“Reformation Sermon 2023”

Sermon 2023.10.29 Happy Reformation Sunday! I took this opportunity to re-read Justo Gonzalez’ chapters on Martin Luther and the Reformation which helped give background to this sermon. A little over 500 years ago before he wrote the 95 theses Martin Luther was an unknown Augustinian monk. Even though he tried his hardest to be a good monk, he found that he feared and even had feelings of hatred toward God. Why? Because he feared that God would throw him into hell for not being good enough. Becoming a monk was supposed to relieve Luther of his fear of hell,  but […]