A Word from Bob: Today’s post is Part 7, and our final post, in a week-long blog mini-series on Reformation Week and the life and ministry of Martin Luther. You can read Part 1 here: How Do We Find Peace with a Holy God? You can read Part 2 here: Luther’s Spiritual Separation Anxiety. You can read Part 3 here: A Hopeless Sinner in the Hands of an Angry God. You can read Part 4 here: Works Do Not Work. You can read Part 5 here: Finding Peace with God. You can read Part 6 here: Luther Staked His Life on Christ. I’ve developed this blog mini-series from my book Counseling Under the Cross: How Martin Luther Applied the Gospel to Daily Life.
Luther’s Tower Experience
Luther’s tower experience is so called because it occurred in the tower of the Black Cloister in Wittenberg (later Luther’s home) at an undetermined date between 1508 and 1518. In later years, Luther often reflected on this experience and saw it as the breakthrough for which he had been searching:
“The words ‘righteous’ and ‘righteousness of God’ struck my conscience like lightning. When I heard them I was exceedingly terrified. If God is righteous
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