by tschroder100@gmail.com | Apr 20, 2019 | Aging, Atheism, Bible, Church, Faith, Inspiration, Jesus, Witness
When I was eleven years old my grandmother died suddenly at the age of fifty nine. Her death was shock to me. I could not understand how a person so vibrant and alive one moment could be gone the next. I can remember seeing her laid out in her coffin in her bedroom...
by tschroder100@gmail.com | Apr 18, 2019 | Abortion, Atheism, Bible, Church, Faith, Inspiration, Jesus, Ministry, Morality, Politics, Reading, Sexuality, Suffering, The World, Witness
While recovering from knee replacement surgery I have passed the time reading a wide variety of books. Over the years I have collected eighteen volumes of Prince Valiant by Hal Foster published by Fantagraphic Books. The Prince Valiant comics ran from 1937 and I hope...
by tschroder100@gmail.com | Apr 17, 2019 | Church, Faith, Inspiration, Jesus, Ministry, Prayer, Suffering, Worship
How marvelous, how wonderful! And my song shall ever be: How marvelous, how wonderful is my Savior’s love for me. I stand amazed in the presence of Jesus the Nazarene, and wonder how he could love me, a sinner, condemned, unclean. For me it was in the garden he...
by tschroder100@gmail.com | Apr 16, 2019 | Faith, Inspiration, Jesus, Ministry, Prayer, Suffering, Worship
Desiring to gain the great spiritual truths of Holy Week I turned to the section in my Worship and Rejoice hymnal for inspiration. While we do not sing these hymns often they contain a goldmine of prayerful resources. Here are some of them. Go to dark Gethsemane, you...
by tschroder100@gmail.com | Mar 11, 2019 | Bible, Church, Inspiration, Jesus, Ministry, Prayer, Witness, Worship
In April 1999 I took my staff team to a church growth conference put on by Walt Kallestad and his leadership at Community Church of Joy, Glendale, Arizona. It was a very productive conference on creating a vision for growth and putting it into action. In a Leadership...
by tschroder100@gmail.com | Feb 26, 2019 | Bible, Church, Faith, Inspiration, Jesus, Ministry, Reading
The Sunday before Lent used to be called Quinquagesima Sunday, i.e. fifty days before Easter. The epistle to be read on that Sunday was 1 Corinthians 13, Paul’s great hymn of love. The emphasis on the spirit of love is intended to show us the true spirit of Lenten...
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