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God Is on the Cross: Reflections on Lent and Easter is unavailable, but you can change that!

These 40 stirring devotions will guide and inspire readers as they move thematically through the weeks of Lent and Easter, encountering themes of prayerful reflection, self-denial, temptation, suffering, and the meaning of the cross. Passages from Dietrich Bonhoeffer’s letters and sermons provide special encouragement as readers prepare themselves spiritually for Holy Week and Easter Sunday....

So, you could not stay awake with me one hour?” [Jesus asked in Gethsemane] (Matt. 26:40b). That is the opposite of everything that the religious person expects from God. Human beings are called to share the suffering of God in a godless world. Therefore we must really live in the godless world and may not make the attempt somehow to conceal, to transfigure its godlessness religiously; we must live in a “worldly” way and in just this way
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