For Bonhoeffer, Christ crucified, and the cross of the Christian life were not of peripheral importance, but foundational.
While we often talk about our growth, our progress, and what we are doing for the kingdom of God, the reality is that any goodness in a Christian does not originate in us.
Your exhaustion may not be a sign of weakness of faith. It may be the fruit of enthusiasm. It is Lent. Fast from your fever. Embrace the exhaustion. Curb your inner enthusiast and cling to Christ.

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God does not combat the impending armies of Satan with might and power, but with the weakness of a babe.
Instead of defining the true church in the way of the law, Augustine approaches the issue pastorally in the way of the gospel.
If someone confesses their sins into my ears, I have no options but to forgive them in the name of Christ.
Where Erasmus saw fear and collapse, Luther saw the never-ending comfort of Christ and his gospel.
When we read this chapter, we find that we are actually shaped by the word.
This creed is no mere squabble over words. Salvation is on the line.
They cannot know that I am already a father, but, this side of eternity, I won’t ever meet my child because of a miscarriage.
To be lukewarm is to take refuge in your own works apart from the works of God.
Christ triumphantly brings about a new day, an eighth day, the first day of a new week.
If sin is not “imputed” or “reckoned to” the sinner then who is it reckoned to? The good news is that it’s reckoned to God