Luther

Martin Luther was a very brave man who changed the direction that the Roman Catholic Church was taking everyone in the 1500s. He was a reformist who stood up against the Catholic Church in hopes of sharing the truth to the people.
 Martin Luther was born in Eisleben, November 10,1483 and died there on February 18, 1546.  He did not have a very good home life.  His father beat  his mom and him severely. He admitted that it was him home life that made him pursue the monastery life style. This was a big part of his life because without his father being hard on him and his mother, he may have not ended up where he did. I think this shows that God had bigger plans for him and He used hard times in his life to bring GREAT things out of it.  Many times God does this to us and we just have to trust Him like Martin Luther did. The movie did show the relationship he had with his father while he was in the monastery.
Not long later Marting Luther began his lectures.  They started off already criticizing the theology around him. I think this is very brave of him.  He is not worried about what others think of him, or if people like him.  He just tells them what he feels lead to tell them.  The movie makes it seem like he was really focused on reaching the peasants with his messages.  He would walk around the villages talking to them and introducing himself to them.  I thought it was interesting to see everyone that came to his church and the vast variety of types of people there were.  It looked like there were rich people and very poor people.  The movie kept showing him with this woman and her mentally handicapped daughter.  It made it seem like not very many of the priests would go around talking with the peasants and that Marting Luther was a very kind man and knew what was the right thing to do. Another time I saw this character of him was when he was walking through town and there was a teenage boy that hung himself and Luther climbed up there himself and got the boy down.  And not only that but then he went against the church's belief that the boy could not be buried in there because he had committed suicide and had the boy buried in the cemetery. Since the grave person wouldn't dig the grave for boy Martin Luther went and dug the grave himself. Whether these stories are really true or not, they would not just make him look that way for no reason. He had to be caring and loving.
One thing that he really stood up against was indulgences.  Indulgences were a Roman Catholic Church invention to earn money.  What better way to earn money from people without a riot than to guilt them into it? And what is the best way to guilt them into giving money? By telling them that they can save their dead family members from spending more time in purgatory.  The person who came up with this was a genius.... a very bad genius.  But Martin Luther did not stand for this.  He wrote a list of things that the church was doing wrong with indulgences and posted it on the door of the church and sent one to the archbishop. These were the Ninety-Five Theses. In the movie someone got ahold of one and made alot of copies of it and handed it out to people.  People began to love Luther and what he stood for. 
God used Martin Luther in a BIG way. I think that he was so brave. He risked his life for God and did not even try to do it in secret. He didn't go around whispering to people that indulgences were wrong. No he went and marched up to the church doors and nailed a critique of them... (not a pleasant one) on the door. That is brave.
(www.newadvent.org & www.ccel.org) And the "Luther" the movie.