by tschroder100@gmail.com | Aug 13, 2020 | Atheism, Bible, Church, Faith, God, Ministry, Morality, Movies, Politics, Science, Sexuality, Suffering, The World
On March 8, 1983, President Ronald Reagan called the Soviet Union, the “evil empire” in a speech to the National Association of Evangelicals in Orlando. He said: “They preach the supremacy of the state, declare its omnipotence over individual man and predict its...
by tschroder100@gmail.com | Aug 8, 2020 | Bible, Church, Faith, God, Healing, Jesus, Morality, Politics, Suffering, The World
Why is so much world history about wars and battles between people, races and nations? Why is so much national politics about party divisions, competing ideas of justice, equality and liberty, class warfare, racial stereotypes, struggles for power, and personal...
by tschroder100@gmail.com | Jul 22, 2020 | Abortion, Aging, Bible, Church, Faith, God, Jesus, Morality, Politics, Suffering, The World
During the past couple of months I have been studying Dante’s Divine Comedy. It is composed of three books: Inferno, Purgatorio and Paradisio in Italian and Hell, Purgatory and Heaven in English. Dorothy Sayers has been my guide in the Penguin Classics series. She...
by tschroder100@gmail.com | Jul 20, 2020 | Atheism, Bible, Faith, God, Inspiration, Jesus, Morality, Politics, Suffering, The World
An exposition of Revelation 6: the four horsemen. Each of us has our own story about human suffering. Whether it is about ourselves, or a loved one, or the tragedies we read about in newspapers or on television, or in the history books, there is plenty of suffering in...
by tschroder100@gmail.com | Jul 6, 2020 | Bible, Church, Faith, God, Healing, Jesus, Morality, Politics, Suffering, The World, Witness
All forms of racial discrimination are an evil. No biblical Christian can be a racist. Paul in his speech to the Athenian Areopagus made that plain (Acts 17:22-31). The Athenians were racists, proud of their racial superiority. Greeks despised non-Greeks as ignorant...
by tschroder100@gmail.com | Jul 1, 2020 | Faith, God, Healing, Inspiration, Morality, Politics, The World
On April 4, 1865 President Abraham Lincoln visited Richmond, Virginia after it had fallen to the Union forces. He encountered a sullen white population seething with resentment. He stepped out of his rowboat onto the riverbank. There was no reception committee but one...
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