by tschroder100@gmail.com | Feb 26, 2020 | Church, Faith, God, Healing, Ministry, Morality, Politics, Prayer, Suffering, The World, Worship
On November 14, 1940, a German air-raid passed over the center of England. The medieval cathedral of Coventry was left a burnt-out shell. In 1962 a new cathedral was consecrated which I visited a couple of years later. It is strikingly beautiful with its Sutherland...
by tschroder100@gmail.com | Jan 13, 2020 | Bible, Faith, God, Healing, Jesus, Ministry, Morality, Suffering, The World
If we are to know any comfort in our suffering and find strength to bear it in a truly Christian manner, we must first set ourselves to understand it as well as is humanly possible. We must have a thorough grasp of what the Scriptures teach about evil, for evil is the...
by tschroder100@gmail.com | Jan 10, 2020 | Faith, God, Healing, Inspiration, Suffering
Margaret Clarkson (1915-2008), prolific hymn writer, teacher and author was born with chronic headaches and juvenile arthritis which caused her much pain. A second arthritic attack when she was twelve settled in one arm, leaving her wrist and hand swollen and partly...
by tschroder100@gmail.com | Jul 15, 2019 | Faith, Healing, Jesus, Suffering
When Job’s three friends…heard about all the troubles that had come upon him, they set out from their homes and met together by agreement to go and sympathize with him and comfort him. When they saw him from a distance, they could hardly recognize him; they began to...
by tschroder100@gmail.com | Jul 9, 2019 | Aging, Faith, God, Healing, Jesus, Prayer, Suffering
Job was a man who was described as blameless and upright; he feared God and shunned evil. Yet a combination of natural disaster and human depravity devastated his life. The Sabeans attacked and carried off his livestock. Lightning burned up his sheep. Chaldeans...
by tschroder100@gmail.com | Jul 2, 2019 | Aging, Faith, God, Healing, Inspiration, Jesus, Prayer, Suffering
Love always hopes (1 Corinthians 13:7) because love sees possibilities where none seems to exist. Love always hopes because love never despairs. Love is not dependent on the fulfillment of immediate expectations. Love takes the long term point of view. Love will not...
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