A Day Worth Celebration

Today office buildings and schools that refuse to celebate in any overt way holidays like Christmas and Easter will celebrate a culture of death and demons by celebrating Halloween. But there is something of much more value to celebrate this time of year. Tomorrow, October 31, marks the anniversary of the day Martin Luther touched off the Protestant Reformation by nailing his 95 theses to the door of the church in Wittenberg. You can find an explanation of the event here.

Luther’s emphasis on the grace of God and the inability of man to earn God’s favor nearly cost him his life. But he reclaimed the core teaching of Christianity in the process. Many Christians, even Protestant ones, are woefully ignorant of the debt they owe Luther. So today, I propose that instead of blindly celebrating death with the culture at large, pick up a cup of hot cocoa and read Luther’s theses and Romans 8. Remember God’s grace and redemption. Not even death can keep us from him!

Tags: Reformation