Berlin, Germany. This is a city rich with history, stories that contrast starkly. I was blessed this last month to visit and learn about this city's past and hear the stories and see the places where Godly and devilish things occured. This is the land of Luther and it is the land of Adolf Hitler. Hitler has left a city marked and scared with people whose faces are hardened by hardship, sorrow and darkness. According to the Pergamum Museum display, the stories of Daniel in Babylon are "mythos", myths. The truth is a myth, yet there stand cathedrals full of architectural beauty products of those who believed these "mythos". They are products of Martin Luther's teaching, the Gospel of faith in Jesus Christ.
Berlin holds the historic sites of the old Nazi Secret Service headquarters and holds the home and church of Martin Luther in Wittenberg. The German people refute both and stand lost without a foundation, without a comforting rock of strength. How difficult to minister in a land hardened to the truth.
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