Dr. Bob Snyder practiced emergency medicine for 15 years and served as co-chairman of the Emergency Medicine Department at Brandywine Hospital, Coatesville, PA. and served as faculty in Emergency Medicine at Thomas Jefferson University, Philadelphia. In 1996 God called Bob and his wife, Pamela, to Budapest, Hungary. As a result, IHS Global was birthed. Enjoy the writings from Bob over the many years of service.
Fear or Faith
The unseen, unknown and uncertain create for me fertile ground for anxiety and fear. However, it is also the precious soil for...
Running to God in Times of Trouble
When times are tough, I am tempted to “run away” in one way or another—sometimes denial, sometimes avoidance...
Hypocrite!
I know my heart. At times it is filled with malice and deceit. Pretending goodness at such times makes me a hypocrite! However,...
Diversity in search of unity
A former colleague of mine is now the Dean of Diversity at a major university medical school. I assume one the of the...
Seeing Christmas Clearly
In elementary school, my teacher scraped the surface of a table onto a slide and placed the slide under the microscope....
Family characteristics
I was curious how a father from our church motivated his teenaged children to mow the lawn and do errands for an elderly...
Laugh 2x/day and call me in the morning!
Laugh 2x/day and call me in the morning!I love to laugh. I don't do it enough because I take myself too seriously....
Childlike Gratitude
Where has my thankfulness for the simple gifts of life gone? Where is my childlike gratitude? As I have “matured”,...
Faith Maintenance
The opening paragraph in my car’s service booklet says the following:“Regularly maintaining your vehicle...
Taxi Cab Wisdom
One day I hopped in a taxi to discover that my cab driver was from Kosovo. We talked about the history of turmoil in that...
Maturing Seeds
As a teenager, sitting on a tractor day in and day out, I learned to appreciate the difficulty of a planted seed...
Not What is Next, but What is Now
"What is important is not what is next but what is now." My friend continued by saying that many times she thinks so...
Looking for God
Sometimes I fail to see God when circumstances don't live up to my expectations. Instead of looking for God, I have been...
Be a Blessing
Often as I leave for work my wife will say to me, “Be a blessing”. Her words indicate her great expectations for me...
A Suggestion or A Command?
Early in my life I learned a valuable lesson – to distinguish between a suggestion and a command. Initially I did not...
The Battle for Self-Discipline
It was the morning of my flight from Vienna to Philadelphia. When I fly west, I try to eat only a small breakfast since food is...
The First Translation of the Bible
The first translation of the Bible was not into Chinese, Russian or English. Rather the first rendering of the Word of God was...