Pastor – Coach – Reader – Cook
I was talking to a student recently who showed a frustration with people who attend church. He said that they get dressed up all nice and act perfect, even looking down on those who do not attend church. They think they are better then the rest of us. But the thing is, they are just…
Continue reading ➞ Be Real, Be Vulnerable – Bonhoeffer’s Life Together (Walking with the Saints)
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)
There are many more fantastic passages from Bonhoeffer's classic on Christian community, Life Together, that I want to share. Here are a few on prayer: "As good and useful as our scruples may be about keeping our prayer pure and biblical, they must nevertheless not stifle the free prayer itself that is so necessary, for…
Continue reading ➞ Thoughts on Prayer – Bonhoeffer’s Life Together (Walking with 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
From Dietrich Bonhoeffer's classic work on community, Life Together: "Help must come from the outside; and it has come and comes daily and anew in the Word of Jesus Christ, bringing us redemption, righteousness, innocence, and blessedness. But God put this Word into the mouth of human beings so that it may be passed on…
Continue reading ➞ Listening When Others Speak a God Word – 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…
