At Red Door Church here in central Vermont we are celebrating the Protestant Reformation for the sixth year in a row (since 2014). One way we’ve decided to do that these last few years is by putting on an event we call, “Reformation Day Celebration.” We open our doors during our town’s annual Fall Festival …
October 31st of this year marks the 500th anniversary of Martin Luther’s nailing his “95 Theses”1 to the All Saints Church door in Wittenberg, Germany. David Mathis’ writes: “It’s no accident that October 31 is both Halloween and the day remembered for the start of the Reformation. Both key off November 1, All Saints’ Day — …
Not that I have already attained, or am already perfected; but I press on, that I may lay hold of that for which Christ Jesus has also laid hold of me….I press toward the goal for the prize of the upward call of God in Christ Jesus. Therefore let us, as many as are mature, …
