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...
by tschroder100@gmail.com | May 7, 2020 | Faith, God, Healing, Inspiration, Ministry, Politics, Prayer, Suffering, The World, Witness, Worship
The National Day of Prayer is an annual day of observance held on the first Thursday of May, designated by the United States Congress, when people are asked “to turn to God in prayer and meditation”. The president is required by law (36 U.S.C. § 119) to...
by tschroder100@gmail.com | May 4, 2020 | Healing, Inspiration, Jesus, Ministry, Suffering
Jesus renounced the joys of heaven for the sorrows of earth, exchanging an eternal immunity to the approach of sin for painful contact with evil in this world. He was born of a lowly Hebrew mother in a dirty stable in the insignificant village of Bethlehem. He became...
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