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.
God's Handiwork
I was taught to love, care, protect and provide for the weak, the poor and the vulnerable. Why? Because they are weak, poor and...
Finding a Cure
Vaccines to stop this pandemic. Medical therapies to treat this scourge. We need a cure. Without a treatment we are destined to...
God’s Presence in the Midst of a Pandemic
Do you, like me, feel inadequate and a bit overwhelmed during this time of pandemic? Moses knew this feeling often. He...
Ordinary People
When God wants to achieve His eternal purposes, he looks for ordinary people who will be faithfully obedient. Look at a...
Don’t Run Out of Gas
Paul praying for the church at Ephesus....I kneel before the Father...I pray that out of his glorious riches...
For Such a Time as This
The present pandemic has temporarily changed our world. People seem to be experiencing many ranges of anxiety and fear. Yet I...
Being not Doing - the Roots of Obedience
We often think of obedience as “doing”. In raising my children, obedience usually involved doing or not doing...
Delighting in obedience
A children’s pastor once said “obedience is doing exactly what I am told, immediately, with a happy...
No Shame in God’s Kingdom
No one who hopes in you will ever be put to shame... Psalm 25:3 NIV Shame is a powerful, painful emotion in my moments...
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”,...