Martin Luther The Hero Of The

A study of Martin Luther's legacy explains how the view of Luther as prophet, teacher, and hero shaped the thought and action of his followers.

Describes Luther as he battled endowments. Student book for Grades 7-9.

In these eloquent essays, the noted scholar and activist Vincent Harding reflects on the forgotten legacy of Martin Luther King, Jr., and the meaning of his life today. Many of these reflections are inspired by the ambiguous message surrounding the official celebration of King's birthday. Harding sees a tendency to freeze an image of King from the period of his early leadership of the Civil Rights movement, the period culminating with his famous "I Have a Dream Speech". Harding writes passionately of King's later years, when his message and witness became more radical and challenging to the status quo at every level. In those final years before his assassination King took up the struggle against racism in the urban ghettos of the North; he became an eloquent critic of the Vietnam war; he laid the foundations for the Poor People's Campaign. This widening of his message and his tactics entailed controversy even within his own movement. But they point to a consistent expansion of his critique of American injustice and his solidarity with the oppressed. It was this spirit that brought him to Memphis in 1968 to lend his support to striking sanitation workers. It was there that he paid the final price for his prophetic witness.

Leading Luther scholars offer students and other non-specialists an accessible way to engage the big ideas of Luther's thinking.

All believers know they should pray. They want to be able to pray, but often they feel overwhelmed and wonder how to pray. If you feel empty and defeated in the place of prayer, this book is for you.The Lord's Prayer leads Christians into the joy of genuine fellowship with God. Here we examine the teachings of the Lord Jesus Christ--teachings so simple that we can all understand them and so profound that we can never exhaust them.The author shows that the secret of the Savior's lessons on prayer is in a vision of the greatness and glory of God that brings us into true heart-communion with God, as Christ has revealed Him.In the Lord's Prayer, the Savior teaches us to get beyond the rhetoric and pray effectively. Christ turns the prayer closet from a place of drudgery into one of delight--the nearest we can come to heaven on earth.