“And if we answer the call to discipleship, where will it lead us? What decisions and partings will it demand? To answer this question we shall have to go to him, for only he knows the answer. Only Jesus Christ, who bids us to follow him, knows the journey’s end. But we do know that … More Where Does Discipleship Lead Us?
Sunday Musings “In a Christian community, everything depends upon whether each individual is an indispensable link in a chain. Only when even the smallest link is securely interlocked is the chain unbreakable. A community which allows unemployed members to exist within it will perish because of them. It will be well, therefore, if every member … More Bonhoeffer Speaks on Unemployment and the Church
Thursday is for Discipleship My old copy of Bonhoeffer’s Letters and Papers from Prison disintegrated and my daughter graciously purchased another copy for me. As I reread what this brother endured for the cross, it affirms once again the conclusion that it is times of duress not peace, it is turmoil not calm, that produces … More Wearing Out Old Books and Relearning Old Truth
Sunday Musings “The real trouble is that the pure Word of Jesus has been overlaid with so much human ballast–burdensome rules and regulations, false hopes and consolations–that it has become extremely difficult to make a genuine decision for Christ.” Dietrich Bonhoeffer, The Cost of Discipleship, (p. 35) Praying that the Word that was preached all … More The Burdensome Ballast of Human Rules on the Gospel
Friday is for Heart Songs “We must be ready to allow ourselves to be interrupted by God. … it is part of the discipline of humility that we must not spare our hand where it can perform a service and that we do not assume that our schedule is our own to manage, but allow … More Learning About Time from Bonhoeffer
Sunday Musings Choose a topic that will never go out of date. Be a person whose life embodies the topic. Think and pray hard about the topic. Be willing to sacrifice everything for the topic. Write a great first paragraph. Sustain the power of your first paragraph for the length of your book. Finish the … More How to Write a Book that Will be Read for 100 Years
Friday is for Heart Songs This is an important post from John Piper on one of the cultural pressure points against the gospel in our time–homosexual marriage. Will our age go the way of ancient Israel and capitulate to the gods of this age or will we stand in sacrificial love for those who will … More Homosexual Marriage Turns a Church to Apostasy
Weekend Links If there is one link you click on here, let it be the first. Eric Metaxas gave an outstanding and bold address at the National Prayer breakfast that truly should not be missed. As always, I don’t vouch for all these links except to say that they are all thought provoking and that’s … More Eric Metaxes; T.D.Jakes; James MacDonald; The Elephant Room; G.K. Chesterton and much more
Thursday is for Discipleship Have you ever noticed that some Christians are annoying? Of course you have. Have you ever noticed that sometimes you are that annoying Christian? I hope you have. I used to tell people (jokingly) in our church that we purposefully put one annoying believer in every small group, just to give … More Bonhoeffer’s Take on Christian Unity
Thursday is for Discipleship Six years before he was imprisoned by the Nazi’s, Dietrich Bonhoeffer penned these words: “When Christ calls a man, he bids him come and die.” It was passages like Matthew 10:37-39; Mark 8:34-38; Luke 14:25-27 that forced Bonhoeffer to the conclusion that would later cost him his life. Questions: What part … More The Place of “Dying” in Discipleship
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