by tschroder100@gmail.com | Aug 4, 2020 | Faith, God, Jesus, Prayer, Suffering, The World, Worship
In the upper room during his last supper before his crucifixion Jesus promised his disciples, “You may ask me anything in my name, and I will do it.” (John 14:14) Yet often it appears that our prayers are unanswered. Where can we find encouragement to pray? How do we...
by tschroder100@gmail.com | Jul 29, 2020 | Bible, Faith, God, Inspiration, Jesus, Politics, Prayer, Suffering, The World
In his Inaugural Address in 1933, President Franklin Delano Roosevelt delivered his oft-quoted words: “Let me assert my firm belief that the only thing we have to fear is fear itself.” Zygmunt Bauman, one of the foremost social thinkers of our time, writes, Fear is at...
by tschroder100@gmail.com | Jul 22, 2020 | Abortion, Aging, Bible, Church, Faith, God, Jesus, Morality, Politics, Suffering, The World
During the past couple of months I have been studying Dante’s Divine Comedy. It is composed of three books: Inferno, Purgatorio and Paradisio in Italian and Hell, Purgatory and Heaven in English. Dorothy Sayers has been my guide in the Penguin Classics series. She...
by tschroder100@gmail.com | Jul 20, 2020 | Atheism, Bible, Faith, God, Inspiration, Jesus, Morality, Politics, Suffering, The World
An exposition of Revelation 6: the four horsemen. Each of us has our own story about human suffering. Whether it is about ourselves, or a loved one, or the tragedies we read about in newspapers or on television, or in the history books, there is plenty of suffering in...
by tschroder100@gmail.com | Jul 17, 2020 | Atheism, Bible, Church, Faith, God, Inspiration, Jesus, Politics, Science, The World, Witness, Worship
An exposition of Revelation 4 & 5. “After this I looked, and there before me was a door standing open in heaven. And the voice I had first heard speaking to me like a trumpet said, ‘Come up here, and I will show you what must take place after this.’” (Rev.4:1) We...
by tschroder100@gmail.com | Jul 14, 2020 | Aging, Bible, Church, Faith, God, Jesus, Ministry, Politics, Suffering, The World, Witness, Worship
Over the years the book of Revelation has become a favorite of mine. I believe that its message is perennially relevant to our lives and times. I believe that it is what it claims to be: a revealing or prophecy of what is really taking place, in the present and the...
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