by tschroder100@gmail.com | Sep 24, 2022 | Atheism, Bible, Church, Faith, God, Holy Spirit, Inspiration, Jesus, Ministry, Morality, Politics, Reading, Science, Sexuality, Suffering, The World, Witness, Worship
Enlightenment thinkers in the eighteenth century understood the world through the lens of experimental science. Believing that all phenomena operated according to universal natural laws, they judged every intellectual proposition according to the test of reason. Their...
by tschroder100@gmail.com | Aug 26, 2022 | Aging, Atheism, Faith, God, Reading, Suffering, Witness
“Every good and perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of lights, who does not change like shifting shadows.” (James 1:17) IN RETROSPECT I am sitting tonight in the glow of the grate and am counting the years that have gone, And I’m thinking of how I...
by tschroder100@gmail.com | Jul 26, 2022 | Aging, Reading
“A man may do his work with wisdom, knowledge and skill, and then he must leave all he owns to someone who has not worked for it.” (Ecclesiastes 2:21) We have lived twenty-two years at our present address. We moved here from a larger house where we lived fourteen...
by tschroder100@gmail.com | Jul 22, 2022 | Aging, Bible, God, Inspiration, Ministry, Politics, Reading, Science, The World
“Be transformed by the renewing of your mind.” (Romans 12:2) While the body may deteriorate as we age we must make every effort to stimulate our minds intellectually. It is so easy to become lazy, not only physically, but also intellectually. As we strive to exercise...
by tschroder100@gmail.com | Jul 8, 2022 | Abortion, Aging, Atheism, Bible, Church, Faith, God, Ministry, Morality, Politics, Reading, Science, Sexuality, Suffering, The World, Witness
When so many bad things are happening in the world, and we never seem to learn the lessons of history, I find the book of Job to be filled with so much wisdom. It should be required reading for all politicians and statesmen to foster humility and to counter hubris....
by tschroder100@gmail.com | May 28, 2022 | Bible, Church, Faith, God, Holy Spirit, Inspiration, Jesus, Ministry, Politics, Prayer, Reading, Science, The World, Witness, Worship
For 5 years from 1971 to 1976 I worked with Harold John Ockenga at Gordon College, Massachusetts. He was President of the college, I was Dean of Christian Life, the chaplain. He was at the same time President of Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary which was on an...
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