by tschroder100@gmail.com | Oct 10, 2018 | Bible, Church, Faith, Jesus, Worship
THE PLAINS OF HEAVEN, John Martin When Jesus instructed the disciples to pray to “Our Father in heaven”, (Matthew 6:9) he was introducing a new way of approaching God. We are to speak to God as little children to a parent who loves and cares for us, and who, at the...
by tschroder100@gmail.com | Oct 3, 2018 | Bible, Church, Faith, Jesus, Prayer, Sexuality
Jesus said, “This is how you should pray: ‘Our Father’. (Matthew 6:9) Our very familiarity with the Lord’s Prayer, and Christianity, dulls our awareness of the unique relationship that Jesus made possible. To say “Our Father” is to claim membership in a family that...
by tschroder100@gmail.com | Sep 28, 2018 | Bible, Church, Jesus, Ministry, Morality, Politics, Suffering, The World, Witness
September 29 in the Christian Calendar is St. Michael and All Angels Day. It marks the beginning of the academic year in the United Kingdom with Michaelmas Term. It will always be a special day for me because on that day in 1967 I was ordained to the Christian...
by tschroder100@gmail.com | Aug 25, 2018 | Aging, Atheism, Bible, Church, Faith, Jesus
It would take a whole book to give you the reasons why I believe in Jesus Christ and follow him as my Savior and Lord. Those reasons have been accumulating over a lifetime. Some of them have been discarded or changed as I have grown older. Others are newer as I have...
by tschroder100@gmail.com | Aug 22, 2018 | Church, Jesus, Ministry, Morality, Sexuality
The release of a grand jury report on the Roman Catholic clergy sexual abuse over many years in Pennsylvania prompts me to post this diagnosis which I shared three years ago. The question to be asked is why bishops, and others in the world-wide Roman Catholic...
by tschroder100@gmail.com | Aug 16, 2018 | Bible, Church, Faith, Jesus, Ministry, Witness
ALL SAINTS ANGLICAN CHURCH, HOKITIKA, NEW ZEALAND In August 1964 I was preparing to leave home to travel to Durham University, England for my theological education. You can imagine that it was a great adventure for a twenty three year old to leave all his friends and...
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