by tschroder100@gmail.com | Jan 22, 2019 | Atheism, Bible, Faith, Jesus, Ministry, Prayer, Suffering, Worship
How do you cope with evil? The book of Job is the classic treatment of undeserved suffering in the Bible. In chapter one Job is described as blameless and upright; he feared God and shunned evil. Yet a combination of natural disaster and human depravity devastates his...
by tschroder100@gmail.com | Jan 13, 2019 | Church, Jesus, Ministry, Prayer, Reading, Suffering, The World, Witness
I have never found it easy to preach to congregations I do not know. I much prefer to be at home in the pulpit with my own congregation, with the people who know me. This section from John Stott explains why I feel that way. “Though you have many countless guides in...
by tschroder100@gmail.com | Jan 11, 2019 | Atheism, Bible, Church, Faith, Jesus, Ministry, Suffering, Witness
Jesus Christ stands on trial at the bar of world opinion. Secular, godless, non-Christian society, now uncommitted, now hostile, is in the role of judge. The devil accuses him with many ugly lies. The Holy Spirit is the counsel for the defense. He calls us to be...
by tschroder100@gmail.com | Dec 29, 2018 | Atheism, Bible, Faith, Inspiration, Jesus, Suffering
At one stage in her life, novelist Muriel Spark (1918-2006) wrote, “I resolved to write an autobiography which would help to explain, to myself and others: who am I?” She said it would give her a sense of enriched self-knowledge. Authors of autobiographies are...
by tschroder100@gmail.com | Dec 22, 2018 | Atheism, Bible, Church, Faith, Islam, Jesus, Politics, Prayer, Suffering, Uncategorized, Witness, Worship
On March 7, 1984, Jerry Levin, director of the CNN Middle East Bureau was walking from his Beirut, Lebanon apartment to his office when he was kidnapped by the terrorist group Hezbollah. He was placed in solitary confinement, chained to a radiator that didn’t work,...
by tschroder100@gmail.com | Dec 20, 2018 | Faith, Inspiration, Prayer, Suffering, The World
J.R.R. TOLKIEN. What happens when darkness falls and the waters rise, when the light grows dim and the rock seems slippery? What happens when we cannot see or stand, and our fall seems all but inevitable? What happens when our faith fails us? I recently re-read the...
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