Welcome to October. The month of October begins for us on the

podcast and this month we're celebrating the Reformation together

Martin Luther's great stand against the Pope and against Rome's spiritual abuses and theological errors.

Luther did not stand alone, of course. Other men stood for the same cause with him.

Both before and after him, people like John Wickcliffe, William Tindale, Thomas Cranmer, John Knox, and

John Calvin, and many other lesser known names paid the ultimate price in the Reformation as well.

Men and women, even teenagers who stood against Rome and who were bled and burned and

drowned for their convictions.

These stories of sacrifice are our focus in the month ahead in a 31 day tour that you can complete in just about five to seven minutes a day.

It's called Here We Stand.

If you haven't yet, subscribe to the email journey today online at desiring God.org

forward slash stand or just go to desiring God

dot org and click on the link at the top of the website.

I hope you'll join us in remembering the price paid

for the spiritual blessings and the religious liberties that we enjoy today as Protestant Christians.

And speaking of church history again, the birthday of Jonathan Edwards falls on Saturday on October 5th.

Pastor John on Monday we talked about Christian zeal, an old-fashioned word but an important one

you called zeal an essential virtue to Christian obedience.

And to make the case you quoted Paul's biblical exhortations

like in Romans, do not be slothful in zeal,

be fervent in spirit, serve the Lord. That's Romans 12 11 and in Titus we read

Christ gave himself for us to purify for himself a people who are

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