It was the scandal of Europe in the mid-1500s.

Martin Luther, the monk, married Catherine, a runaway nun.

Like any marriage, the Luther's face some difficulties.

Here's Dr. Erwin Lutzer.

The real thing that held it together during the rough spots, and it's clear that there were rough spots, is respect.

They continue to respect each other,

and they gave one another space.

This is the Revive Our Hearts podcast with Nancy DeMoss-Swaglmood,

author of A Place of Quiet Rest for October 27, 2017.

Thank you. for October 27, 2017. We're continuing our conversation today with Dr. Erwin Lutzer about the Protestant Reformation.

We're celebrating, observing a 500-year anniversary of that Reformation. It was an

earthquake. It rearranged the map of Europe. So much of what we know and experience today

around the world in Christendom has to do with ways that that era got back to Christ, back to the

gospel, and the spiritual rebirth that God

brought about there in the 16th century. And we've talked over these last days about the life

of Martin Luther, the life in times, and his courage, his faith, his humility, his fears,

and how he got us back to the authority of God's word and the beauty

of Christ as our Redeemer. Now, the Reformation and Luther's part in it affected everything that

you can imagine, including marriage and family, very practical issues. So today, with Dr. Lutzer helping us here, we want to talk about

Martin Luther's marriage, his children, his home, what it was like, and how that was all

impacted by the gospel, and how that family and the way that Martin Luther came to think about

family impacts how we think about family today.

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