by tschroder100@gmail.com | Jul 6, 2020 | Bible, Church, Faith, God, Healing, Jesus, Morality, Politics, Suffering, The World, Witness
All forms of racial discrimination are an evil. No biblical Christian can be a racist. Paul in his speech to the Athenian Areopagus made that plain (Acts 17:22-31). The Athenians were racists, proud of their racial superiority. Greeks despised non-Greeks as ignorant...
by tschroder100@gmail.com | Jul 1, 2020 | Faith, God, Healing, Inspiration, Morality, Politics, The World
On April 4, 1865 President Abraham Lincoln visited Richmond, Virginia after it had fallen to the Union forces. He encountered a sullen white population seething with resentment. He stepped out of his rowboat onto the riverbank. There was no reception committee but one...
by tschroder100@gmail.com | Jun 25, 2020 | Bible, Faith, God, Healing, Jesus, Morality, Politics, Suffering, The World
Now and again I wake up in the night remembering people who have let me down, made life difficult, cost me money, hurt my feelings, injured my pride, failed to do the right thing. It is hard to get back to sleep as the memories come flooding back of all those...
by tschroder100@gmail.com | Jun 22, 2020 | Bible, Church, Faith, God, Healing, Holy Spirit, Jesus, Ministry, Morality, Politics, Prayer, Suffering, The World, Witness
Jesus said, “Blessed are the peacemakers, for they will be called sons of God.” (NIV) “You are blessed when you can show people how to cooperate instead of compete or fight. That’s when you discover who you really are, and your place in God’s family.” (The Message)...
by tschroder100@gmail.com | Jun 15, 2020 | Faith, God, Healing, Inspiration, Morality, Politics, Prayer, The World
Ted Widmer (Distinguished Lecturer at Macaulay Honors College of the City University of New York) has written a fascinating book entitled Lincoln on the Verge, Thirteen Days to Washington. It chronicles the newly elected Abraham Lincoln’s railroad journey from...
by tschroder100@gmail.com | Jun 10, 2020 | Bible, Healing, Jesus, Ministry, Politics, Suffering, Witness
When Jesus commands us to love our neighbors as ourselves, and illustrates it by telling the parable of the Good Samaritan, he is saying that we are to love everybody according to their need. There are no exceptions to this command. In contrast to romantic love or...
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