Post-tenembras Lux. It's a Latin motto of the 16th century reformation that means after darkness, light.

These were dark times of corruption within the church, and critical doctrines were at stake.

Today we are looking at justification and why one man, Martin Luther, called God's righteousness, an alien righteousness.

Welcome to the Sheprews Faithful Podcast, episode number 197, truth and encouragement to live gospel-centered lives every day. I'm your host, Lauren Lushak.

Hi, everyone. Welcome to the podcast. My name is Lauren, and I'm so grateful you're here.

This is Reformation Week, which is an exciting week to celebrate the Reformation, this historical

event that happened in the 16th century over 500 years ago, and it's such a blessing to

know history and how the Lord redirected his church back to the scriptures, back to what the

word says on how we can be saved by faith alone, through grace alone, by the works of Jesus

Christ alone, and we go back to the scriptures

and we do it all for the glory of God through his goodness at work in us. And so I love doing a

podcast on the Reformation. I've done several over the past couple years. I've touched on different

people, different things. And today I'm going to talk a little bit about Martin Luther, but also

just sweetly apply it to our life. I might get to John Calvin too. We'll see how it goes.

But first of all, let's start with a life hack. Now, if you're looking for a little reformation day

idea, we're going to have a little party with our homeschool co-op. We are going to make, I've little Reformation Day idea.

We're going to have a little party with our homeschool co-op.

We are going to make, I've always wanted to do this.

You know those little dirt cups with the worms in it and the Oreo cookies and the pudding?

I've always wanted to do that, but when do you, like, when is it a good time?

Well, for kids, it's probably like, we'll eat dirt, candy or not.

It could be pudding. It could be actual dirt. I opened a pile like this new sandbag the other day for my daughter and she just reached right into it fistful in the mouth. I'm like, why? It doesn't

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