Church… Martin Luther is My Homeboy: The Legacy of Luther (Part 5) 28 Dec 201129 Dec 2011 The church I help pastor is full of people who probably have never heard of Martin Luther. Roughly 50% of our weekly attendance comes in the form of recovering addicts,…
Church History… Martin Luther Is My Homeboy: The Legacy of Luther (Part 2) 21 Dec 201122 Dec 2011 Timothy George states very well that "Protestantism was born out of the struggle for the doctrine of justification by faith alone" (Theology of the Reformers, 62). The most significant element…
Church History… Martin Luther Is My Homeboy: The Legacy of Luther (Part 1) 14 Dec 201115 Dec 2011 It is no coincidence that one of the slogans that came out of the Reformation era was "Sola Scriptura" (Scripture alone). It was the rediscovery of the Word of God…
Church History… Martin Luther Is My Homeboy: The Life of Luther (Part 5) 7 Dec 20118 Dec 2011 If ex-lax existed in Luther's day maybe the Reformation would never have happened. At least that's a logical conclusion to be drawn from what psychologist Erik Erikson essentially theorizes in his…
Church History… Martin Luther is My Homeboy: The Life of Luther (Part 4) 30 Nov 20111 Dec 2011 "The child of this ex-monk and this runaway nun will be the antichrist!" That is what many claimed when Katherine Von Bora, then wife of Martin Luther, became pregnant, only…
Asides… Martin Luther Is My Homeboy Series 23 Nov 201127 Dec 2011 Here is the place to catch the whole complete series of Luther is My Homeboy as it develops: Part 1: Introduction - Provocative and Biblical Part 2: The Life of…
Church History… Luther is My Homeboy: The Life of Luther (Part 3) 23 Nov 201124 Nov 2011 He never intended to start a revolution. He was just trying to have a healthy family chat. When Luther nailed his 95 Theses for Discussion to the church door in…
Church History… Luther Is My Homeboy: The Life of Luther (Part 2) 16 Nov 201117 Nov 2011 Rome, the great city! When Luther arrived in the winter of 1510-1511, the house of the church had become a den of evil. The humanitarian Erasmus when he visited Rome…
Church History… Luther Is My Homeboy: The Life of Luther (Part 1) 9 Nov 201110 Nov 2011 "Wir sein pettler hoc est verum" (We are beggars, this is true). At the end of his life Luther penned these final words. They were found at his very deathbed,…
Church History… Luther Is My Homeboy (Part 1): Provocative and Biblical 26 Oct 201127 Oct 2011 It has been said that a vulgar age needed a vulgar preacher. Such was the way people spoke of Martin Luther. Out of all the people in church history that…
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