Reformation Week Reflection #2

John Calvin: …justification by faith [is] the first and keenest subject of controversy…Wherever the knowledge of it is taken away, the glory of Christ is extinguished. And later: How comes it that we are “carried about with so many strange doctrines” (Hebrews 13:9)? Because the excellence of Christ is not perceived by us. So of […]

Just what did Luther say?

Yesterday Elizabeth asked me what Martin Luther said in his 95 theses (declarations) to the church in Wittenberg. You may read the theses here. The statements were his attempt to bring the church to a point of repentance for its corruption of the truth of the gospel — that man is saved by grace alone, […]

Reformation Week Reflection #1

In honor of Tuesday being Reformation Day (the 489th anniversary of the posting of Martin Luther’s 95 theses on the door of the church in Wittenberg), here is the first in a series of quotes from some of the reformers on the importance of the gospel: “Either sin is with you, lying on your shoulders, […]