Emphasis Preaching Journal

Dietrich Bonhoeffer, whose 100th birth anniversary we celebrate this year, wrote in Life Together, "The most experienced psychologist or observer of human nature knows infinitely less of the human heart than the simplest Christian who lives beneath the Cross of Jesus." This was an especially telling statement, since Bonhoeffer's father, Karl, was himself a noted professor of psychiatry! What Bonhoeffer was pointing to was the true and lasting wisdom that counts: wisdom about the ways of God.