by tschroder100@gmail.com | Aug 8, 2016 | Atheism, Bible, Church, Jesus, Ministry, Morality, Politics, Witness
Continuing the insights of Jonathan Leeman in POLITICAL CHURCH: The Local Assembly as Embassy of Christ’s Rule begun in my last post, he cites the writings of John Locke which informed the thinking of the Founding Fathers in the Declaration of Independence:...
by tschroder100@gmail.com | Jul 10, 2016 | Morality, Politics, Suffering, The World
James Weldon Johnson (1871-1938) was born in Jacksonville, Florida of educated parents who relocated from the Bahamas after the Civil War. In his enormously interesting and eloquent autobiography, ALONG THIS WAY, he tells the story of his childhood during...
by tschroder100@gmail.com | Jun 28, 2016 | Inspiration, Politics, The World
Todd G. Buchholz is a former White House Director of economic policy and winner of Harvard’s annual teaching prize in economics. He has authored several books and written for the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Time, and Forbes. He regularly appears on PBS, NPR,...
by tschroder100@gmail.com | Jun 25, 2016 | Politics, The World
Many of the issues that drove those who voted for the United Kingdom to leave the European Union are reflected in the signing of the Declaration of Independence on July 4, 1776. Freedom to have control of one’s own destiny rather than to suffer the tyranny of...
by tschroder100@gmail.com | Jun 9, 2016 | Morality, Politics, Sexuality, The World, Witness
David Kinnaman & Gabe Lyons have authored GOOD FAITH: Being a Christian when society thinks you’re irrelevant and extreme, because they believe that American culture is becoming hostile to people of faith. There is a tendency for people to think that Christianity...
by tschroder100@gmail.com | Jun 7, 2016 | Politics, The World
In the light of the present political headlines I find the following words of Eugene Peterson a helpful corrective. “This world is no friend to grace…The world is protean: each generation has the world to deal with in a new form. World is an atmosphere, a mood. It is...
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