Luther’s Struggle

Luther’s Struggle

by | Sep 17, 2023 | Anxiety overcome by Martin Luther, Atonement, Erfurt, Germany, Flesh; the spirt and flesh at war, Freedom from anxiety and fear, Martin Luther as a young monk, Monastery life; Luther's life in a monastery, Romans 1:17 and 7:15-25

If ever one was spiritually born out of the crucible of personal struggle, it was Martin Luther.  That struggle prompted him to join an Augustinian monastery in his native Germany (Augustine was the bishop of Hippo, North Africa; 354-430...
Sitting Bull’s Atonement

Sitting Bull’s Atonement

by | Feb 23, 2022 | Asceticism, Atonement, Battle of the Little Big Horn 1876, Ecstatic frenzy as a means of communication, Self-atonement, Self-service salvation, Sitting Bull, Sioux Indian chief, Stealing other people’s land

Sitting Bull was the leader of the Hunkpapa, a division of the Sioux Indians. There were some Blackfeet and Cheyenne allied with him on the fateful day of June 25, 1876.  It would come to be known as the Battle of the Little Bighorn River and Custer’s Last...