by tschroder100@gmail.com | Sep 26, 2020 | Aging, Bible, Faith, God, Jesus, Movies, Suffering, Witness
Psalm 16 is the third psalm used by Handel in Messiah. It is also used in the New Testament book of the Acts of the Apostles by St. Peter (Acts 2) and St. Paul (Acts 13) to present the Gospel to their contemporaries. Why did they use this psalm? Jesus himself used...
by tschroder100@gmail.com | Sep 21, 2020 | Aging, Bible, Church, Faith, God, Healing, Inspiration, Jesus, Prayer, Reading, Suffering, The World, Worship
On Tuesday, December 6, 2011, Antoinette and I walked past St. James’s Church, Spanish Place, next to our hotel in the West End of London, and noticed that there would be a performance of Handel’s Messiah that evening, by the choir of the Cardinal Vaughan Memorial...
by tschroder100@gmail.com | Sep 14, 2020 | Atheism, Bible, Church, Faith, God, Healing, Islam, Jesus, Reading, Suffering, The World
Handel uses four psalms in his oratorio The Messiah. Psalm 22:7,8 is used to describe the religious leaders’ ridicule of Jesus during his agony on the Cross as quoted in the Gospels. “All they that see him laugh him to scorn: they shoot out their lips, and shake their...
by tschroder100@gmail.com | Sep 11, 2020 | Bible, Church, Faith, God, Healing, Holy Spirit, Inspiration, Islam, Jesus, Morality, Politics, Prayer, Reading, Suffering, The World, Witness
Anglican Bishop Hassan Dequani-Tafti’s son Bahram was murdered by Islamic revolutionaries in Iran in 1989. He wrote “A Father’s Prayer on the Martyrdom of his Son”. It has become known world-wide, translated into many languages and made available in numerous books. O...
by tschroder100@gmail.com | Sep 9, 2020 | Bible, Faith, God, Healing, Inspiration, Jesus, Ministry, Morality, Politics, Prayer, Suffering, The World, Witness
Martin Luther King answered the question, “How do we love our enemies?” First, we must develop and maintain the capacity to forgive. He who is devoid of the power to forgive is devoid of the power to love. The degree to which we are able to forgive determines the...
by tschroder100@gmail.com | Sep 7, 2020 | Bible, Church, Faith, God, Healing, Holy Spirit, Inspiration, Jesus, Ministry, Politics, Reading, Suffering, The World
Corrie ten Boom was the means God used to challenge me to give my life to Christ when she spoke in my home church in 1956. Her story of being imprisoned in Ravensbruck concentration camp with her sister for helping Jews to escape the Nazis during World War II, and...
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