by tschroder100@gmail.com | Aug 2, 2021 | Faith, God, Jesus, Ministry, Morality, Politics, Science, Sexuality, Suffering, The World, Witness
I am trying to avoid paying much attention to the news as it is uniformly negative and obsessed with certain political and medical topics. All too often it is slanted and sensationalistic. Most of us go about our daily lives concerned with our immediate wellbeing and...
by tschroder100@gmail.com | Jul 22, 2021 | Church, Faith, Healing, Jesus, Ministry, Suffering, The World, Witness, Worship
“Let’s see how inventive we can be in encouraging love and helping out, not avoiding worshiping together as some do but spurring each other on, especially as we see the big Day approaching.” (Hebrews 10:24,25, The Message) One of the casualties of the pandemic has...
by tschroder100@gmail.com | Jul 16, 2021 | Aging, Faith, God, Jesus
There remains a Sabbath-rest for the people of God; for anyone who enters God’s rest also rests from his own work, just as God did from his. Let us, therefore, make every effort to enter that rest (Hebrews 4:1-11). Helmut Thielicke (1908-1986) wrote: I often think...
by tschroder100@gmail.com | Jul 14, 2021 | Aging, Atheism, Bible, Faith, God, Jesus, Ministry, Morality, Politics, Reading, Sexuality, The World, Witness
God created man in his own image, in the image of God he created him; male and female he created them. God blessed them and said to them, ‘Be fruitful and increase in number; fill the earth and subdue it. Rule over the fish of the sea and the birds of the air and over...
by tschroder100@gmail.com | Jul 11, 2021 | Abortion, Aging, Atheism, Bible, Faith, God, Jesus, Ministry, Morality, Politics, Science, Sexuality, Suffering, The World
The importance of human identity is constantly in the news. We are supposedly defined by our race, our gender, our sexual preference, our past, our abilities and our opportunities instead of by “the content of our character” (Martin Luther King Jr.). We are being...
by tschroder100@gmail.com | Jul 8, 2021 | Atheism, Bible, Faith, God, Jesus, Morality, Movies, Politics, Reading, Science, Sexuality, Suffering, The World
When my grandson and I were working on a jigsaw puzzle I discovered that he was more adept than I in finding the pieces we were looking for to complete a section. I was wishing that the pieces were larger. I could see the big picture but found it hard to see which...
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