Welcome to the John Mark Comer Teaching's Podcast by Practicing the Way.

This teaching was first given at Bridgetown Church in Portland, Oregon as a part of the scripture series. Anybody recognize this photo?

If you have been to Oxford, England,

or if you are an Uber history nerd,

you recognize this as Martyrs Cross.

I remember years ago I was in Oxford for a day

and I was walking down Broad Street

and I just about tripped over this

and I thought, what in the world

is this really ancient looking cross in the middle of the road and I had to Google it?

Well, it turns out Martyrs Cross is the name of it and it marks the spot where in 1555

three of the top leaders in the Church of England, Hugh Latimer, who's the Bishop of Worcester,

Thomas Cranmer, who's the Archbishop, I'm sorry, Nicholas Ridley was the Bishop of London,

and Thomas Cranmer, who was the Bishop of London and Thomas Cranmer who was the Archbishop of Canterbury

itself were all burned at the stake right there by Queen Mary or as she's come to be called

Bloody Mary at the very beginning of the English

reformation all because they refused to recant their heretical teachings

which were actually Orthodox teachings they got from reading the Bible. They were willing to suffer

acute pain and to die for what the scripture had to say because of the life's

work and death of another martyr just a few decades

before by the name of William Tindale. I'm guessing most of you recognize that

name. If you don't know his story, Tindale was a linguist and a professor at Cambridge University, without a doubt one of the great minds, not only of his time but of Western civilization in general.

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