by tschroder100@gmail.com | Nov 5, 2020 | Faith, God, Healing, Holy Spirit, Inspiration, Jesus, Politics, Prayer, Suffering, The World
St. Paul expresses a prayer-wish, a benediction, in Romans 15:13. May the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace as you trust in him, so that you may overflow with hope by the power of the Holy Spirit. God is One who gives hope, sustains hope, crowns hope. Hope...
by tschroder100@gmail.com | Oct 20, 2020 | Faith, God, Jesus, Morality, Politics, Prayer, The World, Witness
Richard Halverson was Chaplain to the U.S. Senate 1981-1994. In a time of political animosity and electoral turmoil in the U.S.A., no matter what our personal convictions might be, his words are challenging. He wrote in 1982. One of the false assumptions – very...
by tschroder100@gmail.com | Oct 3, 2020 | Aging, Faith, God, Healing, Jesus, Ministry, Politics, Reading, Science, Suffering, The World
One of my most rewarding resources during this pandemic is HEALTHY FAITH AND THE CORONAVIRUS CRISIS, edited by Kristi Mair and Luke Cawley. It contains 29 chapters by Christian authors and specialists on different aspects of the present challenges. The contributors...
by tschroder100@gmail.com | Sep 30, 2020 | Aging, Atheism, Bible, Church, Faith, God, Jesus, Ministry, Morality, Politics, Prayer, Suffering, The World
The Course of Empire: Desolation, Thomas Cole (1801-1848). In 2012 I visited the Columbia, South Carolina Museum of Art to view 45 paintings of the Hudson River School of Painters on loan from the New York Historical Society. The magnificent landscapes of Thomas Cole,...
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...
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