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Frank Jenner spoke with over 100,000 people on George Street in Sydney, asking them: “If you died within 24 hours, where would you be in eternity? Heaven or hell?” Ray Comfort would often tell the story of the faithfulness in evangelism of Frank Jenner Featured Image Credit: Royal Australian Navy, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons Read more...

Approximate location Also recognized by Taubergassen Road in Vienna From BackToLuther: After such a long struggle God wanted to reveal his glory and Tauber’s faith. Once again the tyrants tried to persuade him to revoke.  Many men and a great crowd gathered, eager to all learn if he would recant. But the pious Christian was not weaker but stronger and Read more...

From Wikipedia: Jan van Essen and Hendrik Vos or Voes, were the first two Lutherans martyrs, executed by the Council of Brabant for their adherence to Reformation doctrine. They were burned at the stake in Brussels on 1 July 1523.[1] Background Essen and Vos were friars of the Order of Saint Augustine resident at the Augustinian priory in Antwerp, now St. Andrew’s Church. When in 1522 all the friars there publicly professed Lutheran doctrine, the Bishop of Cambrai had them all arrested Read more...

Port Hope History: It became Joseph’s usual practice to spend the winter months in Bewdley and the summers in Port Hope, where he boarded for 22 years with Margaret, nee Brumfitt, the widow of Patrick Gibson, a milkman, in her house on Thomas Street at the corner of Merritt Street, which later became a part of Strachan Street. Mrs Gibson Read more...

From 1860 to 1930, the Queen’s Royal Hotel was located on the shores of the Niagara River overlooking Lake Ontario. One of the top hotels of the Gilded Age, from 1883 to 1897 it became the permanent home of the Believers’ Meeting for Bible Study, later called the Niagara Bible Conference. This prototype of the Bible Conference movement, began in Read more...

From Vance Christie: Carl Becker (1894-1990) was born and raised in Manheim, Pennsylvania. After receiving his medical training at Hahnemann Medical College in Philadelphia, he successfully practiced medicine in Boyertown, Pennsylvania, for seven years. In 1929 Becker and his wife, Marie, left Boyertown to go to the Belgian Congo (modern Democratic Republic of the Congo) under the Africa Inland Mission. Read more...

Jacques Pavanes finds his name spelled different ways. In The Fourteen of Meaux, it notes his name as Iacobus Pauaneus, Jaques Pavanes, Pavannes, and Jacques Pauvant. However you spell his name, they said “This Jaques Pavanes began to teach the truth with such fervency of soul that he was the first to suffer death by fire in Paris.” Likely less than Read more...

Hi, I’m Pastor Lutzer, and we are in the Augustinian monastery in Erfurt, Germany. This is where Martin Luther performed his vows to become a monk. Here’s where he lived for a number of years. This is where he sought salvation, and we are actually at the place where he would have taken his vows to be a monk. When Read more...

  Hi, I’m Pastor Lutzer, and I’m sitting in a very important spot here in Munich, Germany. This is where Hitler’s movement began. Behind me is where his troops marched and were confronted by police; as a result, sixteen of them died. Ten years later, Hitler honored them and built special temples for them. I’m sitting on what is known Read more...

  Hi, I’m Pastor Lutzer, and we’re here in Berlin, Germany. You probably recognize that I’m standing very close to the Brandenburg Gate, one of the most famous sites here in this great city. You also might remember that it was on the other side of this wall that President Reagan gave his speech in which he said, “Mr. Gorbachev, Read more...

Hi, I’m Pastor Lutzer. I’m actually in Wittenberg, Germany. Several of us are traveling, seeing important sites of the Reformation and other events of German history. This is an exciting place to be. I’m actually in the courtyard where Martin Luther and his wife, Katie, would often come. Behind me there is a door, and you can actually see what Read more...

  Hi, I’m Pastor Lutzer, and we are in Wittenberg, Germany. Of course, you know the city of Wittenberg because it is here that the Reformation began. But we’re at a special place. This is known as the Elster Gate. And I’d like to be able to share with you a very interesting event that took place here. Now, when Read more...

  Hi, I’m Pastor Lutzer. We’re actually near Hitler’s Eagle’s Nest. This is an area that was occupied by the Nazis, and of course, a lot of things happened here. To my right, there is a bunker where people would go during the war to make sure that they were safe. Now, what we’ve done is a series of videos Read more...

Hi. I’m Pastor Lutzer, and we are in Leipzig, Germany. Now, Leipzig has a very famous history, but for our interests, we are outside of St. Thomas Church. It has a great deal of influence whenever we think of the Reformation. Luther was here, but that’s a separate story. Two hundred years after the Reformation, Johann Sebastian Bach was at Read more...

Hi, this is Pastor Luther, and I’m in Leipzig, Germany, at a very important church. It’s called St Thomas Church. It’s important to the Reformation because it is here that Martin Luther came for a debate two years after he had published the 95 Theses. The debate was between Luther and a man by the name of Johannes Eck, and Read more...

  Hi, I’m Pastor Lutzer, and we’re here in Germany, in the Wartburg Castle. Now, you might remember that it was here that Martin Luther translated the New Testament into German in just 11 weeks. His translation became very influential. Eventually, Luther translated the entire Bible, but he had help for that, and it took several years. Now, it’s impossible Read more...

  Hi, I’m Pastor Lutzer, and we are in Erfurt, Germany. I’m standing behind the altar in the Augustinian monastery where Martin Luther performed his first Mass. He had a great deal of respect for the sovereignty and the holiness of God. As a matter of fact, I’m going to read for you what Luther said at a later time Read more...

Hi, I’m Pastor Lutzer. Several of us are traveling around Germany learning something about its history. Today, we are in Wittenberg, and we’re actually in the house of Melanchthon. Of course, you don’t hear about him as often as you hear about Luther, but he was Luther’s assistant. He was actually a systematic theologian. Now, when it comes to Luther, Read more...

Hi, I’m Pastor Lutzer. I’m speaking softly because we are in a monastery, or I should say, what was a monastery. This is the very monastery that Martin Luther came to, way back in the 1500’s. What we have here is a cell. It’s the kind of cell in which the monks lived. Of course, there was not a lot Read more...

  Well, I’m Pastor Lutzer, and we are here in Munich, Germany. I’m standing on the stairs of a building where the Munich Agreement was signed. It has become very important as people understand the implications of signing a document where the participants don’t really care to keep their word. This place has a special interest for my lovely wife, Read more...