Let me begin with some suggestions about how to listen to this talk.

As last year I have my manuscript in my hand and we made 200 of them and you may have them free when I'm done.

And therefore, I would suggest you not try to rigorously be writing things down.

Everything I say, well, that's probably not true since I prayed for the gift of prophecy as I began.

But almost everything I say will be here, and a more I'm striking at least seven pages out of this

to fit it into the time so relax the way I would listen if I were you is to open a piece of paper in front of me and be listening for the kinds

of things you like to ask questions about.

And that apply to you and hit you and that would make a difference in your ministry.

So don't try to do any systematic note-taking because it's all there.

This is a really daunting task, isn't it?

It's easy. This is a really daunting task, isn't it?

It's easy to take a man and do a biographical study on him when he's got one biography written about him.

Say Alexander White, maybe or somebody. got one biography written about him.

Say Alexander White maybe or somebody.

Luther, you know, the anniversary of his birth was 1983, the 400th anniversary, his 450th anniversary of his death is in two weeks.

And dozens of commentaries emerged in the 80s.

And of course he wrote 60,000 pages.

And so to undertake to do what I'm doing here is just ridiculous.

So I had to narrow down and the topic, I chose that topic that was printed months ago before I read anything and the topic that I'm going to address is Martin Luther at study. It's very narrow and I will leave out all the things you want to know

about Luther, but we can talk about those later if you want to. But this has been very refreshing for me.

I hope all of you in your churches set aside a Sunday,

maybe Reformation Sunday, in which you put yourself under the pressure I put myself

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