Mondays with Marty - Reformation Day Edition

Since today is Reformation Day, I have assembled a special collection of clips to celebrate:

Martin Luther at the Diet of Worms (2003 movie edition):




A Reformation Day Polka:




A Reformation Day Rap:




On a more serious note, you can find a listing of the 95 Theses here and a good description of the Five Solas of the Reformation here. Now go celebrate the rediscovery of the Gospel through the Reformation!

Mondays with Marty

In this week's installment from Off the Record with Martin Luther, Luther describes three kinds of people:

5956. There are three types of people: 1. The majority of people, who are completely self-confident and live without the slightest pang of conscience and have no sense of God's wrath. 2. Those whom God has frightened with the Law, who flee and are ringed with dougt, like Paul. 3. Those who in their fear suddenly hear the preaching of the Gospel of merciful forgiveness of sins and accept it.   (pp. 297-98).

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In this week's installment from Off the Record with Martin Luther, Luther extols the value of music as a balm for melancholy:

3955. The optimum restorer for a depressed individual is music, even when played with very nominal skill. As [Virgil] said: "You raise your horn and blow, I will sing the verse." You sing the notes and I will sing the text.   (p. 139).

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In this week's installment from Off the Record with Martin Luther, Luther laments the suffering that grain experiences at the hands of people:

851. Grain suffers a lot from people. For first of all, it is thrown onto the ground, so that it will germinate. Finally, when it is grown and ripe, it is cut up or torn out. After that it is threshed and sifted, then we grind it and brew beer or near beer from it, which farmers guzzle and then give it back above and below and tinkle on the fence.  (p. 99).

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In this week's installment from Off the Record with Martin Luther, Luther describes how a believer should speak to Christ:

3188. If someone laments that he was so troubled by a sermon that he had to leave, comfort him so: "God receives two kinds of offerings, one is praise, and the other is a shattered heart."  (p. 221).

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