by tschroder100@gmail.com | Jul 12, 2024 | Abortion, Aging, Atheism, Bible, Faith, God, Healing, Holy Spirit, Inspiration, Jesus, Ministry, Prayer, Science, Suffering
When I read the story of the healing of the paralytic (Mark 2:1-12) I notice three things: what Jesus saw, what Jesus said, and what Jesus knew. Let me take them in turn. Jesus is preaching the word to the people in his home. It was so crowded there was no room left...
by tschroder100@gmail.com | Jun 13, 2024 | Aging, Atheism, Bible, Faith, God, Healing, Jesus, Morality, Movies, Politics, Prayer, Reading, Science, Sexuality, Suffering, The World, Worship
The Bible tells us that God goes before everything else. God is prior to all things. God is to be pre-eminent in all things. All life follows God. God is the leader, we are the followers. That is the order of creation and salvation. To attempt to reverse that order is...
by tschroder100@gmail.com | May 2, 2024 | Atheism, Faith, God, Jesus, Morality, Politics, Reading, Science, Sexuality, Suffering, The World
John Gray, English professor at Oxford, London, Harvard and Yale and the author of more than twenty books on politics and philosophy has written a thought provoking book on contemporary culture entitled The New Leviathans: Thoughts after Liberalism, reflecting on...
by tschroder100@gmail.com | Apr 7, 2024 | Aging, Atheism, Bible, Church, Faith, God, Inspiration, Jesus, Ministry, Prayer, Reading, Science, Witness, Worship
Thomas, one of the twelve disciples of Jesus, was a twin. We don’t hear of his twin, and we know nothing about his childhood. But we know that he was always asking questions. He never accepted anything without asking for an explanation. That is what got him a few...
by tschroder100@gmail.com | Mar 30, 2024 | Abortion, Aging, Atheism, Bible, Church, Faith, God, Jesus, Ministry, Morality, Politics, Science, Sexuality, Suffering, The World, Witness
The cycle of nature repeatedly demonstrates resurrection to renewed life. Darkness turns to dawn. The new day begins. The ebb tide of the ocean turns and flows into fullness. The cocoon breaks open and the butterfly emerges as a different creature from its former...
by tschroder100@gmail.com | Feb 5, 2024 | Aging, Bible, Church, Faith, God, Healing, Holy Spirit, Jesus, Ministry, Movies, Prayer, Reading, Science, Suffering
Robert De Niro played a gangster in the movie Analyze This, who started suffering from anxiety attacks. He gets dizzy, short of breath, hyperventilates and thinks he is having a heart attack. It is hard for him to accept the diagnosis that he, a macho mafia-type,...
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