by tschroder100@gmail.com | Jun 22, 2017 | Church, Inspiration, Ministry, Politics, Witness, Worship
While on vacation in London I visited the National Portrait Gallery. I was impressed by a series of cartoons of William E. Gladstone, British politician and Prime Minister during Queen Victoria’s reign. The cartoonist showed Gladstone giving speeches in the House of...
by tschroder100@gmail.com | Jun 5, 2017 | Church, Ministry, Witness, Worship
On the Holy Spirit, Basil the Great, Bishop of Caesarea 379 AD. The titles given to the Holy Spirit most surely stir the soul of anyone who hears them, and make one realize that they speak of nothing less than the supreme Being. Is he not called the Spirit of God, the...
by tschroder100@gmail.com | May 31, 2017 | Atheism, Church, Faith, Politics, Prayer, Reading, Suffering, The World
Some years ago I became familiar with the 1980 Nobel prizewinning poet Czeslaw Milosz (1911-2004). I began to collect his books of essays and poems. Recently I read his biography by Andrzej Franaszek edited and translated from the Polish by Aleksandra and Michael...
by tschroder100@gmail.com | May 25, 2017 | Church, Jesus, Ministry, The World, Worship
The Ascension of Jesus – Rembrandt Today is Ascension Day – forty days after the resurrection Jesus ascended to heaven to assume his place in the Godhead, interceding for us and taking our humanity with him (Acts 1:1-11). We are connected to him in the Body of...
by tschroder100@gmail.com | May 17, 2017 | Bible, Church, Faith, Ministry, Politics, Suffering
SPEAKING OF DYING: RECOVERING THE CHURCH’S VOICE IN THE FACE OF DEATH, Fred Craddock, Dale Goldsmith, and Joy V. Goldsmith PREACHING ON DEATH AND DYING Is death a subject appropriate for the pulpit? Should a sermon about death be preached when no one is dead, at...
by tschroder100@gmail.com | May 9, 2017 | Aging, Bible, Church, Faith, Jesus, Ministry, Prayer, Suffering
This is the fourth in the series of summaries from SPEAKING OF DYING: RECOVERING THE CHURCH’S VOICE IN THE FACE OF DEATH, Fred Craddock, Dale Goldsmith, and Joy V. Goldsmith. This from the chapter: WHAT DO YOU SAY TO SOMEONE WHO IS DYING? Where and when do we in the...
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