by tschroder100@gmail.com | May 24, 2018 | Bible, Inspiration, Jesus, Suffering
They were at their wits’ end. Then they cried out to the LORD in their trouble, and he brought them out of their distress. (Psalm 107:27-28) Are you standing at “Wits’ End Corner,” Christian with troubled brow? Are you thinking of what is before you, And all you are...
by tschroder100@gmail.com | May 20, 2018 | Church, Inspiration, Ministry, Witness
At his Ascension Jesus promised the disciples that “you will receive power when the Holy Spirit has come upon you, and you will be my witnesses… to the end of the earth (Acts 1:8). When the day of Pentecost arrived a mighty rushing wind and tongues of fire rested on...
by tschroder100@gmail.com | Apr 24, 2018 | Aging, Bible, Faith, Healing, Inspiration, Jesus, Ministry, Prayer, Suffering
In 1984 Reynolds Price, professor of English at Duke University, began a four year battle with spinal cancer. After surgery to remove the tumor, and a series of radiation treatments, he was left with searing pain and lost the use of his legs. For four years he...
by tschroder100@gmail.com | Apr 15, 2018 | Faith, Inspiration, Jesus, Suffering
Dr Armand Nicholi, professor of psychiatry at Harvard Medical School writes that, “What often appears to be the cause of despondency in many today is an awareness of the gap between what they think they ought to be and what they feel they are. That is, there is a...
by tschroder100@gmail.com | Apr 13, 2018 | Inspiration, Prayer
Recently I have been using the Private Devotions of Lancelot Andrewes in my morning prayers. Andrewes was born in 1555 and died in 1626. His ministry encompassed being Chaplain to Queen Elizabeth I and Privy Councillor to King James 1. He was on the committee that...
by tschroder100@gmail.com | Apr 10, 2018 | Abortion, Aging, Atheism, Bible, Church, Faith, Inspiration, Jesus, Ministry, Movies, Politics, Suffering, The World, Witness
Every Lent I set myself the discipline of reading some meaty spiritual classic. This year I decided to read LOOKING FORWARD 2: Every Next Moment, The Meaning of the Cross, by a longtime friend, Harald K. Haugan, affectionately known as “Whitey”, by his shock of...
RSS Feed
Recent Comments