Saint Athanasius Lutheran Church

Here I stand. Those words were not first uttered 500 years ago today, but they were most famously uttered 500 years ago today. This year, we remember another 500th anniversary, and that is, the Diet of Worms. Now while that's one of the best known things Luther ever said, he probably wasn't the first to say it, and he certainly wasn't the first to do it. That honor I would give to the Apostles. Now if you're like me, you admire Luther and Peter and John and all the rest of the Apostles and all the early Christian martyrs for doing that -- for standing firm in the face of danger and death and saying here I stand! But the reason they could is the same reason we can: because Christ is risen!