March 17, 1521: The Portrait

Hundreds of miles from Wittenberg, a boy named John Calvin schools his schoolmaster on the nature of God's providence. Meanwhile, Martin Luther is teaching his own students today when an awaited messenger approaches. A donor-supported outreach of Ligonier Ministries. Donate: http ...  Show more

It's April 2, and the herald has arrived to escort Luther from Wittenberg to the Diet at Worms. Today, Martin Luther begins the 250-mile journey, leaving the relative safety of Saxony far behind. A donor-supported outreach of Ligonier Ministries. Donate: https://gift.ligonier.org ...  Show more

Martin Luther is one of the few people to have genuinely changed the world, igniting a religious revolution that tore Christendom in two, and undermined European tradition in ways that still reverberate today. But along with Luther’s uniquely tortured psyche, three events contrib ...  Show more

"I cannot and will not recant anything for to go against conscience is neither right nor safe.…Here I stand, I can do no other” The Diet of Worms in April 1521 was one of history’s most dramatic confrontations, a clash of the old world and the new. It saw the celebrity professor ...  Show more

Three years on from Martin Luther’s publication of the Ninety-Five Theses - a shocking attack on the corruption of the Catholic Church and the selling of indulgences - his radical new ideas and brilliant use of the printing press had unleashed chaos in Christendom. Still in Witte ...  Show more

Can you summarize your faith in a few brief words? In this episode, Barry Cooper discusses the five solas of the Protestant Reformation and explains their relevance today. Read the transcript: https://simplyputpodcast.com/five-solas/ A donor-supported outreach of Ligonier Ministr ...  Show more