A Month of Bonhoeffer
During a month when we are supposed to be focused on the birth of Christ and Christmas, I have decided to spend a month reading the works of Dietrich Bonhoeffer, a martyr I have admired for quite some time. I've used a devo book of his work for several years, but must admit this newfound fascination for anything Bonhoeffer was sparked by Glenn Beck's 12-3-10 program where his guest was author Eric Metaxas, who wrote Bonhoeffer: Pastor, Martyr, Prophet, Spy. So, I went to the library and picked up a couple of Bonhoeffer's books and found my books by him and have decided to carry them with me to read and study as much as possible. My initial book for this project, so fittingly his last work, is Bonhoeffer's Meditating on the Word . It's amazing! We always hear about meditating on Scripture, but hardly ever do we hear someone explain exactly how to do it, or give concrete examples of what to do. Bonhoeffer is wholeheartedly filling in this gap. Having been a Christi...