Next week, we celebrate the 500th anniversary of the beginning of the Protestant Reformation.

Pastor Erwin Lutzer explains why this historical event matters so much.

The most important thing that the Reformation did is it recovered the gospel and answered this question.

How does a sinner stand justified in the presence of a God

who is so holy that you can never appease him? That's the gospel itself.

This is the Revive Our Hearts podcast with Nancy DeMoss-Swaglemouth, author of A Place of Quiet Rest for October 23, 2017.

Well, my guess is that you've heard some talk recently about something called the Reformation,

the Protestant Reformation, which took place 500 years ago.

That's a pretty significant anniversary.

And it's appropriate that we should be having this kind of conversation because many historians would agree that this is one of the most significant events

in Western history. And it's an event that holds a lot of important lessons for us and for the

church today. We owe a great debt in many ways to the reformers. And our guest today, over the next several days, is going to be

introducing us to the lives, the ministries, the theology of some of these men, and some of

the issues surrounding the times in which they lived and why this matters for us today. So first,

let me introduce to you, my friend, Pastor Erwin Lutzer, Pastor Lutzer and his wife, Rebecca,

have been good friends of mine for many years. You may know Pastor Lutzer through his writings,

many books he's written, many of which have been helpful to me in my own study. And some of you

have heard his radio broadcast running to win. And for many years,

he was the pastor of the historic Moody Church in Chicago and now involved in itinerant ministry.

And you're going to get to know him over these next several days. We're going to be talking

particularly about his book called Rescuing the Gospel, the story

and significance of the Reformation.

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