"...do we realize that this cheap grace has turned back upon us like a boomerang? The price we are having to pay today in the shape of the collapse of ...

The truth of the matter is that the whole world has already been turned upside down by the work of Jesus Christ
~ Dietrich Bonhoeffer ~












The truth of the matter is that the whole world has already been turned upside down by the work of J...
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