WATCH VIDEO Our Christian Heritage goes “On Location” with Randy Melchert to Dayton, Tennessee, to visit the historic Scopes Trial Courtroom. Read more...
WATCH VIDEO Our Christian Heritage goes “On Location” with the Hymn History of The Old Rugged Cross. Written over a hundred years ago, and performed in Sturgeon Bay, Wisconsin. Friends Community Church has an outdoor memorial commemorating the first public performance of the hymn, and we take you there! Read more...
WATCH VIDEO Our Christian Heritage goes “On Location” with the Hymn History of Fanny Crosby who penned “Safe In The Arms Of Jesus” and “I Shall Know Him.” Read more...
WATCH VIDEO Our Christian Heritage goes “On Location” with Randy Melchert to a Princeton, NJ, cemetery to find the graves of America’s Founding Pastors: Jonathan Edwards, Samuel Davies, and John Witherspoon. Read more...
From the Institute for the Study of Ancient Cultures at the University of Chicago: Tell al-Muqayyar (ancient Ur) lies near the city of Nasiriyah in the southwestern floodplain of the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers. The mounded ruins, roughly oval in shape, measure approximately 1,200 meters northwest to southeast and 800 meters northeast to southwest. They rise to a height of Read more...
Good morning. This is Rebecca Lutzer from Wittenberg, Germany. A beautiful day here in this quaint, medieval-looking town that has so much history and has brought us here today to learn more about Martin and Katie Luther. So this morning, I’m going to share with you a little bit about their lives – how they met and how God Read more...
Hi, I’m Pastor Lutzer, and we are here in Wittenberg, Germany, and we are at what is known as the town church. It’s not the church where Luther posted the 95 Theses. That’s a little ways from here. This is the church where the Gospel was preached in German. And of course, it has huge implications. Martin Luther and his Read more...
Hi, I’m Pastor Lutzer. I want you to spend a few moments with me. I am here in Wittenberg, Germany, and I’m actually sitting in one of the churches of Wittenberg. Wittenberg has two churches. You’ve perhaps heard me say that before. This is not the church where the 95 Theses were posted, but it’s the church in which Read more...
Hi, I’m Pastor Lutzer. Many of us are traveling throughout Germany looking at very important sites. Today we happen to be in the Town Church of Wittenberg. There are two huge churches here in Wittenberg. This is not the church where the 95 Theses were placed, but it’s where the Gospel was preached in German, and that’s why it’s Read more...
Hi, I’m Pastor Lutzer. Many of us are on a tour of Germany, and we are visiting some very important sites. But as far as my interests are concerned, I think that there is none greater than this church. This church is the Church of the Reformation. Just outside the wall, that’s where Luther nailed his 95 Theses, and Read more...
Hi, I’m Pastor Lutzer in Wittenberg, Germany. With me is a tour group, and we are touring Germany and learning all about German history … at least some of the German history that is most important to us. Today, we are in the city of Wittenberg, famous, of course, because this is where Martin Luther lived, and he lived Read more...
Hi, I’m Pastor Lutzer, and it is a beautiful day here in Germany. We are at the Wartburg Castle. And for us, this castle has significance, because Martin Luther was brought here. He was captured and brought here after the Diet of Worms. Perhaps you’ve heard of that diet. Charles V, the head of the Holy Roman Empire, had Read more...
Hi, I’m Pastor Lutzer. Many of us are traveling here in Germany, seeing very important historical sites. Today, on a beautiful day, we are in one of the most beautiful areas that you could possibly imagine. But don’t let beauty deceive you because behind me is a building in which one of the most evil decisions ever made in Read more...
Hi, I’m Pastor Lutzer, and many of us are having the opportunity of touring Germany to learn about its history and the lessons that apply to us. Perhaps you’ve already noticed that we are very close to The Reichstag, what we could call the German parliament. On it is written “Dem Deutschen Volk,” that is to say, “For/To the Read more...
Hi, I’m Pastor Lutzer, and I’m standing in a very significant place. Behind me is a building which in 1942 was used to plan The Final Solution. The Final Solution was to get rid of all the Jews, and the questions the Nazis asked themselves were, “How do you coordinate that? How do you have trains transport them? How Read more...
Hi, I’m Pastor Lutzer, and many of us are touring Germany. We’re learning a lot about its history, and the impact it has had on the entire world. Today, on this very beautiful day here in Germany, we’re actually in Potsdam. Potsdam is the place where the famous conference was held that decided to divide Europe and find out Read more...
Hi, I’m Pastor Lutzer. Many of us are touring Germany finding important sites that have impacted history, and I can’t think of a more important site than where we are today in Nuremberg, Germany. More specifically, we’re actually at the site of the great Nazi rallies just outside of the city of Nuremberg, and you can see to the Read more...
Hi, I’m Pastor Lutzer, and I’m standing on the podium where Hitler gave his famous speeches. It is from this pulpit that evil went forth. And of course, it affected the entire world. Two hundred thousand people gathered here in Nuremberg, and it was here that he inspired a nation. And, of course, he led them to a very Read more...
