livestream

,

Dietrich Bonhoeffer's Religionless Christianity - part 12: Getting Caught up in the Way of Jesus

,

While in the Tegel Prison in Berlin awaiting trial for participating in a plot to kill Hitler, Lutheran pastor Dietrich Bonhoeffer began to contemplate a future for Christianity and the church in a world with science, secularism, and world wars. His idea were formulated in different letters to his pastor friend Eberhard Bethge and compiled with all his prison writings in Letters from Prison.

Part twelve - Finally getting to some examples of what it looks like to be Christian in a godless world, we are called to get caught up in Jesus’ way.

By Pastor Lars Hammar

,

Dietrich Bonhoeffer's Religionless Christianity - part 11: Living in a Godless World

,

While in the Tegel Prison in Berlin awaiting trial for participating in a plot to kill Hitler, Lutheran pastor Dietrich Bonhoeffer began to contemplate a future for Christianity and the church in a world with science, secularism, and world wars. His idea were formulated in different letters to his pastor friend Eberhard Bethge and compiled with all his prison writings in Letters from Prison.

Part 11 - What is the difference between the Christian life and the pagan life? It isn't getting things from the gods, or turning to them for favors. It's that the Christian suffers with the God who grieves with us.

By Pastor Lars Hammar

,

Dietrich Bonhoeffer's Religionless Christianity - part 10: The Working Hypothesis

,

While in the Tegel Prison in Berlin awaiting trial for participating in a plot to kill Hitler, Lutheran pastor Dietrich Bonhoeffer began to contemplate a future for Christianity and the church in a world with science, secularism, and world wars. His idea were formulated in different letters to his pastor friend Eberhard Bethge and compiled with all his prison writings in Letters from Prison.

Part ten - In the boldest terms yet used, Bonhoeffer says that people must learn to manage our lives without God, and not expect God's actions, yet know that it is before that weak God who demands us live without him that we stand.

By Pastor Lars Hammar

Audio Block
Double-click here to upload or link to a .mp3. Learn more
,

Dietrich Bonhoeffer's Religionless Christianity - part 9: Emergency Exits

,

While in the Tegel Prison in Berlin awaiting trial for participating in a plot to kill Hitler, Lutheran pastor Dietrich Bonhoeffer began to contemplate a future for Christianity and the church in a world with science, secularism, and world wars. His idea were formulated in different letters to his pastor friend Eberhard Bethge and compiled with all his prison writings in Letters from Prison.

Part nine - As science and secularism continue to make people content to live their daily lives without any reference to God, Christian theologians have been trying to find space for God in things beyond people's lives, or in trying to create angst about sin and death in order to provide a cure for. But Bonhoeffer notes that these "emergency exits" have failed to make inroads, and dishonest to the Gospel.

By Pastor Lars Hammar

,

Dietrich Bonhoeffer's Religionless Christianity - part 8: Re-imagining Redemption

,

While in the Tegel Prison in Berlin awaiting trial for participating in a plot to kill Hitler, Lutheran pastor Dietrich Bonhoeffer began to contemplate a future for Christianity and the church in a world with science, secularism, and world wars. His idea were formulated in different letters to his pastor friend Eberhard Bethge and compiled with all his prison writings in Letters from Prison.

Part eight - After deconstructing the popular idea of "redemption"in Christianity, Bonhoeffer begins to re-imagine what the word might mean in a world where people no longer believe in a literal hell with an eternal punishment that they need to be rescued from.

By Pastor Lars Hammar

,

Dietrich Bonhoeffer's Religionless Christianity - part 7: On Redemption

,

While in the Tegel Prison in Berlin awaiting trial for participating in a plot to kill Hitler, Lutheran pastor Dietrich Bonhoeffer began to contemplate a future for Christianity and the church in a world with science, secularism, and world wars. His idea were formulated in different letters to his pastor friend Eberhard Bethge and compiled with all his prison writings in Letters from Prison.

Part seven - Christian theologians have emphacized redemption as a rescuing from this world to the next, but, Bonhoeffer argues, that goes against the Old Testament, and ultimately Jesus. The Christian has no escape from earthly difficulties.

By Pastor Lars Hammar

,

Dietrich Bonhoeffer's Religionless Christianity - part 6: On keeping people in immature faith

,

While in the Tegel Prison in Berlin awaiting trial for participating in a plot to kill Hitler, Lutheran pastor Dietrich Bonhoeffer began to contemplate a future for Christianity and the church in a world with science, secularism, and world wars. His idea were formulated in different letters to his pastor friend Eberhard Bethge and compiled with all his prison writings in Letters from Prison.

Part six - Philosophers, psychologists, and unscrupulous pastors try to create anxiety and worry in happy people's lives in order to induce them to need them, equating faith with an immature stage of personal development.

By Pastor Lars Hammar

,

Dietrich Bonhoeffer's Religionless Christianity - part 5: On Secularity and Science

,

While in the Tegel Prison in Berlin awaiting trial for participating in a plot to kill Hitler, Lutheran pastor Dietrich Bonhoeffer began to contemplate a future for Christianity and the church in a world with science, secularism, and world wars. His idea were formulated in different letters to his pastor friend Eberhard Bethge and compiled with all his prison writings in Letters from Prison.

Part five - Bonhoeffer reflects on how the secular world no longer operates with God as part of the equation, and people no longer turn to the question of God when dealing with problems.

By Pastor Lars Hammar

,

Dietrich Bonhoeffer's Religionless Christianity - part 4: Desire and Loyalty

,

While in the Tegel Prison in Berlin awaiting trial for participating in a plot to kill Hitler, Lutheran pastor Dietrich Bonhoeffer began to contemplate a future for Christianity and the church in a world with science, secularism, and world wars. His idea were formulated in different letters to his pastor friend Eberhard Bethge and compiled with all his prison writings in Letters from Prison.

Part four - A short look at his reflections on missing his fiance, Maria, coping with not seeing her, and debating the selfishness of allowing himself to not think of her to avoid the pain of missing her.

By Pastor Lars Hammar

,

Dietrich Bonhoeffer's Religionless Christianity - part 3: God as the Stop Gap

,

While in the Tegel Prison in Berlin awaiting trial for participating in a plot to kill Hitler, Lutheran pastor Dietrich Bonhoeffer began to contemplate a future for Christianity and the church in a world with science, secularism, and world wars. His idea were formulated in different letters to his pastor friend Eberhard Bethge and compiled with all his prison writings in Letters from Prison.

Part three - Bonhoeffer confronts directly one of the most common of Christian apologetics: the idea of God as the stop gap (or "god of the gaps" as atheists often call it). Instead of defending God's existence from the negative, and arguing that God exists *beyond* knowledge and experience, he argues we must move God back to the center of life.

By Pastor Lars Hammar

,

Dietrich Bonhoeffer's Religionless Christianity - part 2: On Speaking of God

,

While in the Tegel Prison in Berlin awaiting trial for participating in a plot to kill Hitler, Lutheran pastor Dietrich Bonhoeffer began to contemplate a future for Christianity and the church in a world with science, secularism, and world wars. His idea were formulated in different letters to his pastor friend Eberhard Bethge and compiled with all his prison writings in Letters from Prison.

Part two - a discussion about how one is to speak of God in non-religious terms, and how Bonhoeffer has become more hesitant to talk religious jargon with religious people, and how he finds God in the center of our world, not in the space beyond human knowledge.

By Pastor Lars Hammar

,

Dietrich Bonhoeffer's Religionless Christianity - part 1

,

While in the Tegel Prison in Berlin awaiting trial for participating in a plot to kill Hitler, Lutheran pastor Dietrich Bonhoeffer began to contemplate a future for Christianity and the church in a world with science, secularism, and world wars. His idea were formulated in different letters to his pastor friend Eberhard Bethge and compiled with all his prison writings in Letters from Prison. By Pastor Lars Hammar

Episode 1: introduction to the Bonhoeffer and his time in prison, his theology and worldview.

,

Human Sexuality Study part 4 - Specifics of the 2009 ELCA statement

,

A conversation and study of how ELCA Lutherans understand human sexuality, both in the Bible, and in the 2009 Social Statements on Human Sexuality. Part four, we take a look at some of the specific conclusions of the statement regarding such things as marriage, cohabitation, promiscuity, and same-sex relationships.

To download and read the official statement: https://www.elca.org/Faith/Faith-and-Society/Social-Statements/Human-Sexuality?fbclid=IwAR1QNOcN1yNP7kN1edfTFZyrs51-HMHHtMzEP4vijIGYQ8TRG3YFNMM_HQ8

Human Sexuality part 3 - Introduction to the 2009 ELCA social statement

A conversation and study of how ELCA Lutherans understand human sexuality, both in the Bible, and in the 2009 Social Statements on Human Sexuality. Part three, this session begins with the background to the statement, Lutheran perspectives on the discussion of human sexuality, and the introduction of the statement itself.

To download and read the official statement, click here.

Human Sexuality Study part 2 - varied views in the New Testament

A conversation and study of how ELCA Lutherans understand human sexuality, both in the Bible, and in the 2009 Social Statements on Human Sexuality. Part two of four classes, this session focuses on some of the teachings of the new testament, showing the turn from Jesus and Paul to the harsh legalism of the Deutero-Pauline Epistles (ones with Paul's name but not written by Paul) and the Pastoral Epistles.

To download and read the official statement click here:

,

Praying the Ultimate Questions - When Have I Experienced God?

,

A guided prayer meditation to help you bring your ultimate questions to God in prayer. You don't have to either feel the need to hide your questions from God, or walk from faith because of them. Bring them to God in prayer and own them to God in the presence of the Holy Spirit. Our big question is: When have I experienced God?

By Pastor Lars Hammar

Original music by Stuart Oliver: https://www.oldbisbeerecords.com

Based on the book "50 Ways to Pray" by Teresa Blythe. https://teresablythe.net/50-ways-to-pray/

,

Sitting in the Not Knowing - A guided meditation

,

We approach faith at Lord of Grace with an open mind, acknowledging that we are following God into an unknown future, that we don't have all the answers, and that that is OK because God is with us in this journey. Take some time to relax, clear your mind, and just sit in a place where you own up to now knowing the answers, and let God fill your heart in that space.

By Pastor Lars Hammar

Original music by Stuart Oliver: https://www.oldbisbeerecords.com/

,

Praying the Ultimate Questions - Where is Your Faith Now?

,

A guided prayer meditation to help you bring your ultimate questions to God in prayer. You don't have to either feel the need to hide your questions from God, or walk from faith because of them. Bring them to God in prayer and own them to God in the presence of the Holy Spirit. Our big question is: Where is your faith now?

By Pastor Lars Hammar

Original music by Stuart Oliver: https://www.oldbisbeerecords.com

Based on the book "50 Ways to Pray" by Teresa Blythe. https://teresablythe.net/50-ways-to-pray/

,

Praying the Ultimate Questions - What do I care most about?

,

A guided prayer meditation to help you bring your ultimate questions to God in prayer. You don't have to either feel the need to hide your questions from God, or walk from faith because of them. Bring them to God in prayer and own them to God in the presence of the Holy Spirit.

By Pastor Lars Hammar

Original music by Stuart Oliver

Based on the book "50 Ways to Pray" by Teresa Blythe. https://teresablythe.net/50-ways-to-pray/