For Protestant believers worldwide, October 31st is about a lot more than just costumes and candy and jackal anons. Today marks the 500th anniversary of the day a German monk posted some theological discussion points on the Facebook wall of his day, the church door. Here's Mary Cassian with an observation about that event.

To me, what's really striking about the Reformation is that something so simple had such a

profound effect. I mean, it just really was a piece of paper with some ideas nailed to a door.

That shook the world.

And it's sometimes just the simplest of things and the simple speaking of truth that is the most profound and the most far-reaching. And that's a good lesson for me,

because I don't need to come up with something new. I just need to speak truth. And I just need

to speak truth as it is found in the Word of God. And that in and up itself has so much power.

This is the Revive Our Hearts podcast with Nancy DeMoss Walgamuth, author of Choosing Gratitude

for October 31st, 2017. Well, today is October the 31st, 2017. A lot of people are celebrating Halloween today and have no idea of the true

significance of this day that 500 years ago, October the 31st, 1517, something very significant took

place that was an earthquake in the history of the church. And we've been talking

about it with Dr. Irwin Lutzer for the past several days. If you've missed that series, I hope you'll

go back. And it's been very educational, inspirational, and challenging to our thinking. Dr. Lutzer,

what took place on October the 31st, 1517 that matters so much 500 years later?

Well, that's the day when Luther nailed his 95 Theses to the Castle Church door in Wittenberg.

The theses were written in Latin, intended only to be debated among the intelligentsia.

They are translated into German Gutenberg's printing press had been developed the

preceding century. They're spread throughout Germany. All the Germans are reading them, agreeing

with them, and suddenly Europe is convulsed eventually as a result of that. And Luther becomes

involved in the process in various ways, through debates,

through standing for scripture, for all kinds of events that take place, including a lot of

martyrdom on one side or the other. And that's been the whole history of Christianity. And so today we celebrate that

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