In this first in a series of four Benefit Lectures, we will follow in the footsteps of Martin Luther and explore one of the most significant castles in the world: the Wartburg in Eisenach, Germany. Founded in the eleventh century and maintaining its rank as one of the centers of European power until the fourteenth century, the Wartburg had already fallen out of prominence by the time that Luther here translated the New Testament from May 1521‒March 1522. We will see how Luther's translation of the Bible sustained the Reformation and how God does his most important works in our times of confinement and waiting.