by tschroder100@gmail.com | Oct 11, 2024 | Atheism, Bible, Church, Faith, God, Jesus, Ministry, Morality, Movies, Politics, Reading, Science, Sexuality, Suffering, The World, Worship
We visited the Columbia (SC) Museum of Art to view 45 paintings of the Hudson River School of Painters on loan from the New York Historical Society. Antoinette and I also viewed them at an exhibition in the National Gallery in London. The magnificent landscapes of...
by tschroder100@gmail.com | Oct 5, 2024 | Aging, Faith, God, Inspiration, Jesus, Ministry, Movies, Suffering
Psalm 16 is the third psalm used by Handel in Messiah. It is also used in the New Testament book of the Acts of the Apostles by St. Peter (Acts 2) and St. Paul (Acts 13) to present the Gospel to their contemporaries. Why did they use this psalm? Jesus himself used...
by tschroder100@gmail.com | Sep 26, 2024 | Atheism, Bible, Faith, God, Healing, Inspiration, Jesus, Ministry, Prayer, Suffering
On Tuesday, December 6, 2011, Antoinette and I walked past St. James’s Church, Spanish Place, next to our hotel in the West End of London, and noticed that there would be a performance of Handel’s Messiah that evening, by the choir of the Cardinal Vaughan Memorial...
by tschroder100@gmail.com | Sep 20, 2024 | Atheism, God, Healing, Inspiration, Jesus, Ministry, Morality, Prayer, Suffering
Handel uses four psalms in the Messiah. Psalm 22:7,8 is used to describe the religious leaders’ ridicule of Jesus during his agony on the Cross as quoted in the Gospels. “All they that see him laugh him to scorn: they shoot out their lips, and shake their heads,...
by tschroder100@gmail.com | Sep 10, 2024 | Faith, God, Jesus, Ministry, Politics, Reading, Science, Suffering, The World, Witness, Worship
My responsibilities at All Souls Church, Langham Place, London included The Wednesday Club, for people under 35 years of age who were studying or working in business or professions. We met at the Waldegrave Hall, Duke Street in Marylebone and Mayfair connecting...
by tschroder100@gmail.com | Aug 29, 2024 | Church, Faith, God, Ministry
St. Paul’s Cathedral, London In the Spring of 1967 I was approaching the end of my time at Durham University where I was writing a thesis on Politics and the New Testament for my M.A. under the supervision of Charles Cranfield, who wrote a magisterial commentary...
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