by tschroder100@gmail.com | Mar 8, 2024 | Aging, Bible, Faith, God, Healing, Holy Spirit, Inspiration, Jesus, Ministry, Morality, Prayer, Reading, Suffering, Worship
C.S. Lewis entitled his autobiography up to his conversion to Christ, Surprised by Joy. He describes joy as that “of an unsatisfied desire which is itself more desirable than any other satisfaction. I call it Joy, which is here a technical term and must be sharply...
by tschroder100@gmail.com | Feb 25, 2024 | Faith, God, Healing, Jesus, Ministry, Suffering, Worship
Gershon Kaufman in Shame: The Power of Caring writes, “To feel shame is to feel seen in a painfully diminished sense. The self feels exposed both to itself and to anyone else present. Contained in the experience of shame is the piercing awareness of ourselves as...
by tschroder100@gmail.com | Feb 21, 2024 | Bible, Church, Faith, God, Jesus, Ministry, Morality, Politics, Suffering, The World, Witness
Dr Campbell-Jack in his most recent post on his blog A GRAIN OF SAND writes about the Christian faith and witness of Alexei Navalny. A HERO FOR OUR TIME FEATURED ~ CAMPBELL Alexei Navalny, one of the heroes of our time, died in a prison camp of Vladimir Putin, one of...
by tschroder100@gmail.com | Feb 15, 2024 | Bible, Church, Faith, God, Healing, Jesus, Ministry, Morality, Politics, Prayer, Suffering, Witness
Sitting in a meeting of the Advisory Board of Micah’s Place, our county domestic abuse shelter agency, several references were made to the need for anger management classes in our schools and the county jail. Violence, it was said, is a learned behavior. Children who...
by tschroder100@gmail.com | Feb 5, 2024 | Aging, Bible, Church, Faith, God, Healing, Holy Spirit, Jesus, Ministry, Movies, Prayer, Reading, Science, Suffering
Robert De Niro played a gangster in the movie Analyze This, who started suffering from anxiety attacks. He gets dizzy, short of breath, hyperventilates and thinks he is having a heart attack. It is hard for him to accept the diagnosis that he, a macho mafia-type,...
by tschroder100@gmail.com | Jan 9, 2024 | Abortion, Aging, Bible, Church, Ministry, Morality, Politics, Prayer, Sexuality, Suffering, Witness, Worship
Chuck Lawless posted on his blog some challenging reasons some folk don’t listen to preaching or teaching in church (Jan.8,2024). They include 1. Distraction: something else was going on in their head – like worries, concerns, exciting plans etc. 2. Fatigue: being...
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