness exposes sin; his wrath opposes it. So sin cannot approach God, and God cannot tolerate sin. Several vivid metaphors are used in...
by tschroder100@gmail.com | Nov 11, 2019 | Atheism, Bible, Church, Faith, God, Jesus, Ministry, Witness
Study of 1 John 4:1-21 4 Dear friends, do not believe every spirit, but test the spirits to see whether they are from God, because many false prophets have gone out into the world. 2 This is how you can recognize the Spirit of God: Every spirit that acknowledges that...
by tschroder100@gmail.com | Oct 27, 2019 | Abortion, Atheism, Bible, Church, God, Jesus, Morality, Sexuality, Witness
Pew Research recently released a study that showed that more than a quarter of the U.S. population don’t identify with any religion – the ‘nones’. That has grown from 17 percent a decade ago. This ‘rise of the nones’ has caused much heart burn among the commentators...
by tschroder100@gmail.com | Oct 14, 2019 | Atheism, Bible, Church, Faith, God, Jesus, Ministry, Morality, The World, Witness
A study of 1 John 2:28-3:10 28 And now, dear children, continue in him, so that when he appears we may be confident and unashamed before him at his coming. 29 If you know that he is righteous, you know that everyone who does what is right has been born of him....
by tschroder100@gmail.com | Oct 8, 2019 | Bible, Church, Faith, Jesus, Ministry, Suffering, Witness
A study of 1 John 2:18-27 18 Dear children, this is the last hour; and as you have heard that the antichrist is coming, even now many antichrists have come. This is how we know it is the last hour. 19 They went out from us, but they did not really belong to us. For...
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