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Luther's 'Best Thing That Happened' - Lutheran (Romans 8:28)
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When Luther was condemned and hunted, his friends staged a "kidnapping" to hide him in Wartburg Castle. Luther called it "the best thing that happened"...
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When Luther was condemned and hunted, his friends staged a "kidnapping" to hide him in Wartburg Castle. Luther called it "the best thing that happened" to him. Why? In hiding, with nothing else to do, he translated the New Testament into German—the book that would shape the Reformation more than any other. God used danger to create space for blessing.…
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