Author: Steve Froehlich
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Let the Strangers Be Removed
“When strangers and foreignersreside among you in your land,do not mistreat them.The strangers and foreignersresiding among youmust be treated as your native-born.Love them as yourself,for you were strangers and foreignersin Egypt.I am the LORD your God.” (Leviticus 19:33-34) Sir Thomas More (1603-4) is an unpublished Elizabethan play and a dramatic biography based on events in…
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Luci Shaw
A 2014 interview with Luci Shaw published in Image Journal Two poems by Luci Shaw “You” You rinse your hands, hand over hand,and shake the water off. It rains.You toss your head, and each blazing hair flingsa cloud of crystals. Snow drifts rise in our yard.You whistle, and whirlwinds spiral,rearranging the dust of the Great…
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The Seven Deadly Sins
Below are links to text, audio, and video of a Fall 2025 sermon series Steve preached at Westminster Presbyterian Church, Rock Tavern, NY, on the Seven Deadly Sins: Pride, Lust, Wrath, Sloth, Gluttony, Greed, and Envy. Also below are several excellent resources on the subject. “We are half-hearted creatures, fooling about with drink and sex…
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Lynda Remembered
July 30, 2024 Lynda called. She has called every year for the past 25 years. On my birthday. I first met Lynda when Steve started seminary over 35 years ago. She wanted to host a women’s Bible study in her home in Jackson, MS using Kay Arthur’s Precept Bible study materials. Steve & I were…
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Rocks & Rills
June 10“A man should hear a little music, read a little poetry, and see a fine picture every day of his life,in order that worldly cares may not obliterate the sense of the beautifulwhich God has implanted in the human soul.”Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Two weeks ago I met a recovery goal. Donning cycling shoes,…
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Albuquerque
First, the headline: Steve has accepted an invitation from Mosaic Church (PCA) in Albuquerque, NM, to serve as interim pastor beginning August 01 for 6-9 months.Wow! We didn’t see that coming. Within the same week 2 churches reached out to ask if we’d be interested in an interim position. A year ago, we would have…
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Land of My Sojourn
Mike Cosper Marvin Olasky reviews Mike Cosper’s memoir, Land of My Sojourn, which takes a hard look at the intersection of modern evangelicalism and politics MC: “Highly visible leaders in the large church I’d grown up respecting became bootlicking pundits, contorting both their spines and the Scriptures to provide apologetic to support their naked embrace…
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Waiting for the Light
by Philip Yancey Philip Yancey reflects on the account of Pastor Hanns Lilje, a prisoner in Buchenwald prison camp: “On that memorable Christmas Eve of 1944, in a moment of ‘sentimental softness’ the SS commandant removed the chains of a violinist awaiting execution and allowed him to play in the large vaulted hall of the…
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Pray for the Peace of Jerusalem
When Hamas launched its terrorist assault on Israel on October 07, I was asked to write a statement to our local Jewish communities on behalf of Ithaca pastors and Christian leaders. My Jewish next-door neighbors graciously reviewed it and helped me understand how what I had drafted might be received and heard. I’m grateful for…
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When You Have Been Hurt by the Church
In the Fall of 2023 NLPC pastor, Tim LeCroy, preached a sermon series on “hard questions.” He asked me to preach on church hurts as an installment in that series. Many people have left the Church and may even have thought about giving up on God as a result of how they have been treated…