Solitude and Community with Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Repost of Episode 370

In this episode of the guided lectio divina podcast, we’re using selections from Life Together and Discipleship by German theologian Dietrich Bonhoeffer.

Fruit is always something full of wonder, something that has grown organically.  The fruit of the Spirit is a gift of which God is the sole source. Those bearing this fruit are as unaware of it as a tree is of its fruit.  The only thing they are aware of is the power of the one from whom they receive their life.

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Repost of Episode 369

In this episode of the guided lectio divina podcast, we’re using selections from Life Together and Discipleship by German theologian Dietrich Bonhoeffer.

We must be ready to allow ourselves to be interrupted by God….Only where hands are not too good for deeds of love and mercy in everyday helpfulness can the mouth joyfully and convincingly proclaim the message of God’s love and mercy.

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Repost of Episode 368

In this episode of the guided lectio divina podcast, we’re using selections from Life Together and Discipleship by German theologian Dietrich Bonhoeffer.

The road of the disciples is narrow.  It is easy to go past it; it is easy to miss it; it is easy to lose it, even for those who have already walked it.  It is hard to find.  The path is narrow indeed; there is a real danger of falling off on both sides.  To be called to do the extraordinary, but not to see and to know that one is doing it–that is a narrow road.

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Repost of Episode 367

In this episode of the guided lectio divina podcast, we’re using selections from Life Together and Discipleship by German theologian Dietrich Bonhoeffer.

Human beings have lost their own, God-like essence, which they had from God.  They live now without their essential purpose, that of being the image of God.  Human beings live without being truly human.  They must live without being able to live.  That is the paradox of our existence and the source of all our woes.

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Repost of Episode 366

In this episode of the guided lectio divina podcast, we’re using selections from Life Together and Discipleship by German theologian Dietrich Bonhoeffer.

It is God’s love for us that He not only gives us His Word but also lends us His ear.  So it is His work that we do for our brother when we learn to listen to him.

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Repost of Episode 365

In this episode of the guided lectio divina podcast, we’re using selections from Life Together and Discipleship by German theologian Dietrich Bonhoeffer.

We should listen with the ears of God that we may speak the Word of God.

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Repost of Episode 364

In this episode of the guided lectio divina podcast, we’re using selections from Life Together and Discipleship by German theologian Dietrich Bonhoeffer.

Real silence, real stillness, really holding one’s tongue comes only as the sober consequence of spiritual stillness.

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Episode 363

In this episode of the guided lectio divina podcast, we’re using selections from Life Together and Discipleship by German theologian Dietrich Bonhoeffer.

The mark of solitude is silence, as speech is the mark of community…Right speech comes out of silence, and right silence comes out of speech.

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Repost of Episode 362

In this episode of the guided lectio divina podcast, we’re using selections from Life Together and Discipleship by German theologian Dietrich Bonhoeffer.

One who wants fellowship without solitude plunges into the void of words and feelings, and one who seeks solitude without fellowship perishes in the abyss of vanity, self-infatuation, and despair.

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Repost of Episode 361

In this episode of the guided lectio divina podcast, we’re starting a new series on Solitude and Community using selections from Life Together and Discipleship by German theologian Dietrich Bonhoeffer.

Genuine prayer is not a deed, an exercise, a pious attitude.  Rather it is the request of the child to the heart of the Father.

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