Luther stood not on the pronouncements of popes, or the decisions of councils, or the winds of popular opinion, but on “that word above all earthly powers.”Av John Piper

David Mathis | What do soldiers, farmers, athletes, and Christians have in common? We endure, through discomfort, to get the reward.Av David Mathis

October 27, 2024 Let Your Kingdom Come Acts 1:6-14 Jacob Smith preaching, Acts Series: The Acts of the Risen King Jesus Click here to listenAv Taylor Allen

Scott Hubbard | What if the worst happens? In Romans 8, the apostle Paul takes us to our darkest fears and inscribes above them all, “More than conquerors through him who loved us.”Av Scott Hubbard

Faithful parents and teachers speak to kids on their level, but they also aim to create new concepts, new structures of thought, new ways of viewing reality.Av John Piper

David Mathis | What do soldiers, farmers, athletes, and Christians have in common? We endure, through discomfort, to get the reward.Av David Mathis

Katharina married Martin Luther to survive as a runaway nun, but their marriage proved to be a model in a time when “pastor’s wife” was a new role.Av Kristin Tabb

The Reformation required more than theological giants. It also demanded organizational geniuses.Av Betsy Howard

He took the lead role in writing the Heidelberg Catechism, one of the most ringing affirmations of faith in all of Christian history.Av Thomas S. Kidd

Theodore Beza gave form to what we now call Calvinism by explaining and defending the biblical doctrines Calvin had rediscovered.Av Shawn Wright

Lady Jane Grey was a teenage victim of social and political conspiracy, beheaded at seventeen for her faith. But her life is far from a tragedy.Av Scott Hubbard

German Reformer Balthasar Hübmaier had a powerful voice, a mightier pen, and a life that echoed his Reformed and Baptistic beliefs, even under torture.Av Obbie Tyler Todd

Greg Morse | No matter how long you have lived in despair, nor how dark your heart has become, the dungeon that holds you has an escape.Av Greg Morse

Robert Estienne was the premier printer of the Protestant cause. He put Reformation doctrine and the Bible itself into the hands of ordinary people.Av Matt Crutchmer

David Mathis | God invites us not only to trust him, fear him, and obey him, but to enjoy him. For as we do, our happiness is full in him, and his glory is great in us.Av David Mathis

David Mathis | God invites us not only to trust him, fear him, and obey him, but to enjoy him. For as we do, our happiness is full in him, and his glory is great in us.Av David Mathis

The key to John Calvin’s life: he recovered and embodied a passion for the absolute reality and majesty of God.Av John Piper

David Mathis | When your eyes first open, what’s your first priority? Your burning need each day is to get your soul happy in God.Av David Mathis

John Knox feared the face of no man, which equipped him to bring reform to his homeland in the Highlands.Av Sinclair Ferguson

Conrad Grebel is known as a “radical Reformer” — a leader who took the movement one step further by insisting on separating church from state.Av Abigail Dodds

October 20, 2024 Come, Holy Spirit Acts 1:4-5 Jacob Smith preaching, Acts Series: The Acts of the Risen King Jesus Click here to listenAv Taylor Allen

Greg Morse | Our lives often take strange turns. How good to know, then, that God can turn all the unplanned oddities of your life for your good and his glory.Av Greg Morse

Without Zwingli, there would have been no Reformation in Zurich. Without Heinrich Bullinger, it would not have lasted.Av David Mathis

Hellen Stirke did not debate theology, write a treatise, or preach to hundreds. She just staked her soul on Scripture — and paid for it with her life.Av Tony Reinke

Jon Bloom | Christians can only be so happy in this world. Even our best seasons are accompanied by groanings for a home beyond this world.Av Jon Bloom

He never preached a sermon and never authored a theological treatise. He was a Reformer by accident — or, better, by common grace.Av Rick Segal

If the Reformation could be summarized in three men, then alongside Martin Luther and John Calvin would be the Swiss giant, Huldrych Zwingli.Av Michael A.G. Haykin

John Piper | Faithful parents and teachers speak to kids on their level, but they also aim to create new concepts, new structures of thought, new ways of viewing reality.Av John Piper

Faithful parents and teachers speak to kids on their level, but they also aim to create new concepts, new structures of thought, new ways of viewing reality.Av John Piper

One Lord, one faith, one stake. The story of two great Reformers burned at the same stake.Av Scott Hubbard

Though once utterly enchanted with Catholic piety, William Farel would be used by God to liberate countless thousands from the bondage of Roman superstition.Av Ryan Griffith

Thomas Cranmer led England from Roman Catholicism and shaped England’s theology perhaps more than any other Reformer.Av Matthew Westerholm

October 13, 2024 The Word of Life, the Word of Judgement Jeremiah 1-4 Coty Pinckney preaching, Jeremiah Series: The Word of Life, the Word of Judgment Click here to listenAv Taylor Allen

To some a queen, to others a heretic, Marguerite de Navarre used her royal power to win others to Reformed faith — and then protect them under persecution.Av Tanner Swanson

What Marie Dentière lacked in feminine modesty or humility for her day, she made up for with unrivaled zeal for the gospel.Av Adrien Segal

David Mathis | Christian, how often do you marvel that you have the Spirit of God in you? God with us has become God in us — empowering us, interceding for us, and testifying to us.Av David Mathis

He was the German glue of the Protestant movement — the unifier between the diverse strands of Reformation.Av Marshall Segal

William Tyndale gave his life so British commoners could know the Bible — not in Latin, but in their own mother tongue.Av John Piper

Thomas Becon brought the Reformation from the churches to the kitchens, courts, shipyards, and battlefields. All of life is a stage for worshiping God.Av Brian Hanson

Scott Hubbard | Our Lord calls us to look within. Yet alongside healthy introspection are a dozen dangers — paths that will yield not more self-knowledge but rather more anxiety and fear.Av Scott Hubbard

After fifteen years of preaching Catholic doctrine, Peter Martyr awoke to the gospel, fled his home, and championed the Reformation across Europe.Av Chris Castaldo

While searching for the doctrine of transubstantiation in Scripture, he discovered the gospel instead.Av Ryan Griffith

October 6, 2024 The Acts of the Risen King Jesus Acts 1:1-3 Jacob Smith preaching, Acts Series: The Acts of the Risen King Jesus Click here to listenAv Taylor Allen

Greg Morse | One day, every soul from every corner of creation will stand trial before the Judge of all. When that day comes, and your records are read, what will your plea be?Av Greg Morse