{"id":5966,"date":"2008-10-31T09:07:02","date_gmt":"2008-10-31T09:07:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/reformedchicksblabbing\/2008\/10\/happy-reformation-day-1.html"},"modified":"2008-10-31T09:07:02","modified_gmt":"2008-10-31T09:07:02","slug":"happy-reformation-day-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/reformedchicksblabbing\/2008\/10\/happy-reformation-day-1.html","title":{"rendered":"Happy Reformation Day!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>To celebrate, I thought we could sing what&#8217;s become the hymn of the Reformation: &#8220;A Mighty Fortress is Our God.&#8221; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hymnsite.com\/lyrics\/umh110.sht\">Here are the words in case you don&#8217;t know it<\/a>. Here&#8217;s a video of Steven Green singing it a capella:<object width=\"425\" height=\"344\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/NRJHKzU_t1M&#038;hl=en&#038;fs=1\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\"><\/param><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/NRJHKzU_t1M&#038;hl=en&#038;fs=1\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" width=\"425\" height=\"344\"><\/embed><\/object>For those of you who miss the organ can sing to this video:<object width=\"425\" height=\"344\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/wiRpUtVByxU&#038;hl=en&#038;fs=1\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\"><\/param><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/wiRpUtVByxU&#038;hl=en&#038;fs=1\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" width=\"425\" height=\"344\"><\/embed><\/object>Then enjoy a cute video (which I think I&#8217;ve posted before) on the gist of the Reformation. If you don&#8217;t know how it started, this video will give you some idea:<object width=\"425\" height=\"344\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/b4TeJJmQJqU&#038;hl=en&#038;fs=1\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\"><\/param><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/b4TeJJmQJqU&#038;hl=en&#038;fs=1\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" width=\"425\" height=\"344\"><\/embed><\/object>Then I thought we could read the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.spurgeon.org\/~phil\/history\/95theses.htm\">95 Thesis that Luther nailed to the door of the church in Wittenberg 491 years ago<\/a>. BTW, he didn&#8217;t intend to start a movement when he nailed the document to the door (as if it were a declaration of independence from the Catholic church :-), he was interested in a debate and that was the way to start one in his day. He didn&#8217;t want to start his own church, he was interested in reforming the Catholic church as were many others in his day.And finally, for your listening pleasure, the Martin Luther rap:<object width=\"425\" height=\"344\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/uHey8fExPxo&#038;hl=en&#038;fs=1\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\"><\/param><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/uHey8fExPxo&#038;hl=en&#038;fs=1\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" width=\"425\" height=\"344\"><\/embed><\/object>And as a bonus, the Lego version of Luther nailing the 95 Thesis to the door:<object width=\"425\" height=\"344\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/1-61IKiGIZo&#038;hl=en&#038;fs=1\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\"><\/param><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/1-61IKiGIZo&#038;hl=en&#038;fs=1\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" width=\"425\" height=\"344\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To celebrate, I thought we could sing what&#8217;s become the hymn of the Reformation: &#8220;A Mighty Fortress is Our God.&#8221; Here are the words in case you don&#8217;t know it. Here&#8217;s a video of Steven Green singing it a capella:For those of you who miss the organ can sing to this video:Then enjoy a cute&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":119,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,402],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5966","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-christianity","category-religion-2"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Happy Reformation Day! - Reformed Chicks Blabbing<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/reformedchicksblabbing\/2008\/10\/happy-reformation-day-1.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Happy Reformation Day! - Reformed Chicks Blabbing\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"To celebrate, I thought we could sing what&#8217;s become the hymn of the Reformation: &#8220;A Mighty Fortress is Our God.&#8221; Here are the words in case you don&#8217;t know it. 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