Posted on 02/05/2015 9:29:51 AM PST by RnMomof7
Ping
I’m going out on a limb and will say “Global Warming” since it seems to cause almost everything else.
Thank you.
Let Christ smite adherents of Mad Mo’.
That's what caused the so-called "Reformation."
Luther wasn't the first, as RF participants know very well. I'll bow out now and watch the bodies fly...
It was ignorance of Scripture that made the Reformation necessary. It was the recovery of the Scripture that made the Reformation possible. And it was the power of the Scripture that gave the Reformation its enduring impact, as the Holy Spirit brought the truth of His Word to bear on the hearts and minds of individual sinners, transforming them, regenerating them, and giving them eternal life.
Case in point:
Calvin's preaching was of one kind from beginning to end: he preached steadily through book after book of the Bible. He never wavered from this approach to preaching for almost twenty-five years of ministry in St. Peter's church of Geneva - with the exception of a few high festivals and special occasions. "On Sunday he took always the New Testament, except for a few Psalms on Sunday afternoons. During the week . . . it was always the Old Testament". The records show fewer than half a dozen exceptions for the sake of the Christian year. He almost entirely ignored Christmas and Easter in the selection of his text. To give you some idea of the scope of the Calvin's pulpit, he began his series on the book of Acts on August 25, 1549, and ended it in March of 1554. After Acts he went on to the epistles to the Thessalonians (46 sermons), Corinthians (186 sermons), pastorals (86 sermons), Galatians (43 sermons), Ephesians (48 sermons) - till May 1558. Then there is a gap when he is ill. In the spring of 1559 he began the Harmony of the Gospels and was not finished when he died in May, 1564. During the week of that season he preached 159 sermons on Job, 200 on Deuteronomy, 353 on Isaiah, 123 on Genesis and so on. One of the clearest illustrations that this was a self-conscious choice on Calvin's part was the fact that on Easter Day, 1538, after preaching, he left the pulpit of St. Peter's, banished by the City Council. He returned in September, 1541 - over three years later - and picked up the exposition in the next verse.-- excerpted from John Piper's The Divine Majesty Of The Word
The so called nobility were church officials who had gotten involved in politics. Luther was a great man who did what he had to do at the time.
Previously Catholic, now Lutheran. Never ran into anti-Protestant hate until FR. I’m proud that Martin nailed those theses to that door all those years ago!
I never knew about the anti-Protestant hatred until I read it on here.
As for the reformation in England, this paragraph could very accurately be rewritten:
The common thread, from Reformer to Reformer, was an undying commitment to the authority and sufficiency of Scripture, such that they were willing to sacrifice everything, including their own lives, the lives of innocent priests, monks and nuns, virtually all art, nearly all statues, hundreds of ancient Christian churches built as witness to the Glory of God, and most of the books in the great libraries of England, to get the Word of God as they interpreted it into the hands of the people."
http://www.catholicherald.co.uk/commentandblogs/2013/10/08/a-sad-reminder-of-the-art-lost-in-the-years-after-the-reformation/
"The Tate estimates we lost 90% of our religious art. It was probably even more than that. The destruction was on a scale that far outstrips the modern efforts of Islamist extremists. And it was not only art we lost, but also books and music."
Only Christ redeems..
Not the Church or any denomination of Church
Only Christ redeems..
Not the Church or any denomination of Church
....”The Church is a Church of all fallen men”...
Yes, ...forgiven sinners but sinners still....under the saving blood of Christ.
I think his ‘I Have a Dream’ thesis did the trick.
The sociopolitical reshaping of Europe as a result and the effect on government and governance, the resulting warfare (which was often a continuation of previous warfare), and the sometimes abrupt shift in national interests in numerous countries is a topic of endless fascination from so many angles. The process as it occurred in Scotland is of particular interest, IMHO.
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