by tschroder100@gmail.com | Feb 19, 2025 | Aging, Bible, Church, God, Healing, Holy Spirit, Jesus, Prayer, Suffering, Witness
Jesus said, “A new command I give you: Love one another. As I have loved you, so you must love one another. By this all men will know you are my disciples, if you love one another.” (John 13:34,35) The first and greatest commandment is to love God and the second is to...
by tschroder100@gmail.com | Jan 27, 2025 | Aging, Faith, God, Healing, Holy Spirit, Jesus, Ministry, Movies, Prayer, Reading, Suffering, The World, Worship
Often men and women suffer enormous anxieties and stress in mind and emotions because of the constant tensions of our modern society. Without realizing it their bodies, their nervous systems and their mental stability are strained to the breaking point. In the movie,...
by tschroder100@gmail.com | Jan 24, 2025 | Aging, God, Healing, Holy Spirit, Jesus, Ministry, Morality, Politics, Prayer, Suffering, Witness, Worship
One of the hardest commandments of Jesus is to love your enemies. Jesus said, “Love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you, so that you may be sons of your Father who is in heaven” (Matthew 5:44-45). Johann Arndt in his magisterial book, True Christianity...
by tschroder100@gmail.com | Dec 28, 2024 | Aging, Faith, God, Holy Spirit, Inspiration, Jesus, Prayer, Suffering, The World, Worship
Almighty and immortal God, whose mercies are like your years, unnumbered, we your dependent creatures, humbly adore you for your manifold goodness to us and to all your children. Awaken in our hearts a thankful sense of your forbearance in preserving our lives through...
by tschroder100@gmail.com | Dec 6, 2024 | Aging, Faith, God, Holy Spirit, Inspiration, Jesus, Ministry, Politics, Prayer, Reading, Witness
In Leo Tolstoy’s short story, The Death of Ivan Ilych, a successful judge lived a totally conventional life, which he only began to question as he was dying. In the final weeks when he is in great pain and the doctors have admitted their inability to help him, he is...
by tschroder100@gmail.com | Nov 30, 2024 | Abortion, Aging, Atheism, Bible, Faith, God, Holy Spirit, Jesus, Ministry, Morality, Movies, Reading, Science
The other day I came upon the “age-old ego-stripping questions of place (Where am I?), origin (Where did I come from?), destiny (Where am I going?), identity (Who am I?), and purpose (Why am I?)”. These five questions cause us to reflect on the meaning of our lives in...
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