Welcome to Mortification of Spin, bully pulpit, a casual conversation about things that count,

with Carl Truman, Todd Pruitt, and Amy Bird.

Mortification of Spin is a weekly podcast from the Alliance of Confessing Evangelicals.

It's Reformation Month, and this week the gang is talking about one of our favorite reformers.

Who is this man?

What are his great accomplishments?

And what should we read to get to know him better?

Keep listening after the podcast to learn how to download a Michael Horton MP3 on this theologian.

Well, today we want to start the program with a new section called Ask the Pastor,

when we want to present Todd Pruitt today with a particular pastoral dilemma that's arisen. And I want to,

I want to talk about a couple. It's a very sad story. They met some years ago. For the sake of anonymity, we'll change the names. We'll call them Martin and Catherine. They met some years ago, they fell in love, and they married, and they had a number of children.

And one day, rather sadly, Martin was out traveling, and he became ill, but he wrote Catherine

a letter unaware of what was about to happen

to him. He wrote her just an ordinary run-of-the-mill love letter. And Catherine's question to Todd

is, since the tragic death of a husband shortly after writing this letter, Catherine's

question is, how should she remember her husband? And I want to

quote here from a particularly, dare I say it, moving part of the letter and then ask Todd's,

Todd's advice. Todd, here is how the letter ends. And I know you're a sensitive man. So I'm expecting

big things from you here. And I'm you're a sensitive man, so I'm expecting big things from you here,

and I'm sure Catherine will be very helped by your advice. Martin wrote this, I'm drinking beer

from Namburg, which tastes me almost like the beer from Mansfeld, which you praise to me.

It agrees with me well and gives me about three bowel movements in three hours

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