by tschroder100@gmail.com | Mar 30, 2024 | Aging, Bible, Faith, God, Jesus, Ministry, Suffering, The World, Witness, Worship
What did Jesus do, and where was he, in the days between noon on the first Good Friday, and his resurrection on Easter Sunday morning? This is the subject of, what we call the Intermediate State, what happens between death and resurrection. There is much conjecture...
by tschroder100@gmail.com | Mar 30, 2024 | Islam, Jesus, Suffering, The World, Witness, Worship
Some years ago I was visiting the National Portrait Gallery in London, which was showing an exhibition of Leonardo Da Vinci’s drawings. There was one unfinished painting entitled The Descent from the Cross, which portrayed Joseph of Arimathea, Nicodemus, John and...
by tschroder100@gmail.com | Mar 21, 2024 | Atheism, Bible, Church, Faith, God, Jesus, Ministry, Politics, Prayer, Sexuality, Witness, Worship
Most people believe in some kind of God. God is that which we give the highest priority in our lives. We can make a god of anything that we worship, i.e. give worth or value to. People worship at the shrines of all kinds of gods. Many today believe in themselves and...
by tschroder100@gmail.com | Mar 15, 2024 | Atheism, Bible, Church, Faith, God, Inspiration, Jesus, Ministry, Witness, Worship
The Creeds began to be used in worship as a means of expressing the faith of the Church. The earliest creed seems to have been simply “Jesus is Lord” (Romans 10:9; 1 Cor.12:3; 2 Cor.4:5; Phil.2:11). When believers were baptized they declared that Jesus was their Lord....
by tschroder100@gmail.com | Mar 8, 2024 | Aging, Bible, Faith, God, Healing, Holy Spirit, Inspiration, Jesus, Ministry, Morality, Prayer, Reading, Suffering, Worship
C.S. Lewis entitled his autobiography up to his conversion to Christ, Surprised by Joy. He describes joy as that “of an unsatisfied desire which is itself more desirable than any other satisfaction. I call it Joy, which is here a technical term and must be sharply...
by tschroder100@gmail.com | Feb 25, 2024 | Faith, God, Healing, Jesus, Ministry, Suffering, Worship
Gershon Kaufman in Shame: The Power of Caring writes, “To feel shame is to feel seen in a painfully diminished sense. The self feels exposed both to itself and to anyone else present. Contained in the experience of shame is the piercing awareness of ourselves as...
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