Author: <span>Andrew Schroer</span>

A Sabbath from social media

Post author:Andrew Schroer
Post published:2020/09/28
Post category:FIC Features FIC Series Forward in Christ

After a long week of work and worry, the weekend always feels good. From the time I was little, I loved Saturdays. You get to sleep in. You get to…

Bittersweet

Post author:Andrew Schroer
Post published:2020/07/28
Post category:FIC Features Forward in Christ

We come back to worship, but it’s just not the same. I was giddy with anticipation. After two months of exile, we were finally going to gather again to worship…

As we come and go

Post author:Andrew Schroer
Post published:2020/06/29
Post category:FIC Features Forward in Christ

I am overflowing with excitement. As I write these words, we are making our final preparations to celebrate our first public worship services as a church in over two months.…

Holy Week is coming!

Post author:Andrew Schroer
Post published:2020/03/31
Post category:FIC Features Forward in Christ

Andrew C. Schroer My favorite Christmas movie of all time is the movie Elf. In the movie, Will Ferrell plays a man who was raised as an elf at the…

A life like Mr. Panza’s

Post author:Andrew Schroer
Post published:2019/12/07
Post category:FIC Features Forward in Christ

Andrew C. Schroer Mr. Panza is 97 years old. He lives in the nursing home down the road from my house. Over the last year, he and I have become…

Get busy living

Post author:Andrew Schroer
Post published:2019/10/01
Post category:FIC Features FIC Series Forward in Christ

Andrew Schroer In the 1997 movie The Shawshank Redemption, Tim Robbins played Andy Dufresne, a quiet banker wrongfully accused and convicted of killing his wife. After 20 years in Shawshank Prison, Dufresne had enough. In one of the most…

Not just the capital of Rhode Island

Post author:Andrew Schroer
Post published:2019/07/01
Post category:FIC Features FIC Series Forward in Christ

Andrew C. Schroer In December of 1630, Roger Williams, a Puritan pastor from England, boarded a ship called the Lyon and sailed to the New World. He and his wife,…

Judgement-free zone

Post author:Andrew Schroer
Post published:2019/04/01
Post category:FIC Features FIC Series Forward in Christ

Andrew C. Schroer On July 22, 2018, a 34-year-old man named Eric Stagno walked into a Planet Fitness gym in New Hampshire. He stopped at the front counter, took off all his clothes, and then proceeded to do yoga…

Drowning in a sea of bad news

Post author:Andrew Schroer
Post published:2019/01/01
Post category:FIC Features FIC Series Forward in Christ

Andrew C. Schroer The news can be overwhelming. It doesn’t matter whether you watch CNN, Fox, or MSNBC. I don’t see a difference whether you catch the local news on…

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