Do you hold to Solus Christus?
Scotland, Late 1543
Helen Stirk was struggling mightily to give birth. Her midwives, steeped in medieval superstition, urged her to call upon the Virgin Mary for help.
Helen refused. “I will call on God Himself,” she said. “I have as much right to go to Jesus as Mary has.”
That simple confession—that Christ alone is sufficient—sealed her fate.
January 1544
The chill of winter hung over Perth as Helen and her husband were arrested along with other believers for rejecting Roman Catholicism’s false gospel.
Helen was forced to watch as her husband was taken to the scaffold. She handed her unweaned child into the arms of friends, kissed her husband, and said through tears, “We shall meet again in the kingdom of heaven.”
Moments later, she was led to the edge of the icy River Tay. The waters bit at her feet as she was bound and thrown in. Eyewitnesses said she faced death with peace and confidence in her Savior—trusting that the One she had called upon in childbirth would receive her in glory.
Truly the world was not worthy of such a life.
Oh that God would give us such grace to cling to Christ so closely, to confess Him so boldly, to treasure His sufficiency so completely.
Scotland, Late 1543
Helen Stirk was struggling mightily to give birth. Her midwives, steeped in medieval superstition, urged her to call upon the Virgin Mary for help.
Helen refused. “I will call on God Himself,” she said. “I have as much right to go to Jesus as Mary has.”
That simple confession—that Christ alone is sufficient—sealed her fate.
January 1544
The chill of winter hung over Perth as Helen and her husband were arrested along with other believers for rejecting Roman Catholicism’s false gospel.
Helen was forced to watch as her husband was taken to the scaffold. She handed her unweaned child into the arms of friends, kissed her husband, and said through tears, “We shall meet again in the kingdom of heaven.”
Moments later, she was led to the edge of the icy River Tay. The waters bit at her feet as she was bound and thrown in. Eyewitnesses said she faced death with peace and confidence in her Savior—trusting that the One she had called upon in childbirth would receive her in glory.
Truly the world was not worthy of such a life.
Oh that God would give us such grace to cling to Christ so closely, to confess Him so boldly, to treasure His sufficiency so completely.
Do you hold to Solus Christus?
Scotland, Late 1543
Helen Stirk was struggling mightily to give birth. Her midwives, steeped in medieval superstition, urged her to call upon the Virgin Mary for help.
Helen refused. “I will call on God Himself,” she said. “I have as much right to go to Jesus as Mary has.”
That simple confession—that Christ alone is sufficient—sealed her fate.
January 1544
The chill of winter hung over Perth as Helen and her husband were arrested along with other believers for rejecting Roman Catholicism’s false gospel.
Helen was forced to watch as her husband was taken to the scaffold. She handed her unweaned child into the arms of friends, kissed her husband, and said through tears, “We shall meet again in the kingdom of heaven.”
Moments later, she was led to the edge of the icy River Tay. The waters bit at her feet as she was bound and thrown in. Eyewitnesses said she faced death with peace and confidence in her Savior—trusting that the One she had called upon in childbirth would receive her in glory.
Truly the world was not worthy of such a life.
Oh that God would give us such grace to cling to Christ so closely, to confess Him so boldly, to treasure His sufficiency so completely.
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