Episodes
One Lord, one faith, one stake. The story of two great Reformers burned at the same stake.
Published 10/16/17
Guillaume Farel had faults — and they were real and known — but this French firebrand loved the gospel and devoted his life to sharing its riches.
Published 10/15/17
Thomas Cranmer led England from Roman Catholicism, and shaped England’s theology perhaps more than any other Reformer.
Published 10/14/17
When Johannes Oecolampadius returned to Basel in 1522, the people sung Latin in Mass. Ten years later, the Mass was gone and the songs were German.
Published 10/13/17
When Johannes Oecolampadius returned to Basel in 1522, the people sung Latin in Mass. Ten years later, the Mass was gone and the songs were German.
Published 10/13/17
What Marie Dentière lacked in feminine modesty or humility for her day, she made up for with unrivaled zeal for the gospel.
Published 10/12/17
What Marie Dentière lacked in feminine modesty or humility for her day, she made up for with unrivaled zeal for the gospel.
Published 10/12/17
He was the German glue of the Protestant movement — the unifier between the diverse strands of Reformation.
Published 10/11/17
William Tyndale gave his life so British commoners could know the Bible — not in Latin, but in their own mother tongue.
Published 10/10/17
Thomas Becon brought the Reformation from the churches to the kitchens, courts, shipyards, and battlefields. All of life is a stage for worshiping God.
Published 10/09/17
After fifteen years of preaching Catholic doctrine, Peter Martyr awoke to the gospel, fled his home, and championed the Reformation across Europe.
Published 10/08/17
While searching for the doctrine of transubstantiation in Scripture, he discovered the gospel instead.
Published 10/07/17
He sought to win his opponents not with violence, coercion, or insults, but with endless gentleness.
Published 10/06/17
She was wife to four husbands, mother to eleven children, and disciple to one Lord who never left her side.
Published 10/05/17
While Luther was brash, impulsive, and forceful, his brilliant young disciple was a timid, sober-minded unifier.
Published 10/04/17
Girolamo Savonarola condemned the pope’s abuses and elevated the authority of Scripture — all while Luther was only a child.
Published 10/03/17
Jan Hus was a preacher, a political figure, a prophet, a proto-Reformer, and a martyr of the first class.
Published 10/02/17
This proto-reformer’s protest against the Catholic Church was the first tremor of the coming spiritual earthquake.
Published 10/01/17
John Wycliffe died almost exactly a hundred years before Martin Luther was born, but his impact on the Reformation is unmistakable.
Published 09/25/17