by tschroder100@gmail.com | Mar 14, 2018 | Atheism, Church, Faith, Islam, Jesus, Morality, Movies, Politics, Suffering, Witness
I have just finished reading two Christian novels that I want to commend to your attention. THE BAGHDAD EUCHARIST by Sinan Antoon is about Christians in Iraq who are trying to survive in the midst of Islamic persecution. Antoon was born in 1967 in Baghdad. He received...
by tschroder100@gmail.com | Feb 28, 2018 | Morality, Politics, The World
Chris Gibson spent twenty-nine years in the U.S. Army, where he rose to the rank of colonel and commanded the 82nd Airborne Division’s 2nd Brigade. He served four combat tours in Iraq and was awarded four Bronze Star Medals and the Purple Heart. Raised in a...
by tschroder100@gmail.com | Jan 25, 2018 | Politics, Prayer, Suffering, The World
Joseph Loughlin, a former assistant chief of police for the city of Portland, Maine, has written a compelling book on the misunderstandings, misconceptions, and myths about police shootings, entitled, SHOTS FIRED. I met Joe many years ago after an Easter sunrise...
by tschroder100@gmail.com | Jan 13, 2018 | Politics, Reading, Suffering, The World
I am reading through Ron Chernow’s biography of Ulysses S. Grant. Chernow never disappoints me. I have read his biographies of Washington and Hamilton. His Grant is well worth slogging through over 900 pages. With the current hysteria about how bad things are in...
by tschroder100@gmail.com | Oct 10, 2017 | Bible, Church, Inspiration, Jesus, Ministry, Politics, Prayer, Witness, Worship
Recently I reread Dallas Willard’s THE SPIRIT OF THE DISCIPLINES which refers to the spiritual disciplines of the Christian Life: solitude, silence, fasting, frugality, chastity, secrecy, sacrifice, study, worship, celebration, service, prayer, fellowship, confession...
by tschroder100@gmail.com | Sep 28, 2017 | Atheism, Faith, Morality, Politics
In Western civilization we are going through a period of rationalism where the prevailing educational, entertainment and media elites, who influence the culture, have rejected any allegiance to divine authority in faith and morals. Truth is what a person wants to...
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