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Jerry Root at the Bunhill Fields Burial Grounds: I’m sitting here in a famous London cemetery called Bunhill Fields. If you were an Anglican, you could be buried in an Anglican cemetery. But if you weren’t an Anglican, you had to be buried in a non-conformist cemetery. And this is one where there were many interesting people in both theological Read more...
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Erwin Lutzer previews the museum: Watch Douglas Whitley as George Muller: The George Müller Museum is a small but deeply meaningful historical site that preserves the life and legacy of George Müller, one of the most influential figures in nineteenth-century Christian philanthropy. Located in Bristol, the museum is housed within one of the original orphan homes established by Müller, making Read more...
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Behind me is Westminster Abbey, and of course, as you know, it has a tremendous history here in England. It’s a graveyard for about a thousand people, and 2,000 others are memorialized here. But someone buried in the Abbey and his burial there caused controversy, was Charles Darwin, who was born in 1809. He’s the one who wrote The Origin Read more...
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Erwin Lutzer in the Saxon Tower: I’m here in a very important room in Oxford, England. When Mary Tudor became the Queen, that was in 1553, she believed it was her responsibility to turn the clock back and to make England into a Catholic country again. To do this, she martyred a number of people, and the most famous three Read more...
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Erwin Lutzer at the Martyr’s Cross: Mary Tudor believes it’s God’s will that she turn England back to Catholicism. And she thought that if she killed a number of martyrs, if she killed a number of people, a number of Protestants, surely the country would turn back. Well, she killed nearly 300, but there are three that are famous, and Read more...
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Erwin Lutzer at St. Mary’s Church: Some of us have just had the opportunity of visiting St. Mary’s Church here in Oxford, England, and we recounted the story of Bishop Cranmer, who was a Protestant and advanced the Protestant faith, eventually converted to Catholicism out of fear. He knew that Queen Mary wanted to kill him. And then here in Read more...
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Hi, my name is Professor Jerry Root. I’ve spent my life studying C.S. Lewis. We’re sitting in the garden of C.S. Lewis’s Oxford home. It was called The Kilns, named after a brick kiln that was right next door to this house. And Lewis purchased the house in 1930 with his brother and a woman named Mrs. Moore, and he Read more...
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Erwin Lutzer explains the John Wesley Statue Welcome to Bristol, England. Behind me is a statue of John Wesley, one of the greatest evangelists of all time. Wesley lived in the 1700s, and of course he was a man who spent a great deal of time on horseback. because he preached the gospel of Jesus Christ throughout England. He went Read more...
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Erwin Lutzer explains the significance of Hanham Mount: Every once in a while you have the opportunity of standing somewhere that you’ve read about all of your life and you begin to understand the significance of the place and somehow it even becomes a very reverent place because you know that something very significant happened right here. I’m actually standing Read more...
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Erwin Lutzer at St. Paul’s Cathedral: Welcome to St. Paul’s Cathedral here in London, England. I’m standing at a very important place, a place that reminds us so clearly of the tremendous price that was paid for the Bible that we oftentimes take for granted. So what happened here, and why is this so important? You know, the Bible, as Read more...
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Erwin Lutzer at Balliol College: Behind me is one of the oldest colleges here in Oxford, England. It is called Balliol College. And our interest goes back to the time of Wycliffe, who was in charge of this college for one full year. And then, of course, he had to move on. Now, Wycliffe was a man who insisted that Read more...
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Erwin Lutzer on St. George Chapel & the Death of Henry VIII Behind me is St. George’s Chapel. It’s the place where Henry VIII is buried. When we follow his life, his six wives, two beheadings, we are brought to this place as a reminder of the fact that life comes to an end even to the most powerful and Read more...
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Erwin Lutzer: Behind me is a memorial to people who were executed here under the reign of Henry VIII. Perhaps the one that we are most interested in is his second wife, Anne Boleyn. She became a Protestant Christian. She read the New Testament in English. and she prayed many prayers. I’ve chosen one from her prayer book, and I Read more...
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Hi, I’m Erwin Lutzer. Welcome to Highgate Cemetery here in London, England. I’m standing beside the grave of Karl Marx, a man who still rules much of the world from his grave. I want you to notice what is on his tombstone. This is a quotation from the Communist Manifesto, which he co-wrote with Engels. Workers of all lands unite. Read more...