Biblical Spirituality Press

Category: Martin Luther

  • An Interview with Herman Selderhuis about his book—Martin Luther: A Spiritual Biography

    Thank you for your willingness to be interviewed about your well written book. I think you have achieved your goal to give the reader an objective portrait of the great Protestant reformer Martin Luther. Here are some of my questions for you about your work: Given the numerous biographies written on Luther, what is the…

  • Martin Luther’s Influence on My Prayer Life

    I was once interviewed about my co-edited book Taking Hold of God: Reformed and Puritan Perspectives on Prayer (2011). The interviewer asked me this question: Which one of these godly men has influenced your prayers the most. Here’s my reply:   Allow me to give you two: Martin Luther (one from the Reformers) and John Bunyan…

  • Five Kinds of Hearers of God’s Word

    “But be doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving yourselves. For if anyone is a hearer of the word and not a doer, he is like a man who looks intently at his natural face in a mirror. For he looks at himself and goes away and at once forgets what he was…

  • When you pray, do you always pray to the Father in the name of the Son?

    While I normally offer my prayer to the Father, in the name of Jesus, with the help of the Holy Spirit, sometimes I address my prayer to the Spirit and sometimes to the Son. The German Protestant Reformer Martin Luther (1483-1546) said that when we pray to Jesus, we “need not worry that the Father…

  • Prayer—“the hardest work of all”

    Studying the subject of prayer has made me more aware of two basic truths: first, because of my indwelling sin, my soul acts unfriendly toward prayer; and second, because of my indwelling sin, I absolutely need the Holy Spirit’s assistance in order for me to pray. Prayer is such a difficult work that it requires…

  • Martin Luther on Prayer and Reformation

    Even in the busiest periods of the Reformation Luther averaged two hours of prayer daily. —   Andrew W. Kosten Not only was Martin Luther (1483–1546) the great Protestant Reformer, he was a great man of prayer as well. As he explains, prayer was foundational for his soul’s well-being: “Prayer includes every pursuit of the soul,…