by tschroder100@gmail.com | Jul 7, 2015 | Aging, Healing
A letter to the editor of our local daily newspaper begins with this question: “What if God, creator of the universe and each individual in it, loves us just the way we are?” Sounds reasonable doesn’t it? Sounds loving and accepting doesn’t it? But if that is so then...
by tschroder100@gmail.com | May 12, 2015 | Healing, Jesus, Ministry, Suffering, Witness
While reading the autobiography of the famous missionary theologian Lesslie Newbigin (1909-1999) I came across a statement about healing which was prompted by a Nigerian doctor who suggested that the basic unit of healing is not the hospital, it is the Christian...
by tschroder100@gmail.com | May 7, 2015 | Healing, Ministry, Morality, Sexuality, Witnessing
This a Guest post from Geoff Chapman, an old friend of mine who is Pastor of St. Stephen’s Church in Sewickley, Pennsylvania. It is much longer than my normal posts but well worth sharing. Desire, Celibacy, Homosexuality: Hard Questions and Gospel Answers Geoff...
by tschroder100@gmail.com | Apr 25, 2015 | Healing, Ministry, Suffering
Thomas E. Reynolds is father to a son who has been diagnosed with Tourette’s syndrome, Asperger’s syndrome, bipolar disorder and obsessive-compulsive disorder. Because of his disability churches they have attended requested that he not be in their Sunday School...
by tschroder100@gmail.com | Apr 14, 2015 | Faith, Healing, Suffering
I came across a wonderful quote in Dallas Willard’s admirable book, Renovation of the Heart (p.228). “A depressed and hopeless man came to John Wesley to inquire what message he gave to the multitudes of hearers he regularly addressed, morning and evening. Wesley...
by tschroder100@gmail.com | Mar 10, 2015 | Healing, Inspiration
What do you do when you or a loved one are diagnosed with incurable cancer? It is bad enough to have to face cancer at any age, but what if you or they are young? J. Todd Billings was thirty nine years old when he was told that he had a cancer of the bone marrow,...
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