Friends of Padre Steve’s World. As I get ready to head out to avoid the trick or treaters tonight I am posting an article from a couple of years ago. Not only is it Halloween, but it is also Reformation Day. This is the day when the young German Priest and Professor of Theology posted his 95 Theses on the door of the Schlosskirche in Wittenberg. That event changed the world forever. Luther is one of my heroes. He was a flawed and contradictory man but a man who changed the world. Peace, Padre Steve+
The Luther Rose: When they stand under the Cross Christian Hearts turn to Roses
“Grace is given to heal the spiritually sick, not to decorate spiritual heroes.” Martin Luther
When a young Priest and Theology Professor at the University of Wittenberg named Martin Luther posted the 95 Theses on the door of the Schlosskirche in Wittenberg it changed the course of Western as well as Church history. He also changed mine.
Martin Luther was the first of a series of theologians that helped make me what I am now. When my Church History professor Dr. Doyle Young and Systematic Theology professor Dr. David Kirkpatrick introduced me to Luther’s writings and his “Theology of the Cross it was earth shaking. It was his Theology of the Cross brought me to an incarnational understanding of the Christian faith because it is only through the Cross that we come to know God in…
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