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God’s Loving Care and Human Suffering by Dietrich Bonhoeffer

This little-known sermon by Dietrich Bonhoeffer is a poignant take on human suffering and what God’s love means to us and to others. It was preached at a Harvest Festival in Berlin on October 4, 1931. “Your steadfast love is better than life” (Psalm 63:3) Two and a half millennia have passed since that ancient…
Meeting Christ at the Cross

We meet Christ at the cross. If we have not felt the sharp pain of the piercing cross into the core of our being, and experienced the disgraceful death that is found there; the dying exposed, before the scorn and scoffing of the whole world; then we have not known Christ.
“Kingship “- Sermon by George MacDonald

“Kingship”, a sermon by George MacDonald, was first published in 1867. The entire e-book is available on Project Gutenberg. As part of our “classics” series, we have shared excerpts of writings such as by Pilgram Marpeck and Janneken Muntsdorp. A reader recently recommended we share some of George MacDonald’s writings as well – do send…
Is “Critical Theory” against the gospel?

It’s particularly interesting when Christian and academic worlds intersect, particularly on a current socio-political issue like “critical race theory”. Across the Christian world, we see a lot of debate about what this really means and how it affects us as Christians. In fact, we hear a lot of allegations that it’s fundamentally “anti-gospel”. One particular…
Discipleship and Submission in the Church

When Jesus gathered His disciples to Him soon before the ascension, He said, “go and make disciples of all nations”. He didn’t say, “go and build churches” or even “go and establish My reign” – not that we are not to do these things, but we are to first and foremost make disciples and teach…
Christian Nonviolence Q&R (feat. Jon Carlson)

If your family was attacked, what would you do to protect your children and spouse? Is there a difference between state-sanctioned and personal violence? Does nonviolence mean doing nothing in the face of terrible evil? Pastor Jon Carlson created a Question and Response series on Christian Nonviolence looking at ten weighty questions. The full playlist…