All Saints’ Day • Revelation 7:9–17 • November 2, 2014


All Saints’ Day • Revelation 7:9–17 • November 2, 2014

By Erik Herrmann The celebration of saints has a checkered history in the church: raucous festivals around martyrs’ graves, prayers to saints to escape various kinds of sufferings, fantastical stories of their lives, and even trust in their merits. The reformers in the sixteenth century were concerned about these abuses and how such focus on the saints could supplant preaching ..