I've never seen a happy or friendly looking portrait of Martin Luther. But if you've read much Luther, you realize what a great sense of humor he had. My wife and I wanted to make something for our pastor for Christmas this year. As much as I thought that he'd appreciate one of those "suffer the little children to come unto me" pictures of Jesus- I just couldn't bring myself to do it, they're SO many of them. And I don't know whether I could capture either Jesus or a bunch of children successfully. I'm not saying that they should re-make the 2003 movie "Luther" and replace Joseph Fiennes with Jack Black in the role of Luther or anything, but I don't see why he can't be portrayed as a jovial and approachable paternal or even grandfatherly type. Why must he always be so stern and sober?
"You have as much laughter as you have faith" ~Martin Luther
"If you are not allowed to laugh in heaven, I don't want to go there." ~Martin Luther
"The best way to drive out the devil, if he will not yield to Scripture, is to jeer and flout him, for he cannot bear scorn." ~Martin Luther
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We live in the first age of the smiley picture I think. I look at old pictures in the church from the 1930's, and we see that both Pastors and confirmation classes have grim and serious expressions. We seem to have allot of pressure in our time to look happy and laughing in our pictures. So whether we are happy or not, we smile to look pleasant.
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