Today I spoke at the National Prayer Breakfast in Wash, DC.  During my speech I gave the President a copy of my Bonhoeffer book…  Here’s the article from WORLD.

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Please watch it!  My talk begins 35 mins in and ends with me leading the 3,500 assembled in singing “Amazing Grace”.  No kidding.

Guess who took this photo below?  None other than VP Joseph P. Biden!  I wonder how many photos there are of U.S. President’s taken by U. S. Vice Presidents?

I then traveled to Wiesbaden, where I met the sons of two heroes of the German resistance:  the son of Fabian von Schlabrendorf, who planted the bomb on Hitler’s plane; and the son of Paul von Hase, Bonhoeffer’s uncle, who was the military Commandant over Berlin.  Both figure prominently in my book.    I next traveled to Stuttgart, where I met Bill Hybels, who interviewed me in front of 8,000 German-speaking Christians at a Willow Creek conference, and who said the book was “one of the ten most important books” he had ever read.  The photo shows me in front of my publisher, SCM Haenssler’s booth there, still stunned by Hybel’s statement, and also by being on a poster with Gordon MacDonald and Andy Stanley!   I also met the great-great grandson of Kaiser Wilhelm, who is a Lutheran pastor in Germany!   Later  I met the German translator of my book, Friedemann Lux, and Prof. Rainer Mayer, the Bonhoeffer scholar who oversaw the book’s publication in Germany.   Das war aber eine Reise!