On the Journey

Ken Hensley and Matt Swaim continue their series looking at the life and thought of Martin Luther, and how his experiences shaped him to become the initiator of the Protestant Reformation. How did Luther, Calvin, and the other reformers respond to the theological chaos that followed from their own teaching of sola Scriptura and the right of private judgment? In this episode, Ken and Matt discuss the dilemma faced by the Reformers, and faced by every Protestant pastor: how to maintain commitment to the truth that, as Luther said, every Christian is “his own pope and church,” and at the same time to maintain unity in the Protestant movement. For more episodes, visit http://www.chnetwork.org/onthejourney Our online community: http://community.chnetwork.org Support our work: http://www.chnetwork.org/compass  

Ken Hensley and Matt Swaim continue their series looking at the life and thought of Martin Luther, and how his experiences shaped him to become the initiator of the Protestant Reformation. In this episode, Ken and Matt turn their attention from the material principle of the Reformation (sola fide) to the formal principle of the Reformation (sola scriptura) and discuss how Luther’s insistence that Scripture be taken to be the “sole infallible rule of faith and practice” for the Church and the individual Christian led to an unraveling; an unraveling in the realm of truth even more devastating than the unravelling of the doctrine of justification by faith alone led to in the realm of morals. More episodes: http://www.chnetwork.org/on-the-journey Our online community: http://community.chnetwork.org Support our work: http://www.chnetwork.org/compass

Ken Hensley and Matt Swaim continue their series looking at the life and thought of Martin Luther, and how his experiences shaped him to become the initiator of the Protestant Reformation. As Luther's doctrine of justification began to spread, it brought with it a moral unraveling that Luther lamented, but also admitted resulted from the widespread preaching of “faith alone.” Ken and Matt discuss some of Luther's own statements about the implications of this doctrine, and his frustration with how many were using it as an excuse to act immorally. For more episodes: http://www.chnetwork.org/onthejourney Our online community: http://community.chnetwork.org Support our work: http://www.chnetwork.org/compass

Ken Hensley and Matt Swaim continue their series looking at the life and thought of Martin Luther, and how his experiences shaped him to become the initiator of the Protestant Reformation. In this episode, Ken backs away from Luther’s story to tell another story — the story of how he, a Protestant for 20 years, and a Baptist pastor for part of that, came to leave behind Luther’s doctrine of justification by faith alone. For more episodes: http://www.chnetwork.org/onthejourney Our online community: http://community.chnetwork.org Support our work: http://www.chnetwork.org/compass

Ken Hensley and Matt Swaim continue their series looking at the life and thought of Martin Luther, and how his experiences shaped him to become the initiator of the Protestant Reformation. In this episode, they walk through Luther’s “discovery” of the doctrine of justification by "faith alone," the article of faith, Luther said, upon which the Church stands or falls, and how this answered his struggle to find peace with God. For more episodes: chnetwork.org/onthejourney

Ken Hensley and Matt Swaim continue their series looking at the life and thought of Martin Luther, and how his experiences shaped him to become the initiator of the Protestant Reformation. In this episode, they look at Luther’s time as an Augustinian monk, his struggle to find peace with God and the experience that brought him to doubt the teaching and authority of the Catholic Church. For more episodes, visit chnetwork.org/onthejourney.

Ken Hensley and Matt Swaim begin a series looking at the life and thought of Martin Luther, and how his experiences shaped him to become the initiator of the Protestant Reformation. They begin by looking at Luther's early years, and how his family life and his time leading up to entering the monastery formed him to understand God, and were the seed of theological ideas that would take form later on and lead to a fracture in Christendom. For more episodes, visit chnetwork.org.

In this final episode of the series, Ken Hensley describes how he and his family found a home in the Catholic Church in the years after he stepped down as a Baptist pastor. In the moment, all Ken could see were the difficulties. The wonderful things God had had planned for him -- and for his ever-growing family -- could only be seen with the benefit of hindsight. For more episodes, visit chnetwork.org/onthejourney.

Matt Swaim continues to interview former Baptist pastor Ken Hensley about his path to the Catholic Church. Once Ken Hensley resigned his ministry as a Baptist pastor to become Catholic, he was met with all sorts of challenges, from finding a job where he could use his gifts, to figuring out his identity now that everything he'd worked for in his ministry career to that point was gone. He shares what that experience did to his sense of himself, and his relationship with God. For more episodes, visit chnetwork.org/onthejourney.

Matt Swaim continues to interview former Baptist pastor Ken Hensley about his path to the Catholic Church. Once Ken decided to become Catholic, there were a number of massive questions he had to answer in his personal life. What about his marriage? His children? What was he going to do to make money, now that he was no longer a Baptist pastor? Ken shares some of the ways he wrestled with these issues on his way into the Catholic Church. For more episodes, visit chnetwork.org/onthejourney.