by tschroder100@gmail.com | Apr 9, 2025 | Aging, Atheism, Bible, Church, Faith, God, Holy Spirit, Inspiration, Jesus, Ministry, Morality, Reading
As I look back on my life I must have been a very idealistic adolescent. While I devoured the usual boy’s comic books such as Eagle, Rover, Classics Illustrated and many others, I also haunted the local public library housed in a Carnegie building and read...
by tschroder100@gmail.com | Apr 5, 2025 | Aging, Church, God
As I approach my 84th birthday I find myself thinking about my past. Recently, when visiting a friend who is older than I he shared his research into his family history. Perhaps it is the characteristic of old age that we look back over the years and are curious about...
by tschroder100@gmail.com | Mar 30, 2025 | Aging, Atheism, Faith, God, Jesus, Morality, Reading
I don’t like surprises. I like to know what is going to happen in my life so that I can adequately prepare for it. Whenever something unexpected happens I get undone by it. When somebody springs something unexpected on me, presents me with an issue or agenda item that...
by tschroder100@gmail.com | Mar 28, 2025 | Aging, Atheism, Faith, God, Morality, Movies, Politics, Reading, Science, Sexuality, Suffering, The World
WE HAVE CEASED TO SEE THE PURPOSE, is the title of ten of the essential speeches of Aleksander Solzhenitsyn, edited by his son Ignat Solzhenitsyn which has just been published by the University of Notre Dame Press. His Nobel Lecture in 1972 focuses on the necessity of...
by tschroder100@gmail.com | Mar 22, 2025 | Bible, Church, Faith, God, Inspiration, Islam, Jesus, Ministry, Morality, Reading, Suffering, The World, Witness, Worship
The message of the cross is foolishness to those who are perishing, but to us who are being saved, it is the power of God…..we preach Christ crucified, a stumbling block and foolishness to non-Christians…For I resolved to know nothing while I was with you except Jesus...
by tschroder100@gmail.com | Mar 19, 2025 | Aging, Faith, God, Holy Spirit, Inspiration, Jesus, Ministry, Prayer, Suffering, Witness
William Willimon, Methodist Bishop and former Dean of the Chapel at Duke University, commented about the message of the Passion Gospel: “In a feel-good, sin-denying, death-avoiding world, this story of evil, of sin, of goodness challenged, of divine love, goes against...
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