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Showing posts with label Dietrich Bonhoeffer. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Dietrich Bonhoeffer. Show all posts
Friday, August 19, 2022

Listen to the Word of God: 62 Scripture passages that refute 'Christian' Nationalism - #6: Isaiah 1:11-18

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  Isaiah 1:11-18      New International Version 11 “The multitude of your sacrifices—     what are they to me?” says the Lord. “I have more ...
Sunday, January 3, 2021

Sermon Video: Speaking Truth to Power - The Martyrdom of John the Baptist, Mark 6:14-29

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  When confronted with a morally repugnant situation, John the Baptist spoke with clarity, unafraid of the power wielded by Herod Antipas. ...
Wednesday, December 16, 2020

The downward spiral of Bonhoeffer biographer Eric Metaxas

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At a recent rally, noted author Eric Metaxas, whose book on Bonhoeffer was a tremendous commercial success (Bonhoeffer: Pastor, Martyr, Prop...
Tuesday, September 15, 2020

God and Politics: Greater than, less than, or equal to?

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 I often speak and write about the danger of a too cozy relationship between the Church and political power, but this warning also begs a fu...
Friday, April 17, 2020

The theology of mandated/compulsory prayer in public schools is atrocious, its implementation would be worse.

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Prayer is not a "to whom it may concern" letter.  Prayer is a conversation with God on the part of those who have a  relationship ...
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Thursday, March 5, 2020

Timeless truths in Karl Barth's Barmen Declaration, written against the Nazi dominated Evangelical Church in Germany

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Written in 1934, the  Theological Declaration of Barmen  was the response of the Confessional Church, those Christians who had left the of...
Tuesday, January 22, 2019

Sermon Video: Paul appeals to Caesar - Acts 25

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Having newly been appointed governor of Judea, Festus visits Jerusalem to acquaint himself with the leadership there, and while doing so, is...
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Thursday, August 10, 2017

Assassinations, Pastor Jeffress, and Romans 13

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I've written often enough about the danger to the Church in America of an unequal marriage with politics and politicians, especially whe...
Tuesday, October 6, 2015

Sermon Video: The cost of discipleship - Luke 14:25-35

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Dietrich Bonhoeffer wrote an essay entitled, "the Cost of Discipleship" in which he decried the prevalence of "cheap grace...
Friday, July 17, 2015

"What part of, 'about that day or hour no one knows', are you not getting?" - God

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Speculation is endless, and perhaps inevitable, that the End Times are upon us.  This is nothing new, the history of the Church is full of ...
Tuesday, October 14, 2014

Sermon Video - "The battle is not yours, but God's" 2 Chronicles 20

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                After barely escaping his disastrous alliance with Ahab, King Jehoshaphat returns to Jerusalem where he faces rebuke from G...
Friday, April 25, 2014

The future and the hope of the Church is found in the poor

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In reading through A Testament to Freedom: The Essential Writings of Dietrich Bonhoeffer , I came across an insight about the Church fr...
Sunday, April 22, 2012

Sermon Video: "The LORD is my refuge" - Psalm 11

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David is confronted with two conflicting things that he knows to be true.  The wicked assault the righteous (as Saul did to him), and God is...
Wednesday, April 4, 2012

The Road to Freedom, April 9th, 1945

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On the monday morning, with the war only weeks from ending, Dietrich Bonhoeffer was executed by the Gestapo.  It marked the end of a decade ...