He became a monk to fulfill a vow he had made, and because he wanted to please God.

But by the year 1517, Martin Luther was frustrated.

There's no peace. The question is how. Love God.

Luther said, I hate him. And I hate him because his standards are so high.

How do you meet the standards of a holy God?

This is the Revive Our Hearts podcast with Nancy DeMoss Walgamuth, author of A Place of Quiet Rest for October 25th, 2017.

Music 17th, 2017. Well, it's a great joy and a great privilege to have Pastor Erwin Lutzer with us here

on Revive Our Hearts this week. Over several days, we're talking about rescuing the gospel, the story and significance of the

Reformation. Pastor Luster has written a book with that title, and I have been spellbound

over the last weeks as I've been immersed in this story, and Pastor Luce was a great storyteller,

and these things that happened 500 years ago.

You'd think they might be dry and boring. They're anything but that. And there are things that we

need to understand as we deal with the implications of the gospel in our day.

Pastor Lutzer is an author for many years was the pastor of Moody Church in Chicago, Illinois.

He's the primary, the Bible teacher on a radio program called Running to Win that you may have heard. And Pastor Lutzer,

welcome back to revive our hearts. Thank you for being with us today. Nancy, I'm so excited about

being here. Thank you for inviting me, and I can hardly wait to get to the discussion

today. And let me say that if you didn't catch the last couple of days in this series, you want to do

that because we laid some groundwork, some foundation that will help you in your understanding

of the Reformation. And today we come to one of the most significant figures, probably the most significant figure

in the Protestant Reformation. And I heard you say, Pastor Lutzer, that there had been more books

written on Luther than any person except Jesus and Paul. Jesus and the Apostle Paul. So you think

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