by tschroder100@gmail.com | Mar 6, 2025 | Church, Faith, God, Holy Spirit, Jesus, Ministry, Morality, Politics, Prayer, Reading, Sexuality, Suffering, The World, Witness, Worship
“Search me, O God, and know my heart; test me and know my anxious thoughts. See if there is any offensive way in me, and lead me in the way everlasting. Psalm 139:23-24 Over the years of my life I have benefitted from the prayers of Eric Milner-White, a distinguished...
by tschroder100@gmail.com | Mar 4, 2025 | Islam, Morality, Politics, Reading, Science, Sexuality, Suffering, The World
I have recently discovered Roger Scruton’s reflections on the fallacies of modern culture that affect the thinking of those who want to bring about idealistic solutions to all the problems and challenges of humanity. It is entitled, THE USES OF PESSIMISM: AND THE...
by tschroder100@gmail.com | Feb 11, 2025 | Bible, Church, Ministry, Politics, Science, Sexuality, Suffering, The World, Witness
FROM JOHN STOTT TO TED SCHRODER Argentina, February 4, 1974 My dear Ted, Thank you and Antoinette for the lovely ‘Rooster’ tie of ducks in flight, which reached me in London just before I left. It was awfully kind of you. I missed you at Urbana [InterVarsity Missions...
by tschroder100@gmail.com | Feb 3, 2025 | Abortion, Aging, Atheism, Bible, Faith, God, Islam, Jesus, Morality, Politics, Science, Sexuality, Suffering
This is a review of WASTE LAND: A WORLD IN PERMANENT CRISIS by Robert D. Kaplan. I am a fan of his books as I have read many over the years. But this one paints a depressing view of the world and our future. He is Jewish but lacks a religious perspective. His view of...
by tschroder100@gmail.com | Jan 24, 2025 | Aging, God, Healing, Holy Spirit, Jesus, Ministry, Morality, Politics, Prayer, Suffering, Witness, Worship
One of the hardest commandments of Jesus is to love your enemies. Jesus said, “Love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you, so that you may be sons of your Father who is in heaven” (Matthew 5:44-45). Johann Arndt in his magisterial book, True Christianity...
by tschroder100@gmail.com | Jan 6, 2025 | Aging, Faith, God, Inspiration, Jesus, Politics, Prayer, Witness
The Feast of the Epiphany, or Three Kings’ Day, is celebrated on January 6 each year. In the Latin and Eastern Orthodox Church it is the day when gifts are given and received. Matthew 2 records the visit of the Magi to Bethlehem. Because St. Luke does not mention the...
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