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In The Cost of Discipleship, Dietrich Bonhoeffer writes, “. . . only he who believes is obedient, and only he who is obedient believes.” —Jim L. Wilson Bonhoeffer, The Cost of Discipleship, 63. John 14:23 (HCSB) Jesus answered, “If anyone loves Me, he will keep My word. My Father will love him, and We…

In The Cost of Discipleship, Dietrich Bonhoeffer writes, “Suffering, then, is the badge of true discipleship.” —Jim L. Wilson Bonhoeffer, The Cost of Discipleship, 91. Philippians 3:10 (HCSB) My goal is to know Him and the power of His resurrection and the fellowship of His sufferings, being conformed…

In Bonhoeffer: Pastor, Martyr, Prophet, Spy, Eric Metaxas writes, “The authority of a servant leader, as opposed to the authoritarianism of the mis-leader, came from God and was a leadership of serving those below oneself.” —Jim L. Wilson Metaxas, Bonhoeffer: Pastor, Martyr, Prophet, Spy, 269. Mark 10:42–45…

In Bonhoeffer: Pastor, Martyr, Prophet, Spy, Eric Metaxas writes, “Actions must follow what one believed, else one could not claim to believe it.” —Jim L. Wilson Metaxas, Bonhoeffer: Pastor, Martyr, Prophet, Spy, 240. Joshua 1:8 (HCSB) This book of instruction must not depart from your mouth; you are…

In The Cost of Discipleship, Dietrich Bonhoeffer writes, “Brotherly forgiveness makes room for the forgiveness of Jesus to enter into their common life. Instead of seeing their neighbours as men who have injured them, they see them as men for whom Christ has won forgiveness on the cross. They meet on…

In The Cost of Discipleship, Dietrich Bonhoeffer writes, “Costly grace is the gospel which must be sought again and again, the gift which must be asked for, the door at which a man must knock. Such grace is costly because it calls us to follow, and it is grace because it calls us to follow Jesus Christ.…

In his book, Bonhoeffer: Pastor, Martyr, Prophey, Spy Eric Metaxas reports that Bonhoffer said, “Do not try to make the Bible relevant. Its relevance is axiomatic.” —Jim L. Wilson Bonhoeffer: Pastor, Martyr, Prophey, Spy, 261 2 Timothy 3:16 (NKJV) “All Scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is…

It was this calling that Dietrich Bonhoeffer heard. In his book, The Cost of Discipleship, Bonhoeffer wrote, “When God calls a man, He bids him (to) come and die.” Bonhoeffer knew whereof he spoke. He was a rising academic, a promising theologian and a german pastor. His promising academic and ecclesiastical…

Dietrich Bonhoeffer (1906–1945) surprised and dismayed his parents when he decided by age of fourteen to become a theologian and later a pastor. When his older brother told him not to waste his life in such a "poor, feeble, boring, petty, bourgeois institution as the church", 14-year-old Dietrich replied:…

Bonhoeffer, in his book entitled Temptation, describes how this works: With irresistible power desire seizes mastery over the flesh.… It makes no difference whether it is sexual desire, or ambition, or vanity, or desire for revenge, or love of fame and power, or greed for money.… Joy in God is … extinguished…

If we despise our brother, our worship is unreal, and forfeits every divine promise. When we come before God with our hearts full of contempt, and unreconciled with our neighbors, we are, both individually and collectively, worshiping an idol.... Not just our own anger, but the fact that someone has…

Who stands fast? Only the man whose final standard is not his reason, his principles, his conscience, his freedom, or his virture, but who is ready to sacrifice all this when he is called to obedient and responsible action in faith and in exclusive allegienace to God--the responsible man, who tries to…

Nothing can be more cruel than the leniency which abandons others to their sin. Nothing can be more compassionate than the severe reprimand which calls another Christian in one’s community back from the path of sin. - Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Dietrich Bonhoeffer “Our being Christian today will be limited to two things: Prayer and righteous action among humanity”

As Bonhoeffer — whose father was a psychiatrist — put it, “In the presence of a psychiatrist I can only be a sick man; in the presence of a Christian brother I can dare to be a sinner.” Everybody’s Normal Till You Get to Know Them, John Ortberg, page 83

A community which cannot bear and cannot survive such a crisis, which insists upon keeping its illusion when it should be shattered, permanently loses in that moment the promise of Christian community. Sooner or later it will collapse. Every human wish dream that is injected into the Christian community…

Sermon for 3 Pentecost Matthew 7:21-29 God calls us to follow his will and build our house upon the rock of his truth and love rather than upon our own wisdom We might even begin to do God’s will and perform miracles, preached the truth and even cast out demons, but at that point have become false teachers…

Here are two interesting and thought-provoking illustrations on the theme of love: Bonhoeffer on Love and Marriage "Marriage is more than your love for each other. It has a higher dignity and power, for it is God's holy ordinance, through which he wills to perpetuate the human race till the end of time.…

The Barmen Declaration, 1934, was a call to resistance against the theological claims of the Nazi state. Almost immediately after Hitler's seizure of power in 1933, Protestant Christians faced pressure to "aryanize" the Church, expel Jewish Christians from the ordained ministry and adopt the Nazi "Führer…