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sermon on Reformation

celebrated case of total power failure in Alanya, about 100 church visitors in large Sall Conservatory their worship on Reformation. Without organ accompaniment, the great Lutheran hymns were sung. The speech on Reformation can be read here.


Dear community, especially dear Catholic Christians,

you the most as well as he sang: "Lord keep us in your word ..." Do you know the original text? He said: "Conservation our Lord in your word and guide Pope Turks and murder ... "Maybe you can talk about a different time, about the Pope and Luther, of Luther and the Turks. Today is Reformation Day and since I do not want to put so much litigation in the foreground, but what made him a reformer and maybe even move us.
you have just read an important text for Martin Luther Bible: Romans 1:16 and 17 I am ashamed of the gospel, because it is the power of God unto salvation to all believers, to the Jew first and then the Greeks. For God's justice was revealed in him by faith to faith, just as it is written from the belief Righteous shall live.
Listen to this, you will remain aware of any case that the word "faith" is dominated by two very sentences. The word "faith" is for Martin Luther throughout his life remained a key word. It was Luther so important that Karl Barth, the great theologian from Basel, hung in his apartment before the output of the works of Martin Luther a curtain, all of which dealt with Martin Luther as a warning. Karl Barth saw in Luther namely the risk that the medical facts are transformed into subjective claims could, that no one could come up against them.
you know the problem, dear brethren, my faith is my business. My faith is nobody's business, my faith, I build myself. Karl Barth was concerned that "my faith," "faith" destroys. The Martin Luther
has not clearly understood, although it is certain that the faith of Luther, the alpha and omega of all that is what is meant by Christianity.
"Do you have so you do not believe, you have not," "God and faith will abound" ... These are crucial sentences by Martin Luther's theology is evident in a flash is. The belief is
, our faith, my faith ... of our short biblical text, there are two translations. Luther read his tradition: The righteous shall live by faith. But then it shot through him like a blow when he managed to different translation: The righteous shall live by faith. The
Luther's great discovery, which did not let go again. The human being like God in the guise of faith. Faith makes beautiful Unattractive respectable before God and the ugly. The man is justified by faith before God. The doctrine of justification is the short description of what being human.
do not fret, dear brethren, if you do not grab the same. Or if you hear a clear "no".
quite different as we can not cope with it. For example, the famous humanist Erasmus of Rotterdam. First
saw it for many of the contemporaries of Luther and Erasmus as if reluctant to two together. Erasmus was a linguistic genius. He only spoke Latin, his 2000 letter and his 150 books written in Greek or Latin. For Martin Luther and his theological employees particularly interesting was Erasmus of Rotterdam 1516, the first critical edition of the New Testament, Luther probably used in his translation of the Bible in the Wartburg.
Erasmus, a sophisticate, a critic had his settlement with the church. But he wanted to reform the Church from within, not fight to the death, as it was ready to fight Luther.
The two very different characters, Luther and Erasmus are never met in person. From 1519, two years after the theses, they were in a correspondence. It soon became apparent that they could not pull together. Pointedly has this in their understanding of "free will" of man.
1524 appeared the writing of Erasmus' De libero arbitrio "," From the free will. " And Martin Luther responded by writing the reply, "De servo arbitrio", "The Bondage of (or enslaved) will."
1525 Martin Luther was an important year. In the year Luther married Katharina von Bora, the nun sprung. Not out of love but because Catherine had to be cared for and because Luther with this step, another secular sacrament, the sacrament of marriage. Do not be left unmentioned that 1525 the Peasants' Revolt was crushed by the bloody prince and that Martin Luther unbearably hot party had taken against the farmers.
Back to the two great spirits. If man has a free or not free will? Of course, man can decide whether he eats or hungry, whether he sleeps or wakes up if he takes an umbrella when it rains or not, whether he brushes his teeth ... The two Great, it was a question whether man do something can for his salvation. God has all the work to be done, when it comes to the acquisition of eternal Life is or can be involved because of the man. Of course, Erasmus has not dreamed of that man can obtain eternal life alone. God plays an important role, but what man can contribute?
For Erasmus was clear that man has such a free will, how should it be otherwise responsible for his life? Martin Luther, however, paints a picture with which he illustrates the oppressed of the human will in the view of salvation. The man is a beast, and either he is in hell by Satan or Jesus Christ riding into the sky. Especially in view of the eternal life, Martin Luther, the human must be saved from self-designated. For what can the sinful man to create out of mischief?
Luther's Book of the "unfree will" is the hardest thing has appeared in theological writings, Luther's friend, as Philipp Melanchthon, were very unhappy about the font. I mean, you can only put up with this script or something to understand if one realizes that for Luther the source and scale of faith but the Bible was and that faith creates what has no being.
Dear community, Martin Luther's discovery of faith with the result that faith and knowledge, faith and morality separated. We are indeed assumed all times, the belief would be an inferior knowledge or in the better case, a precursor to knowledge. But this is wrong. The Christ of faith is a force that tears away from the people themselves to God, which snatches the mortal death into life and tears.
If believers, then there are new creatures of God, if faith is lacking, then God has not (yet) been made to believe.
Karl Barth saw how Luther might be misunderstood, has the question of how much the man has to do with his health answered, so much as the Hanged with his rope.
Dear community, reformation is not so much that transformed the church, reformation is more likely that God gets written back what is his work, the new creation, since life begins here already. Amen

Elongated Mucus For Nose

camera crew from ZDF time to make the community

two days we were accompanied by a camera crew from ZDF. For all the onlookers, the result can be 19:10:10 on ZDF on Tuesday in the midday and evening show seen in the 21.45 clock news. The sermon of our "worship television is down here.

We ask and exhort you in the Lord Jesus because you have received from us, how you should live to please God, whatever you do, too - that you will is always perfect. For ye know what commandments we gave you through the Lord Jesus. Because this is the will of God, your sanctification, that you abstain from fornication, and every one of you looking to win his own wife in holiness and honor, not greedy Lust like the heathen, who know nothing of God. No one goes too far and defraud his brother in business, because the Lord is a judge of all that, as we have said before you and testified. For God has not called us to uncleanness, but unto holiness. Those who now despises, despises not man but God who gives His Holy Spirit within you
(1.Thess.4 0.1 to 8)

Dear brethren, dear guests.

"with the second one looks better," said ZDF, celebrate by the representatives of this service today. I just do not understand why it is in these words the other eye, the first one, then, must be recorded. Two heads are better than one and is it the second, I think.
But as only a small start, yes it would be up to date. We do not go around the eyes but the ears.
listening ears two more than one? Or is the second ear more often there to allow through the fast, which has entered through the first ear?
Someone said at the beginning of my entry into employment: Well, you know, much of what is spoken in the community, you can be in one ear and out the other quickly. One probably good advice only, you have to figure out first, and you have to want to draft. I confess, because I learn some decades and fall, daily new items to it. I hear if it's not worth it and I turn to draft, if I was to hear.
On passage, dear brethren, I turn very quickly if I remember. I think it must have the understanding of the world.
an old bone of 65 years of age, you should still can safely leave it alone right? On the other hand, if I am really happy when I am left alone? I feel not really actually quite good in my murmuring against admonitions. Is it not the life of being able to complain about the apparent alls? Ah, basically you feel but also may eventually come to his annoyance.
If we are left alone, then we are still close to zero. Those who have no more reason to get excited, is somehow fallen quite deep. I would imagine that there are quite a few German-speaking in Alanya, who long after that to really be reminded once again to get excited about someone that one has in fact quite happy. To chat from the parish beautiful sewing box, on Thursday I stood in the cemetery and buried an old German man, the mourners had four grave graves, the Undertaker, two photographers and me, sweating in the gown. If there had still been a few people. Whether they have been in a friendly or tense relationship with the deceased. The main thing that they think along the Our Father, pray with, maybe even an old and it was able to sing a funeral song trite. As we stand there in the Muslim environment, swears so on the family. What about the Judeo-Christian works of mercy to bury the dead and to console grieving?
I just wanted to say you do not even know which one is rewarded in this world. It may be the warning voice of a spouse. It may be the petty criticism of a neighbor.
Who is reminded of who is criticized, is not quite dead
And so taken, dear brethren, the New Testament, the Epistles of the Apostle are one-life messages, because they remind us again and again, so that many have on the other ear comes out.
Let's listen to the exhortations in our text. In my Bible is already a heading "exhortation to holiness" and then it starts: We ask and urge you, as sure as we sit in the same boat, the Spirit of Jesus Christ means. Everyone should get his own wife. No one is to cut down his neighbor over the ear. From complying with this exhortation is life and death, and does your relationship with Christ.
I took a long time until I realized sheep's head, which is why the apostle page after page in his letters, written warnings and why his listeners or readers have picked up something so carefully. Oh, I almost forgot, we heard a passage from an incredible document. The first document that we have the Apostle Paul, the 1.Brief to the Thessalonians. How many million people have read the full respect? How many thousands have been inspired by it? We have almost forgotten but unfortunately, what a treasure we have been placed in the hands. We deal with it as our parents, our traditions, all just a nuisance, all freiheitsverhindernd.
So, why the Apostle exhorts page after page and here on two very important areas of sexuality and possession? He exhorts
because he and his congregation did an incredible experience of freedom. A new reality, a reality in the strongest sense of the word had taken it, the reality eternal life through the encounter with Jesus Christ. Their existence was a once and for all been decided in favor of life.
The result was all the bonds fell.
You could say the Apostles, his whole previous existence is to nothing, has become a mess due to the encounter of Damascus. And the community in Thessaloniki by 50 of our era similar had happened. What counted after the arrival of life, ethics and morality, which was holding trade and commerce? Everything had shrunk before the gift of life to nothing, a waste, like a translation formulated very elegantly.
The brilliant and sometimes terrifying Martin Luther has what I tell formulated incredibly accurate. He says: "A Christian man is a free lord of all things and no one subject. A Christian is a servant of all things and subject to everyone. " Is through Jesus Christ to heaven raised human-free, freely to his Lord Jesus Christ and thus free to the service to all creatures.
So we are so free that we remind ourselves and ask can, indeed, that we long for out for warning and request to keep our feet on the ground.
Somehow I would like to conclude now, dear brethren. And a halfway decent conclusion after you read it in the media, a passable conclusion inevitably comes back to the beginning.
"With the Second one looks better! "That was the beginning. We use for centuries already on the ear. We can say that we are loved, where we are also going to lose or fall as we have become free men. But the outside. Of which the apostle writes quite scary that they were pagans, the waste in "greedy desire" their lives that do not hear so much what we say that we see the sure who we are in everyday life, in the encounter, in our swagger. And if I have to quote this passage from the "greedy desire" of the Gentiles, I can say from my experience, that the Gentiles restrained me much, much happier life than I would often meet me. We must learn to use our freedom, so I beseech you. Amen.