by tschroder100@gmail.com | Dec 22, 2023 | Faith, God, Jesus, Ministry, Morality, Politics, Sexuality, Suffering, The World, Witness
The Gospels tell us that Jesus came into a world of military dictatorship and genocide. The Word became flesh, God became man, when Caesar Augustus decreed that a census should be taken of the entire Roman world for purposes of military conscription and taxation....
by tschroder100@gmail.com | Nov 26, 2023 | Church, Faith, God, Jesus, Ministry, Politics, The World, Witness
The four weeks before Christmas Day constitute the season of Advent, which marks the beginning of the Christian year. Advent means ‘arrival’. It refers to the coming of Christ: his first coming in humility at Bethlehem, and his second coming in glory at the end of...
by tschroder100@gmail.com | Sep 12, 2023 | Bible, Church, Faith, God, Holy Spirit, Jesus, Ministry, Politics, Sexuality, The World, Witness
Nobody likes to think ill of people. You always want to give people the benefit of the doubt. Jesus tells us not to judge others harshly. Yet here he warns us to beware of false prophets who come to us in sheep’s clothing, but inwardly they are ferocious wolves. They...
by tschroder100@gmail.com | Jul 31, 2023 | Aging, Bible, Church, Faith, God, Jesus, Ministry, Suffering
As I enter into old age (I am 82 years old in 2023) and experience physical challenges I find consolation in Miguel de Unamuno’s classic written in 1912: The Tragic Sense of Life. Let me share with you some of his thoughts which stimulate my thinking. Love, pity,...
by tschroder100@gmail.com | May 27, 2023 | Church, Faith, God, Holy Spirit, Inspiration, Jesus, Ministry, Witness, Worship
Jesus told the disciples, “You will receive power when the Holy Spirit comes upon you. and you will be my witnesses….to the ends of the earth” (Acts 1:8). At Pentecost it happened! “They saw what seemed to be tongues of fire that separated and came to rest on each of...
by tschroder100@gmail.com | Apr 8, 2023 | Aging, Bible, Church, Faith, God, Jesus, Ministry, 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...
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