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Dietrich Bonhoeffer was an amazing person who lived quite an extraordinary life. Its worth your time, if you haven't already, to read one of the available biographies about him. I recommend Charles Marsh's Strange Glory: The Life of Dietrich Bonhoeffer. Though I have to admit, Bonhoeffer comes across as kind of a spoiled brat in…
Continue reading ➞ #6 – The Cost of Discipleship by Dietrich Bonhoeffer (My 100 Favorite Books)
I am still wanting to share more of what I learned from Dietrich Bonhoeffer's amazing, classic book, Life Together. Maybe I want to keep sharing on it because I am mad no one made me read it in seminary. Or maybe I just really want others to read it. Most of the books on the…
Continue reading ➞ The Holiness of Work – Bonhoeffer’s Life Together (Listening to the Saints)
Some great quotes from Bonhoeffer's fantastic book Life Together on Jesus. I find both these quotes both incredibly challenging and relevant. God’s presence and help have been demonstrated for us in the life of Jesus Christ. It is in fact more important for us to know what God did to Israel, in God’s son Jesus…
Continue reading ➞ Walking with the Saints – Jesus – Life Together
For Christians the beginning of the day should not be burdened and haunted by the various kinds of concerns they face during the working day. The Lord stands above the new day, for God has made it. All the darkness and confusion of the night with its dreams gives way to the clear light of…
Continue reading ➞ The Beauty of Mornings – Bonhoeffer’s Life Together
I just finished reading Dietrich Bonhoeffer's classic work on Christian community, Life Together. It was fantastic, I wish I had read it ten years ago. This book should be must read for seminary students (why wasn't I forced to read it in seminary?). Over the next few weeks, I plan to share quotes from the…
Over the years I am learning to love "the classics". There is a reason why a certain book or film has stood the test of time. Case in point: Brother Lawrence's Practice of the Presence of God. There is more spiritual substance in this small (80 page) book than in much of what you might…
