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It’s Part 2 in a three part series on the Reformation. Today we are talking about some women in the reformation and how their faithfulness encourages us to bear fruit in our own faithful service to God  We will learn about five characteristics the Reformation Woman possessed and be encouraged by a few reforming women’s stories.  Support the SPF Podcast Thanks for listening and letting me be a part of your day! I'm looking for a support team to help me keep the SPF Podcast going by teaming up with me to help cover website hosting, software and materials expenses. Be a part of the team for $5 a month by signing up at patreon.com/sheprovesfaithful LIFE HACK We don't always have time to pour over history books, but it doesn't mean we can learn and teach our young children. We are loving this book - great for elementary school and younger. Reformation ABC's Amazon Links are affiliate links meaning if you click on my link I get a small commission for my recommendation at no cost to you. Reformation ABCs: The People, Places, and Things of the Reformation―from A to Z $15.29 By Stephen J. Nichols The Women of the Reformation 500 years ago on October 31st 1517, Martin Luther nailed 95 theses to a church door in Wittenberg Germany.  The Reformation is quite remarkable and shows the amazing complex web God weaved to bring necessary reformation to the church. Two Books These are two great resources to learn more about these faithful women. The five characteristics of women in the Reformation were taken from Reformation Women by Rebecca VanDoodewaard. Radiant: Fifty Remarkable Women in Church History $18.00 By Richard M. Hannula Reformation Women: Sixteenth-Century Figures Who Shaped Christianity's Rebirth $13.98 By Rebecca VanDoodewaard   Five Characteristics of Reformation Women NO 1:  They were devoted to the protestant church "Sometimes their contributions to the Protestant church were direct, issuing edicts, writing theological works, establishing congregations, some involved indirectly by supporting their husbands, reviewing book manuscripts, sheltering refugees, AND EDUCATING their children to carry on the work. " - Rebecca VanDoodewaard Joel 2:6-13 NO 2: If they were married to believers, they were devoted to their husband’s work These faithful wives fanned giant flames of the Reformation by supporting their husbands, facilitating the work of preaching and pastoring that they were unable to do themselves. The Reformation THRIVED because of supportive faithful wives. NO 3: They were given to hospitality They took in  visiting pastors, orphans, refuges running for their lives, many times from other countries all because they were believing and confessing Scripture. They fed them, clothed them, encouraged them, sacrificing a great amounts of time, energy, and finances.  NO 4: They stewarded their intellectual abilities “Their education was a means of using God-given intellect in order to bear more fruit." - Rebecca Vandoodewaard These women were part of raising up a next generation of theologians! That’s us too - discipling women to Read the Word and obey the Words of God, teaching our children the commands of God, training us, our friends, our children to be thinkers and learners flushing all things through God sufficient word. NO 5: They were BRAVE! God opened the eyes of these women to the Truth and they saw it stood in stark opposition to the climate of their countries. They knew the course of action they needed to take and they obeyed God rather than man. Reformation Women Soup Lady - saving Geneva by faithfulness in her home - story in Reformation ABC's Margarethe Blaurer - Story in Reformation Women Anne Askew - Story in Radiant Other Women: Jeanne D'Albret- Story in Radiant and you can read her story online here Katie Luther - Story in Radiant and you can read her story online here Reformation Resources She Proves Faithful Podcast: The Reformation Part 1 - The Spark She Proves Faithful Podcast: The Five Solas She Proves Faithful Podcast: The Woman Who Fears the Lord Our Reformation Heritage by Pastor Albert N. Martin https://www.sermonaudio.com/sermoninfo.asp?SID=10270222537 Dr. Richard Gamble has a three part series on the History of the Reformation: Part One http://www.sermonaudio.com/sermoninfo.asp?SID=421089674 Part Twohttp://www.sermonaudio.com/sermoninfo.asp?SID=42808832220 Part Three http://www.sermonaudio.com/sermoninfo.asp?SID=512081059562 Calvinist - the documentary - Les Lanphere See the trailer here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=axjzInqdzBI Website: http://leslanphere.com Reformation Day Ideas Amazon Links are affiliate links meaning if you click on my link I get a small commission for my recommendation at no cost to you.   Heralds of the Reformation: Thirty Biographies of Sheer Grace $15.00 By Richard M. Hannula Radiant: Fifty Remarkable Women in Church History $18.00 By Richard M. Hannula Institutes of the Christian Religion $26.58 By John Calvin Reformation Women: Sixteenth-Century Figures Who Shaped Christianity's Rebirth $13.98 By Rebecca VanDoodewaard The Church History ABCs: Augustine and 25 Other Heroes of the Faith $15.58 By Stephen J. Nichols, Ned Bustard The Barber Who Wanted to Pray $12.17 By R. C. Sproul Martin Luther: A Man Who Changed The World $9.44 By Paul L. Maier Church History 101: The Highlights of Twenty Centuries $5.43 By Sinclair B. Ferguson, Joel R. Beeke, Michael A. G. Haykin