100TH BIRTHDAY OF SOPHIE SCHOLL

             

            May 9, 2021 would have been the 100^th birthday of Sophie Scholl, a courageous German Christian Girl, AKA the woman who defied Hitler. She had many good Christian quotes that were biblical that it inspired me a lot.

           Three things I learn from Sophie Scholl are courage with perseverance, being prayerful and facing death when persecuted.

I will post 3 quotes from Sophie Scholl, 3 bible verses, with a short sermon from Dr Joel Beeke and will close with a prayer for Persecuted Christians.

   

 

“I'm still so remote from God that I don't even sense his presence when I pray. Sometimes when I utter God's name, in fact, I feel like sinking into a void. It isn't a frightening or dizzying sensation, it's nothing at all — and that's far more terrible. But prayer is the only remedy for it, and however many devils scurry around inside me, I shall cling to the rope God has thrown me in Jesus Christ, even if my numb hands can no longer feel it.”

 [As quoted in At the Heart of the White Rose: Letters and Diaries of Hans and Sophie Scholl (1987) edited by Inge Jens, translated by J. Maxwell Brownjohn; also in Voices of the Holocaust : Resistors, Liberation, Understanding (1997) by Lorie Jenkins McElroy]

Rejoice in hope, be patient in tribulation, be constant in prayer. – Romans 12 verse 12 (ESV)

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I've been thinking of a story from the Old Testament: Moses stood all day and all night with outstretched arms, praying to God for victory. And whenever he let down his arms, the enemy prevailed over the children of Israel. Are there still people today who never weary of directing all their thinking and all their energy, single-heartedly, to one cause? – Sophie Scholl

[PHOTO SOURCE: https://www.azquotes.com/quote/1120614]

https://lutherandcalvinbrigade914.blogspot.com/2015/05/sophie-scholl-on-moses-quote-of.html

 

1 Therefore, since we are surrounded by so great a cloud of witnesses, let us also lay aside every weight, and sin which clings so closely, and let us run with endurance the race that is set before us, ² looking to Jesus, the founder and perfecter of our faith, who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising the shame, and is seated at the right hand of the throne of God. – Hebrews 12: 1 – 2 (ESV)

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For I, the Lord your God, will hold your right hand, Saying to you, ‘Fear not, I will help you.’ – Isaiah 41:13 (NKJV)

[PHOTO SOURCE: http://wisdomandinstruction1.blogspot.com/2015/11/isaiah-4113-nkjv.html]

https://lutherandcalvinbrigade914.blogspot.com/2020/09/isaiah-12-hymn-of-praise.html

Many people think of our times as being the last before the end of the world. The evidence of horror all around us makes this seem possible. But isn't that an idea of only minor importance? Doesn't every human being, no matter which era he lives in, always have to reckon with being accountable to God at any moment? Can I know whether I'll be alive tomorrow morning? A bomb could destroy all of us tonight. And then my guilt would not be one bit less than if I perished together with the arth and the stars.

[PHOTO SOURCE: http://www.azquotes.com/quote/401410 & http://victimsfamiliesforthedeathpenalty.blogspot.com.au/2017/02/sophie-scholl-on-end-times-may-9-1921.html]

A Prayer for Persecuted Christians

(Based on Luke 21:12, written in honor of the International Day of Prayer for Persecuted Christians.)

God, you know
The plight of people far away
Oppressed by governments and vigilantes
In places
Where Christianity is an unpopular choice.

God, you knew
That the day would come here
When truth-telling would be despised
And siding with the oppressed
Part of the road less travelled.

Have mercy, O God,
Upon persecuted Christians there and here
Who are willing to suffer consequences
For speaking your Name
In word or in deed
In defiance or in advocacy.
Grant courage and strength
To all who would dare
To live their convictions out loud. Amen.

INTERNET SOURCE: https://www.umcdiscipleship.org/resources/a-prayer-for-persecuted-christians

   Pressing on During Discouraging Times - Dr. Joel Beeke Sermon

VIDEO SOURCE: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SjHe5ldwdOU

   

RELATED LINKS:

https://www.enkiquotes.com/sophie-scholl-quotes.html

https://seekingafterhisheart.com/2017/12/16/sophie-scholl-the-power-of-the-written-word/

http://news.coinupdate.com/germany-new-silver-commemorative-coins-honour-centenary-birthday-of-wwii-era-heroine-sophie-scholl/

http://victimsfamiliesforthedeathpenalty.blogspot.com/2014/02/sophie-scholl-white-rose-9-may-1921-to.html

https://lutherandcalvinbrigade914.blogspot.com/2016/02/in-loving-memory-of-sophie-scholl-9-may.html

OTHER LINKS:

https://www.desiringgod.org/articles/what-makes-a-woman-strong

https://lutherandcalvinbrigade914.blogspot.com/2020/01/missionary-jim-elliot-on-living-with.html

It Will Cost You Everything To Be A Disciple Of Jesus Christ! - Dr. Steve Lawson

https://lutherandcalvinbrigade914.blogspot.com/2019/01/it-will-cost-you-everything-to-be.html

GOING TO HEAVEN CHORAL MUSIC BY THE JAMAICANS

https://lutherandcalvinbrigade914.blogspot.com/2019/08/going-to-heaven-choral-music-by.html

Jesus Must Increase: A Prayer for the New Year

https://victimsfamiliesforthedeathpenalty.blogspot.com/2018/01/a-prayer-for-new-year.html

Prayers about the End Times

https://lutherandcalvinbrigade914.blogspot.com/2018/02/two-prayers-about-end-times.html

https://lutherandcalvinbrigade914.blogspot.com/2018/12/prayer-for-end-times.html

REVELATION 19: THE RETURN OF JESUS CHRIST

https://lutherandcalvinbrigade914.blogspot.com/2020/01/revelation-19-return-of-jesus-christ.html

DIETRICH BONHOEFFER ON CHEAP GRACE [QUOTES]

 

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“Cheap grace is the deadly enemy of our church. We are fighting today for costly grace.”

AUTHOR: Dietrich Bonhoeffer (German: [ˈdiːtʁɪç ˈboːnhœfɐ]; February 4, 1906 – April 9, 1945) was a German Lutheran pastor, theologian, dissident anti-Nazi and founding member of the Confessing Church. His writings on Christianity's role in the secular world have become widely influential, and many have labelled his book The Cost of Discipleship a modern classic.

Apart from his theological writings, Bonhoeffer became known for his staunch resistance to the Nazi dictatorship. He strongly opposed Hitler's euthanasia program and genocidal persecution of the Jews. He was also involved in plans by members of the Abwehr (the German Military Intelligence Office) to assassinate Adolf Hitler. He was arrested in April 1943 by the Gestapo and executed by hanging in April 1945 while imprisoned at a Nazi concentration camp, just 23 days before the German surrender.

BONHOEFFER IN ADVENT BY TIMOTHY GEORGE

http://www.firstthings.com/web-exclusives/2014/12/bonhoeffer-in-advent

JESUS AND HIS SUFFERING ON THE CROSS [QUOTE OF THE WEEK ~ SUNDAY FEBRUARY 1, 2015 TO SATURDAY FEBRUARY 7, 2014]

 

Dietrich Bonhoeffer on Cheap Grace

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“Jesus Christ has to suffer and be rejected. … Suffering and being rejected are not the same. Even in his suffering Jesus could have been the celebrated Christ. Indeed, the entire compassion and admiration of the world could focus on the suffering. Looked upon as something tragic, the suffering could in itself convey its own value, its own honor and dignity. But Jesus is the Christ who was rejected in his suffering. Rejection removed all dignity and honor from his suffering. It had to be dishonorable suffering. Suffering and rejection express in summary form the cross of Jesus. Death on the cross means to suffer and to die as one rejected and cast out. It was by divine necessity that Jesus had to suffer and be rejected. Any attempt to hinder what is necessary is satanic. Even, or especially, if such an attempt comes from the circle of disciples, because it intends to prevent Christ from being Christ. The fact that it is Peter, the rock of the church, who makes himself guilty doing this just after he has confessed Jesus to be the Christ and has been commissioned by Christ, shows that from its very beginning the church has taken offense at the suffering of Christ. It does not want that kind of Lord, and as Christ's church it does not want to be forced to accept the law of suffering from its Lord.”

[p. 84 of Discipleship and the Cross]

AUTHOR: Dietrich Bonhoeffer (German: [ˈdiːtʁɪç ˈboːnhœfɐ]; February 4, 1906 – April 9, 1945) was a German Lutheran pastor, theologian, dissident anti-Nazi and founding member of the Confessing Church. His writings on Christianity's role in the secular world have become widely influential, and many have labelled his book The Cost of Discipleship a modern classic.

Apart from his theological writings, Bonhoeffer became known for his staunch resistance to the Nazi dictatorship. He strongly opposed Hitler's euthanasia program and genocidal persecution of the Jews. He was also involved in plans by members of the Abwehr (the German Military Intelligence Office) to assassinate Adolf Hitler. He was arrested in April 1943 by the Gestapo and executed by hanging in April 1945 while imprisoned at a Nazi concentration camp, just 23 days before the German surrender.