by tschroder100@gmail.com | May 1, 2022 | Bible, Church, Faith, God, Holy Spirit, Inspiration, Jesus, Ministry, Morality, Prayer, Reading, The World, Witness, Worship
In an article for Christianity Today (Friday, April 29, 2022) Glenn Packiam writes, “Pastors do not hold the place of community esteem they once did. According to Barna’s State of Pastors report (2017), only about one in five Americans thinks of a pastor as very...
by tschroder100@gmail.com | Apr 17, 2022 | Bible, Faith, God, Holy Spirit, Inspiration, Jesus, Ministry, The World, Witness, Worship
The cycle of nature repeatedly demonstrates resurrection to renewed life. Darkness turns to dawn. The new day begins. The ebb tide of the ocean turns and flows into fullness. The cocoon breaks open and the butterfly emerges as a different creature from its former...
by tschroder100@gmail.com | Apr 12, 2022 | Aging, Bible, Church, Faith, God, Holy Spirit, Jesus, Ministry, Prayer, Suffering, Witness, Worship
It was on Holy Thursday (AKA Maundy Thursday) of his last week that Jesus instituted his Lord’s Supper which has also become known as Holy Communion, the Eucharist or the Mass. It was his replacement of the Passover which was celebrated annually to remind the...
by tschroder100@gmail.com | Mar 28, 2022 | Bible, Church, Faith, God, Holy Spirit, Jesus, Ministry, The World, Witness
What is the mission of the church? What is its purpose? Why does it exist? The church itself was seen in the Epistles to be God’s new society, the new community, the new creation of God. The very existence of the church, with the new life its members were living, was...
by tschroder100@gmail.com | Mar 27, 2022 | Bible, Church, Faith, God, Holy Spirit, Jesus, Ministry, The World, Witness
Our mission is described in the Acts of the Apostles as establishing the Kingdom of the Spirit of Jesus. First of all, there is The Promise of the Spirit in Acts 1. The main topics of our Lord’s instruction during the forty days between his resurrection and his...
by tschroder100@gmail.com | Mar 24, 2022 | Bible, Church, Faith, God, Jesus, Ministry, The World, Witness
Before The Purpose Driven Life, Rick Warren held conferences on The Purpose Driven Church, one of which I attended in Houston. There is often confusion about our mission. What are we about – our purpose? What is our message? When I arrived at the Chapel in 2000 I...
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