Question to Consider:

* How do people display their faith?  By showing love, compassion, etc, etc, etc of other emotions from the heart. By dying for their faith and what they believe, like the martyrs. By doing anything they can to spread their own faith and beliefs to others.

Text Analysis:

1.  Compare Hooper's response to the first persecution he faced and the second:  His first, he claimed he was marride and did not believe in the sacraments. The second, he claimed the Roman Catholic Church was not the true church at all. {?}

What did John Hooper say to those who were urging him to flee the country after Mary became Queen?  "Once I did flee, but now I am thoroughly prepared to face what lies ahead. I will live and I will die with my sheep."

2.  What did Hooper say to Anthony Kingston when Kingston urged him to save his life by considering that "life is sweet and death is bitter"?  That the death to come is more bitter, and the life to come is more sweet.

How does this reflect his faith?  He has faith a small as a mustard seed {Jesus' quote}. In other words, he is confident he is going to live eternally in Heaven.

3.  Which martyr's faith and trust in the Lord has most struck you to this point and why?  John Wycliffe; he was one of the first men who stood up to the Roman church. Yet, he wasn't executed for His faith, so I'll pick one who did.  John Hooper; he amazes me how he stood his ground and didn't flee when Mary vecame queen. How he endured the long, horrid years in prison.

Cultural Analysis:

1. Where does our culture encourage us to place our trust and confidence?  In our job and money, family, government/politics.