by Danny Chisholm | Sep 25, 2018 | Opinion
Dietrich Bonhoeffer’s book, “Life Together,” though penned decades ago in a different time and culture, has meaning for the church today. “Only he who gives thanks for little things receives the big things. We prevent God from giving us the great spiritual gifts He...
by Joel Snider | Mar 28, 2018 | Opinion
I read about a woman in New York City who was interviewed as she departed church one Sunday. A reporter asked, “What is Easter?” The woman said, “Easter is when we throw off the robes of winter.” A critic of Christianity said, “Easter is...
by Matt Sapp | Apr 16, 2014 | Opinion
On April 9, 1945, after spending two years in a concentration camp, Lutheran pastor and theologian, Dietrich Bonhoeffer, was executed by the Nazis. Bonhoeffer was imprisoned for being involved in a plot to kill Adolf Hitler and couched his resistance to the Nazis as...
by David Hughes | Apr 18, 2013 | General
A sermon by David Hughes, Pastor, First Baptist Church, Winston Salem, N.C. Acts 5:12-32 About six years ago, I participated in a crusade in the Forsyth County prison system. My assignment was to preach in a prison block in the downtown Forsyth Detention Center. I...
by James L. Evans | Feb 10, 2012 | Opinion
On April 9 nearly 70 years ago, Dietrich Bonhoeffer was executed in a Nazi prison in Flossenberg, Germany. Known best for his book, “The Cost of Discipleship,” – a treatise on the Sermon on the Mount – Bonhoeffer’s real significance to the church...
