by tschroder100@gmail.com | Mar 2, 2020 | Bible, Church, Faith, God, Jesus, Ministry, Morality, Prayer, Suffering, The World, Witness
On the first Sunday in Lent we read about the temptations of Jesus by the devil in the wilderness (Matthew 4:1-11; Mark 1:12,13; Luke 4:1-13). It is an archetype of the spiritual conflict we experience on a daily basis. What are the temptations we commonly experience?...
by tschroder100@gmail.com | Feb 26, 2020 | Church, Faith, God, Healing, Ministry, Morality, Politics, Prayer, Suffering, The World, Worship
On November 14, 1940, a German air-raid passed over the center of England. The medieval cathedral of Coventry was left a burnt-out shell. In 1962 a new cathedral was consecrated which I visited a couple of years later. It is strikingly beautiful with its Sutherland...
by tschroder100@gmail.com | Feb 17, 2020 | Atheism, Bible, Church, Faith, God, Islam, Jesus, Ministry, Morality, Suffering, The World
The eye of a hurricane is deceptive. All is calm. You think that the worst of the storm is over but it has only just begun. The backside of the storm can be worse than the front. All that was damaged before is subjected to another battering. Whatever was weakened is...
by tschroder100@gmail.com | Feb 11, 2020 | Atheism, Bible, Faith, God, Morality, Politics, Science, Suffering, The World
What is the source of radical evil that seeks to corrupt and pervert the human race? What causes violence, cruelty, genocide, self-centeredness, abuse, neglect and war? Jeffrey Burton Russell writes: “We are again aware of the ineradicable nature of perversity in our...
by tschroder100@gmail.com | Feb 6, 2020 | Bible, Faith, God, Jesus, Morality, Suffering
Peter Vardy and Julie Arliss in The Thinker’s Guide to Evil, maintain that “evil is one of the deepest and most central problems of human existence.” They analyze various sources of evil. First, the freedom of human beings to choose to be selfish, self-centered and to...
by tschroder100@gmail.com | Jan 30, 2020 | Aging, Church, Faith, God, Jesus, Ministry, Suffering
On the first page of Paul’s letter to the Colossians we find a surprising statement: ‘I rejoice in sufferings for your sake, and in my flesh I complete what is lacking in Christ’s afflictions for the sake of his body, that is, the church’ (Col.1:24). What can these...
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