‘Lux Lucet in Tenebris’ is the Waldensian motto and it translates as ‘A Light out of Darkness.’ Hunted and persecuted they often had to retreat into the bowels of the earth and worship God in the shelter of caves - but even in the darkness their light shone brightly.

<p>‘Lux Lucet in Tenebris’ is the Waldensian motto and it translates as ‘A Light out of Darkness.’ Hunted and persecuted they often had to retreat into the bowels of the earth and worship God in the shelter of caves - but even in the darkness their light shone brightly.</p>

Adam Ramdin

Lineage: Season 1

Episode 1- Constantine: Compromise & Controversy

Episode 2- Scotland’s Braveheart

Episode 3- Holy Island

Episode 4- The Tide Turns

Episode 5- Dinooth & Columbanus

Episode 6- Waldenses: People of the Valleys

Episode 7- The Waldenses: A Mission Movement

Episode 8- The Waldenses: Lux Lucet In Tenebris

Episode 9- The Albigensian Massacre

Episode 10- Magna Carta: The Foundation of Freedom

Episode 11- John Wycliffe: The Morning Star

Episode 12- Bohemian Reformation: Huss & Jerome

Episode 13- Bohemian Reformation: Trial of Huss & Jerome

Episode 14- Bohemian Reformation: Burned for Their Faith

Episode 15- Bohemian Reformation: Hussite Wars

Episode 16- John Wycliffe: Worldwide Witness

Episode 17- The Press Behind the Reformation

Episode 18- Martin Luther: Discovering The Word

Episode 19- Martin Luther: The Just Shall Live By Faith

Episode 20- Ulrich Zwingli: The Swiss Reformation

Episode 21- Martin Luther: The 95 Theses

Episode 22: The Papal Bull & Martin Luther

Episode 23: Martin Luther - Here I Stand

Episode 24: Martin Luther - Captured To A Castle

Episode 25: Martin Luther - Protest of the Princes

Episode 26: John Calvin - Early Years in France

Episode 27: Placards and Protest in France

Episode 28: John Calvin - The Work in Geneva

Episode 29: Geneva - International Hub of Reform

Episode 30: Scandinavian Reformation

Episode 31: William Tyndale

Episode 32: George Wishart - Scotland’s Forgotten Forerunner

Episode 33: John Knox - Scotland’s Greatest Reformer

Episode 34: John Knox - Showdown At Holyrood

Episode 35: The Waldenses Meet the Reformation

Episode 36: Ridley And Latimer Light A Candle

Episode 37: Thomas Cranmer - Cowardice and Courage

Episode 38: Saint Bartholomew’s Day Massacre

Episode 39: The Spanish Armada

Episode 40: Guy Fawkes & The Gunpowder Plot

Episode 41: The Mayflower

Episode 42: Martin Luther- The Protest Is Not Over

Episode 43: The Waldenses- Massacre at Castelluzzo

Episode 44: Marie Durand- Righteous Resistance

Episode 45: John Wesley- The Origins of Methodism

Episode 46: John Wesley & George Whitfield

Episode 47: Mary Jones & World Mission

Episode 48: Is the Reformation Over?

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[♪dramatic music playing♪ In the early centuries, Rome would lay down the challenge. Either abide by how we want you to live, or leave your place of residence and leave your place of worship. And the Waldensians treasured God's Word more than they treasured their home, and so they would leave and go up into the mountains. [♪ music ♪ Life would not have been easy here in the Waldensian Valleys. The children growing up would have had to learn very quickly the lessons of self-sacrifice and self-denial, frugality, and economy.

Their parents treasured these principles from the Bible, and they wished to bestow them upon their children. They treasured them so much that they retreated up here. And here in the mountains they wanted to teach 2 things. Number 1, they wanted to teach them purity of life based on God's Word. And number 2, they wanted to teach them to be a missionary and take the faith that they had and take it further afield than just the valleys in which they live.

And So they would have schools up here, and they would have places of worship, sometimes in caves, where they could teach their children and their young people how they could go out as missionaries and share this message. [♪ music ♪ The Waldensians were persecuted for their faith. The Waldensians fervently believed in the Bible. They believed that they should follow it, and they treasured it. The Wodentians believed in the commandments of God that had been given through the Bible, and they sought to keep them.

And they were often persecuted for their faith and had to retreat up to the higher valleys. And here in this place of worship, it's just a cave. Today you come here, you have to creep down through the entrance to get in. The rock walls are on each side. But here in this cave it's almost a sacred spot.

It's a place where they would gather together for worship, but also at times they would gather together to hide from the Roman soldiers. [♪ music ♪ To me it's encouraging to know that even when they were scattered in the mountains, they would still find time to worship together. And I believe it's very important that we today meet together with fellow believers and worship. But the thing that stands out to me here in this place of... That's not that pretty by earthly standards.

There's no gold-plated pulpit. There's no marble table. There's just rocks. They're wet, but it's the quietness and the peace and the simplicity and the purity of this place that is striking. It's that if these Waldensians would gather here, not just once, it wasn't just a one-off.

It may have been repeatedly, it may have been over years, or may have been even over decades that they would gather together to worship in caves like this that are dotted around these mountains. For us, church is so comfortable or so convenient. I'm sat on a cold rock, but oftentimes in church we sit on nice comfy chairs. The heating may be on, it may just be 5 miles from our house or just down the road, and yet sometimes we think, ah, I'm not too keen to go. And I think back to myself, yourself, wherever we are.

We have a time of relative peace, a time of relative freedom, where we can gather together and worship, where we can meet fellow believers. And my appeal is don't waste the opportunities that you have. Don't be so comfortable or so convenient that we miss the opportunities that we do have. God has given us great opportunities now. Let's take advantage and use them and take this message to the world around us.

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Episode 1- Constantine: Compromise & Controversy

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Episode 2- Scotland’s Braveheart

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Episode 3- Holy Island

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Episode 4- The Tide Turns

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Episode 5- Dinooth & Columbanus

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Episode 6- Waldenses: People of the Valleys

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Episode 7- The Waldenses: A Mission Movement

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Episode 8- The Waldenses: Lux Lucet In Tenebris

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Episode 9- The Albigensian Massacre

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Episode 10- Magna Carta: The Foundation of Freedom

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Episode 11- John Wycliffe: The Morning Star

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Episode 12- Bohemian Reformation: Huss & Jerome

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Episode 13- Bohemian Reformation: Trial of Huss & Jerome

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Episode 14- Bohemian Reformation: Burned for Their Faith

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Episode 15- Bohemian Reformation: Hussite Wars

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Episode 16- John Wycliffe: Worldwide Witness

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Episode 17- The Press Behind the Reformation

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Episode 18- Martin Luther: Discovering The Word

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Episode 19- Martin Luther: The Just Shall Live By Faith

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Episode 20- Ulrich Zwingli: The Swiss Reformation

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Episode 21- Martin Luther: The 95 Theses

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Episode 22: The Papal Bull & Martin Luther

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Episode 23: Martin Luther - Here I Stand

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Episode 24: Martin Luther - Captured To A Castle

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Episode 25: Martin Luther - Protest of the Princes

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Episode 26: John Calvin - Early Years in France

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Episode 27: Placards and Protest in France

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Episode 28: John Calvin - The Work in Geneva

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Episode 29: Geneva - International Hub of Reform

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Episode 30: Scandinavian Reformation

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Episode 31: William Tyndale

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Episode 32: George Wishart - Scotland’s Forgotten Forerunner

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Episode 33: John Knox - Scotland’s Greatest Reformer

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Episode 34: John Knox - Showdown At Holyrood

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Episode 35: The Waldenses Meet the Reformation

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Episode 36: Ridley And Latimer Light A Candle

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