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Bonhoeffer, Week 3: “Your Redemption Is Drawing Near” in Advent
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Jana Riess
In Week 3 of Advent, our Wednesday devotion from Bonhoeffer brings ever closer the question of redemption: what does it mean for us? Clearly, we’re looking for “something different from the anxious, petty, depressed, feeble Christian spirit that we see again and again” each December . . . but what does that look like? –JKR…
Bonhoeffer, Week 2: The “Wonder of All Wonders” in Advent
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Jana Riess
This is our second week of Advent Wednesday devotions from Dietrich Bonhoeffer’s God is in the Manger: Reflections on Advent and Christmas. Today’s theme is how God makes himself meek and lowly in order to be with us. Why can’t I follow his example? Why is humility so hard? –JKR Advent Week 2 God travels…
Bonhoeffer, Week 1: “Christ Is Standing at the Door” in Advent
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Jana Riess
As I did last year, I’m going to spend Wednesdays during Advent posting snippets from a devotional I compiled from some of the writings and sermons of Dietrich Bonhoeffer. Today, he preaches about the challenges of waiting for Jesus . . . and the many ways in which we fail to recognize him when he…
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