The Flame Keeper of Zurich
In 1519, Huldrych Zwingli stood in the pulpit of the Grossmünster in Zurich and did something almost no one dared. He set aside the prescribed...
This is stories & illustrations, drawing on Jude 1:3.
In 1519, Huldrych Zwingli stood in the pulpit of the Grossmünster in Zurich and did something almost no one dared. He set aside the prescribed lectionary readings and opened the Gospel of Matthew, chapter one, verse one, and began preaching straight through the text. Week after week. Book after book. His congregation had never heard anything like it — the scriptures in their own language, taught with clarity and conviction.…
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