MyLife Workshop

10/31/2024

Thirty-nine years ago today Jan and I left North America with two small children to begin our church planting adventure in Germany. Today I fly to Frankfurt for three weeks of ministry. Jan is holding down the fort, caring for her folks.

10/25/2024

Welcome to a new blog post

For forty-three years now Jan and I have been wearing wedding bands that have a carefully chosen Bible reference engraved on them. “So we make it our goal to please him, whether we are at home in the body or away from it.” (2 Cor 5:9). Our goal is to live in such a manor that Christ would be ple...

10/24/2024

My message last Sunday at Elmbrook Lake Country

As we continue through our current sermon series, guest speaker Diet Schindler shares from Jonah chapter 4.

10/08/2024

Only for those not faint of heart - today's blog:

https://www.dietrichschindler.com/blog/on-dying-four-reasons-why-you-should-think-of-your-death-daily

Our world avoids thinking and speaking of death like the plague. In this regard our culture is an anomaly. For centuries it was in good taste to ponder one’s own death often and deeply. French artist Auguste Rodin was one of the world’s most gifted sculptors. He lived at the close of the ninetee...

10/07/2024

Check out my new post on a new series - "On Dying"

Living in the Liminal Jan’s parents are in the throes of bodily and mental decline. They are dying. This is why we are here; to be with them and support them as they live in the land of in-between. Liminal space is the term I use to describe their state; they are leaving the life they have known

10/04/2024

Take a look at today's blog:

https://www.dietrichschindler.com/blog/chapter-thirteen-celebrating

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10/03/2024

Take a look at today's blog post. You can order my book here:

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https://www.dietrichschindler.com/blog/chapter-twelve-progressing

10/02/2024

Read today's blog post on discernment:

Discerning The unexamined life is not worth living Socrates   Michael Plant was a legend among yacht racing enthusiasts. Three times, Plant had circumnavigated the globe on sailing vessels, often facing innumerable perils brought on by gale-force storms, monstrous waves, and mechan

10/01/2024

Today's post can be seen here:

Chapter Ten Helping When I was a young boy and I would see scary things in the news, my mother would say to me, ‘Look for the helpers. You will always find people who are helping.’ -          Fred Rodgers [i] Wh

09/30/2024

Check out my latest blog post here:

Chapter Nine Trembling “ As the sun angled, the buttes and coulees, the cliffs and sculptured hills and ravines lost their burned and dreadful look, and glowed with yellow and rich browns and a hundred variations of red and silver gray, all picked out of coal black. It was so beautiful that I s

09/27/2024

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Chapter Seven

09/26/2024

Take a look at chapter six of my book "GO LOW - Learning Humility in a Hubristic Age."

Chapter Six Bending Down “What you tell me about in the nights. That is not love. That is only passion and lust. When you love you wish to do things for. Your wish to sacrifice for. You wish to serve.” -