Bill Pratt | December 18, 2011
As we close out 2011, we will re-publish the top ten posts of 2011. These are the posts written during 2011 that garnered the most page views during the year. Over the next 2 weeks, we will count down from number ten to number one, finishing out the year. I hope you will enjoy these [...]
Bill Pratt | December 18, 2011
Post Author: Bill Pratt The heretical German Christians, in 1933, galvanized Dietrich Bonhoeffer and another German pastor, Martin Niemoller, into action. They produced a statement that spelled out their grievances with the German Christians. The statement contained the following four points: First, it declared that its signers would rededicate themselves to the Scriptures and to [...]
Bill Pratt | December 16, 2011
Post Author: Bill Pratt In part 2 we discovered the “German Christian” movement, a group that wanted to conform Christianity to German nationalism. In part 3, we complete our survey of this heretical campaign. Again, we draw heavily from Eric Metaxas’s biography of Dietrich Bonhoeffer. Recall that the German Christians sought to radically reinterpret and [...]
Bill Pratt | December 15, 2011
Post Author: Bill Pratt In part 1 we saw the plans that the National Socialists had for the German Lutheran Church during the 1930′s and 1940′s. In parts 2 and 3 we will review how the church reacted to the attempted Nazification of their doctrines and beliefs. Again, we draw heavily from Eric Metaxas’s excellent biography [...]
Darrell | December 13, 2011
Post Author: Darrell I have long cherished the story of the Lord’s appearance to Moses in the Burning Bush from Exodus Chapter 3. I am sure you know the story. Moses left Egypt and set up his home in Midian. The Lord appeared to him in the midst of the burning bush in an effort [...]
Bill Pratt | December 9, 2011
Post Author: Bill Pratt One of the most important historical facts about the life of Dietrich Bonhoeffer was his reaction to the Nazi take-over of the Lutheran state church in Germany in the 1930′s. Eric Metaxas, in his magnificent biography of Bonhoeffer, devotes an entire chapter to Nazi theology. The program developed by the Nazis to [...]
Bill Pratt | December 7, 2011
Post Author: Bill Pratt Well, yes, of course, but that’s not the view of all pastors who call themselves Christian. I just finished Eric Metaxas’ brilliant biography of Dietrich Bonhoeffer, and I was struck by Bonhoeffer’s view of the liberal churches in Manhattan during the early 1930′s. In a fascinating season of Bonhoeffer’s life, he visited New [...]
Bill Pratt | December 5, 2011
Post Author: Bill Pratt In the internet world we live in, there are literally hundreds of millions of people making claims about every subject under the sun. In the past, when the internet did not exist, there were far fewer voices making claims in a public fashion. A person wanting to make public claims had [...]
