by tschroder100@gmail.com | Jul 10, 2018 | Inspiration, Ministry, Politics, Prayer, Witness
I came across this prayer of Michel Quoist as I was packing my books. It expresses what I often think as I prepare to preach, and when I am told to keep silent. Speech is God’s gift. We shall have to account for it. It is through words that we communicate with each...
by tschroder100@gmail.com | Jun 26, 2018 | Aging, Faith, Jesus, Ministry, Prayer, Suffering
My Lord, God, the awful burden I feel in ageing is that I am your useless servant. My body is lumpish and clumsy, its beauty gone; I am stiff on my thickened legs, and cannot speed about serving others and you. My thoughts seem not to come out clearly, and I irritate...
by tschroder100@gmail.com | Jun 10, 2018 | Faith, Jesus, Ministry, Prayer, Suffering
“For you did not receive a spirit that makes you a slave again to fear, but you received the Spirit of sonship. And by him we cry, ‘Abba, Father’.” (Romans 8:15, NIV) “Nor are you meant to relapse into the old slavish attitude of fear-you have been adopted into the...
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 | May 8, 2018 | Church, Jesus, Ministry, Morality, Sexuality
Everything has its price. If you want to go along with the temptations of the world, the flesh and the devil, you have to accept the consequences – a life on the dark side, opposed to the light and love of God with all the sickness that entails. If you want to live in...
by tschroder100@gmail.com | May 6, 2018 | Bible, Church, Faith, Jesus, Ministry, Worship
Forty days after the Resurrection Jesus was taken up into heaven. From the earliest beginnings of the Christian church the Ascension of Jesus is counted among the primary facts of faith. It signifies many things about Jesus: his return to the Father, his reigning at...
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