Grace Alone

An in-depth look at the most pivotal event in Luther's life and the effect that his conversion had not only upon Christianity but the course of history as a whole.

He brought forth reform and renewal to the area of Florence, Italy in the 1400's. The reward he received for his efforts was to be burned at the stake by the church authorities.

Access to the written word and especially the Word of God would take a turn towards great availability for the common person when Johann Gutenberg invented and developed the printing press in 1456. This in turn greatly fueled the coming Reformation a few years later.

Access to the written word and especially the Word of God would take a turn towards great availability for the common person when Johann Gutenberg invented and developed the printing press in 1456. This in turn greatly fueled the coming Reformation a few years later.

In the audio version, Bryan shares his personal testimony: the adventures in his life that took him from competitive surfing and professional modeling to traveling minister. The Lord has blessed him by getting to not only preach in places like Europe, Latin America and Asia, but also getting to surf some of the best waves in the world in those areas!

Growing up in a non-Christian home and getting into surfing, amongst other things, at a young age God reached into Bryan’s life. Competitive surfing and professional modeling filled his time but God had different plans for the future. As he finally yielded and was filled with the Holy Spirit, the Lord, in time, gave him the desires of his heart, by getting to not only preach in places like Europe, Latin America and Asia, but also get to surf some of the best waves in the world! Watch as he shares his personal testimony and some adventures of his life. Lots of surf footage and pictures!

Out of the former Czechoslovakia came another of the early lights of the Reformation. Scholar John Huss was burned at the stake by the Catholic leaders for pointing the people of Prague back to the Bible and faith in Christ.

Approximately two centuries before the Reformation proper, Wycliffe sought to turn the Body of Christ back to the essentials of salvation by faith through grace as well as working to translate the Scriptures to the common English tongue. He so angered the tradition-bound church institution that, although he avoided martyrdom, his bones were dug up and burned after he died.

They were forerunners of the Reformation and sought to follow Christ to the uttermost. Yet “kill them all and let God sort them out” was the cry of the Papal Legate as the Third Crusade was launched against these committed followers of Christ. Though condemned as heretics by the Pope, the Waldensians were actually evangelically-based, Bible-believing, orthodox Christians. Rejecting many of the pagan-like rituals of Medieval Catholicism and reaching out to the poor, sick, and lost; they were more Christian than the institution and its leaders who were condemning them as heretics and persecuting them, according to scholar and historian Ruth Tucker. Though many were killed and massacered, enough survived to be counted as part of the Reformation when it came around 400 years later.

Contrary to some views, signs and wonders have not ceased with the closing of the Biblical Canon, but have continued throuought the history of Christianity and have been a part of the work of the Kingdom from beginning to end.