This month at DesiringGod.org, we are celebrating 31 personalities behind the Protestant Reformation

in a series called Here We Stand, 31 Heroes of the Reformation.

Each day through the month of October, we're publishing a brief character sketch of a personality

in the Reformation.

A little five to seven minute episode of audio, it's a real easy to catch up if you're

just hearing about it now.

You can find more details on the site at DesiringGod.org, a forward slash stand.

Well, today on the podcast, we talk about a longer book length of biographies, and the

question comes to us from a listener named Dylan.

Pastor John, in light of 2017 being the 500th anniversary of the Protestant Reformation,

and you being a biographer of several of the Reformers, what book length Reformation

biographies would be great to read, and why would you read them?

This morning, I got up early before my wife was awake, and to keep from waking her up,

I grabbed all my clothes and went into the next room, and that's the room where all my

biographies are shelved.

I have a separate room.

And there, I didn't know this question was coming.

I just sat there amazed at the wonderful gift from God of biographies.

I think there are probably 40 feet of shelf space filled with biographies in that room.

So I love this question.

I think good biographies are spiritually, historically, theologically, psychologically,

the best way to expose ourselves to times and people and thinking outside our own head.

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