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Lineage Journey Lineage is a multi faceted educational tool that explores our spiritual heritage showing the connecti

Lineage is a multi faceted educational tool that explores our spiritual heritage showing the connection between the past and the present.

Preordena tu copia de la traducción al español de The Great Controversy! Pre-order your copy of the Spanish translation ...
09/03/2026

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Pre-order your copy of the Spanish translation of The Great Controversy!

09/01/2026

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09/01/2026

For centuries, Christians lived under a Roman system that could persecute them for their faith.

Then, in 313, something important changed.

Constantine and Licinius reached an agreement commonly known as the Edict of Milan, granting religious toleration and restoring property that had been taken from Christians during earlier persecution.

But there is an important detail that often gets lost.

313 did not make Christianity the official religion of the Roman Empire.

It changed its legal position.

That distinction matters.

Christianity's relationship with the Roman state continued to develop over the following decades, and in 380, Emperor Theodosius I issued the Edict of Thessalonica, which gave official status to Nicene Christianity.

So when we look back at Christian history, we have to resist the temptation to compress decades of change into one event.

History is more complicated.

And sometimes, the detail we almost skip is the detail that changes the whole story.

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Marie Durand | Women in Christian HistoryThis episode of the Sisters of Light podcast explores the remarkable story of M...
08/19/2026

Marie Durand | Women in Christian History

This episode of the Sisters of Light podcast explores the remarkable story of Marie Doron, a French Protestant (Huguenot) who spent 38 years imprisoned in the Tower of Constance for her faith and family connections. The hosts discuss the historical context of the Edict of Nantes and its revocation by Louis XIV in 1685, which stripped Protestants of their religious freedoms overnight. Marie’s story begins with trauma at age eight when her mother was taken during a raid on a secret Protestant service, and her brother Pierre became a wanted preacher. At nineteen, Marie was arrested and imprisoned to pressure her brother to stop preaching. Despite brutal conditions in the tower, where women were pressured to recant their faith, Marie remained steadfast for nearly four decades, reportedly carving the word ‘resist’ in the prison. The discussion emphasizes themes of faith, hope, perseverance, and religious liberty, drawing parallels to biblical figures and examining how believers can maintain hope during persecution. The hosts reflect on the power of Scripture, particularly the Psalms, in sustaining faith through trials, and discuss how true faith involves seeing circumstances through the filter of God’s word rather than human perspective.





“From the beginning of my Reformation I have asked God to send me neither dreams, nor visions, nor angels, but to give m...
08/18/2026

“From the beginning of my Reformation I have asked God to send me neither dreams, nor visions, nor angels, but to give me the right understanding of His Word, the Holy Scriptures; for as long as I have God’s Word, I know that I am walking in His way and that I shall not fall into any error or delusion” - 🗣️ Martin Luther





08/18/2026

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The Swiss Reformation was shaped by the tireless efforts of Ulrich Zwingli, a humanist priest from the Alpine village of...
08/13/2026

The Swiss Reformation was shaped by the tireless efforts of Ulrich Zwingli, a humanist priest from the Alpine village of Wildhaus. Zwingli himself was shaped by three main influences in his life; the first was that of his grandmother, who would frequently call him to her side and tell him stories from the Bible. These times of storytelling would fascinate and enthrall him and created in his heart a deep love for God. The second influence in his life was the time spent as a young boy listening to the stories of Swiss history, told by his father’s friends who would gather at the Zwingli home on cold winter evenings.These stories created a deep love for his native land in his heart. The third influence that shaped him was that of the books he devoured while he was at school. Works by the great Greek and Latin philosophers like Scipio, Seneca, Demosthenes, and Cicero deeply influenced his thinking.

In the Roman Catholic world at the time the church embraced two distinct methods that would help an individual obtain salvation. The first, was the method Luther had risen up against, that of salvation by works of merit. The second was the premise of salvation by scholastic or rationalistic methodology, which basically meant that in order for one to obtain God’s favor that individual must obey a system of rules and laws through which he could then receive divine enlightenment. It was a system of salvation through intellectual enlightenment and it was this branch of Romanism that Zwingli embraced. He gravitated towards this system because he had been deeply impacted by some of its most brilliant proponents like Erasmus and Wittenbach.

But all this changed when Zwingli personally discovered the power and beauty of Scripture and as he read and studied the Word of God he came to the conclusion that the Bible and not rationalistic thought was the sole authority on how a man could be saved. It was this principle that lay that root of the Swiss Reformation and it was this principle that was its foundation.

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In 1728 Marie and Pierre’s father Etienne Durand was arrested and killed. Then in 1532 Pierre was arrested and put to de...
08/11/2026

In 1728 Marie and Pierre’s father Etienne Durand was arrested and killed. Then in 1532 Pierre was arrested and put to death as well. Shortly before Pierre’s arrest, Marie was married to Matthew Seres. However, about a month after their wedding Matthew was imprisoned as well. Not long after Marie herself was arrested and imprisoned for being the sister of a Huguenot preacher and an active member of a Huguenot congregation. She was nineteen years old and newly married at the time of her arrest.

She was taken to the Tower of Constance where she was to spend the next 38 years of her life behind a large door inscribed with the words “All hope abandon, ye who enter here”. The prison was a circular stone room with a six-foot circular hole at the top which let in a small amount of air and light as well as snow and rain. Food came through a similar hole in the floor. Freezing through winter and sweltering through summer Marie and the other women imprisoned in the tower languished there for nearly 40 years, enduring the harshest and most unsanitary conditions imaginable.

However, though only a young girl of 19 Marie Durand refused to be broken by her circumstances and she rose up to be a leader among the women in the Tower. She encouraged them to preserve hope and faith in God even amidst the squalor and wretchedness of their surroundings. She led them in prayer and song, advocated improvements in their living conditions and actively petitioned the authorities for a book of psalms to be given to all the women.

The story of Marie Durand is so compelling because it portrays the indomitable spirit of a young woman, who, in the face of terrible oppression and injustice, chose to shape her circumstances instead of allowing them to shape her. The tool she used to accomplish this task was her unwavering and unyielding faith in God. It proved to be the sharpest implement she ever wielded. It was also the only effective tool she had at her disposal. The same tool is available to us, may we be unafraid and unashamed to use it.

Listen to her story in our latest Podcast with Suki Goonatilleke Aiko Reichard Ramdin Charlene Coutet & Chingy



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07/31/2026

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Whether you’ve followed us for years or are just discovering Lineage Journey, we’d love to say hello and connect with you!

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Dividing his work into three broad categories Luther confessed that while he was blunter than he should have been he cou...
07/30/2026

Dividing his work into three broad categories Luther confessed that while he was blunter than he should have been he could not with a clear conscience retract any of his opinions. He was then asked to translate everything he had just said in German into Latin, after which Aleander urged him “revocco (recant)” to which he calmly replied “ Unless I am convinced by Scripture and plain reason – I do not accept the authority of popes and councils, for they have contradicted each other – my conscience is captive to the word of God. I cannot and I will not recant anything, for to go against conscience is neither right nor safe. Here I stand, I cannot do otherwise. God help me. Amen”.

The pin had dropped and the sound of the silence that surrounded its fall was deafening. The diet was dumbfounded and after deliberating their next course of action decided against martyring Luther. The religion of Jesus Christ would never be the same again because one man chose to stand unflinchingly in the face of a raging behemoth and the diminutive David slew the giant Goliath with the power of God’s word. Where are God’s Davids today?





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