Dietrich Bonhoeffer on the Beattitudes
In Bonhoeffer’s classic work The Cost of Discipleship he begins his concluding thoughts on the beatitudes with the following words, Having reached the end of the beatitudes, we naturally ask if there is any place of this earth for the community which they describe. Clearly, there is one place, and only one, and that is […]
Did God Forsake Jesus on the Cross?
It is a claim that is heard many times from many pulpits often in during the Lord’s Supper. Matthew 27:45ff says, From noon until three in the afternoon darkness came over all the land. About three in the afternoon Jesus cried out in a loud voice, “Eli, Eli, lema sabachtani?” (which means, “My God, my […]