Well, howdy church family? Pastor Mark here in Wartburg, Germany, really excited to be in the Book of Galatians with you today.

We've been in the Book of Galatians for most of the summer. It's been a great study next week. I look forward to

being with you and finishing up the book as we get ready for our third birthday

on August 11th.

What brought Grace and I hear to Germany was the new book, When Your War.

It comes out in October, it's on spiritual warfare, and it's a book that we have honestly been working on for decades pretty much

all of our adult life. We're really excited about the project in October when the

book releases there'll be a full sermon series and'll give a free copy to all the visitors at the Trinity Church and we were recording the trailer for the book right here in this room and the obvious question is well why this is the

room in which Martin Luther the great Protestant reformer sat down to translate the Bible.

As a Bible teacher, this is an incredibly historic location.

We enjoy the Bible in our native language.

There are innumerable translations available to us in English

and the Bible has become the most translated,

distributed, read, and influential book in the history of the world.

But it wasn't always that way.

There was a time when the mass, the church service on Sunday,

was in the language of Latin. In addition, the translation of the Bible

that was available was called the Vulgate, again in Latin. What that meant

was if you wanted to learn about God you needed to first learn an entirely

new language. Well there were some who wanted the Bible to be translated into the language

of the common folks so they could read it for themselves.

This includes men historically like Wycliffe, but truly everything changed with Martin Luther.

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