Christoph Friedrich Blumhardt

Christoph Friedrich Blumhardt

Christoph Friedrich Blumhardt (1842-1919) was born in Möttlingen, Germany in 1842.  As his father, Johann Christoph Blumhardt, had done before him, he took university training pointing toward a Reformed pastorate. However, he became disillusioned with the church and theology and so decided simply to return home to Bad Boll and act as a helper there. Upon his father’s death, then, he took over as house-father and continued the work until his own death in 1919.

Free Ebooks by Christoph Friedrich Blumhardt

Action in Waiting

Action In Waiting

By Christoph Friedrich Blumhardt

The seventeen essays in this free ebook give a fresh look at the spiritual life as "active expectation" of God's kingdom breaking into this world. This kingdom is no longer relegated to some afterlife, but takes effect today.

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The Hidden Christ: Taking the Gospel into the World

The Hidden Christ

By Christoph Friedrich Blumhardt

How are Christians to bring the gospel to the world? After centuries of misguided crusades, how can we rediscover mission as Jesus understood it? Must people embrace Christianity to know Christ and his liberation?

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Jesus is the Victor

Jesus is the Victor

By Christoph Friedrich Blumhardt

If you ever doubt that Jesus has power to change the world, or despair of seeing his victory come to fruition in your own personal life, you should read this free ebook.

Lift Thine Eyes: Evening Prayers for Every Day of the Year

Lift Thine Eyes

By Christoph Friedrich Blumhardt

Christian prayers of comfort, courage, and hope for every day of the year, each with a corresponding verse from the Old or New Testament. The peace that flows from Blumhardt's prayers comes from an unshakable conviction that God's kingdom is indeed…

Now Is Eternity: Comfort and Wisdom for Difficult Hours

Now Is Eternity

By Johann Christoph Blumhardt and Christoph Friedrich Blumhardt

A collection of seventy short but striking Christian meditations to battle weariness and despair.

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Thoughts on Children

Thoughts on Children

By Johann Christoph Blumhardt and Christoph Friedrich Blumhardt

In this little book two fathers share thoughts and helpful practical advice on the essence of bringing up children.

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Articles by Christoph Friedrich Blumhardt

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Is God Still Dead?

By Christoph Friedrich Blumhardt

God is of no real importance, even for people with religion, because religion has become more important than God.

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I Send You Out

By Christoph Friedrich Blumhardt

When Christians only serve themselves and their own opinions, unable to reach beyond themselves to the creation of God, then God will light his light in so-called people of the world.

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Is Your Heart Police Headquarters?

By Christoph Friedrich Blumhardt

hrisians should not keep a drawer of police files on each other, or anyone else. Excerpts from Thy Kingdom Come by the Blumhardts.

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Light Your Lamp for Advent

By Christoph Friedrich Blumhardt

A meditation for Advent by a German pastor from the turn of the century.

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The Kingdom is Now

By Christoph Friedrich Blumhardt

I want to proclaim to you what God has put into my heart: God's kingdom is a living reality, a rulership that impacts the here and now and even today is at hand – closer at hand than we may think.

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Riddled with Evil

By Christoph Friedrich Blumhardt

Even if our age has become riddled with evil, even if death runs rampant on the earth, we will not accept these as final facts. Our battle cry is: "Jesus is the victor."