True Stories of Faith

Read reflections offering guidance on everyday Christian living.

Wooden cross silhouetted against a dramatic golden sunset over mountain peaks — Jesus paid the debt of sin and rose so you would know it is true

Why Did Jesus Have to Die?

06/18/2026
A father once paid a debt his son could not see. The bill had...
Devotional / Faith
Lottie Moon, Southern Baptist missionary to China who died Christmas Eve 1912

Lottie Moon’s Last Christmas: The Seed That Fed Millions

06/17/2026
They had to carry her onto the ship. She weighed fifty pounds. Charlotte "Lottie"...
Christian Living / Devotional / Encouragement / Faith
Dramatic sun rays burst through clouds at golden hour — the second birth, being made new from the inside

What Does It Mean to Be Born Again?

06/16/2026
He came when no one could see him. Nicodemus was a teacher in Israel,...
Devotional / Faith
A narrow mountain trail climbs a grassy ridge toward a sunrise summit, evoking the path of costly discipleship that Bonhoeffer described in The Cost of Discipleship.

What Is Costly Discipleship? Bonhoeffer’s Cost of Discipleship in Plain English

06/15/2026
Dietrich Bonhoeffer was thirty-one years old, sitting at a desk in a small German...
Devotional / Faith / Portraits of Faith
John Newton, Anglican minister and former slave trader who wrote Amazing Grace

John Newton: The Slave Trader Who Helped End Slavery

06/15/2026
The Atlantic had turned black. Wind tore through the rigging. Waves crashed clean over...
Christian Living / Devotional / Encouragement / Faith
Sun rising over a sweeping mountain ridge — Where Heaven Came Down

Where Heaven Came Down: Week of June 13, 2026

06/13/2026
Where Heaven Came Down: stories of God breaking through, around the world and around...
Devotional / Where Heaven Came Down
George Müller, founder of the Bristol orphan houses, the Prussian-born minister whose ten thousand orphans were fed on prayer alone

George Müller: The Life That Proved God Answers Prayer

06/12/2026
George Müller began as a teenage thief who stole from his own father. He...
Christian Living / Devotional / Encouragement / Faith
Portrait of Dwight L. Moody, 19th-century American evangelist and founder of Moody Bible Institute. Library of Congress, public domain.

The Shoe Clerk Who Shook the World

06/10/2026
A Sunday school teacher stood on the sidewalk outside a Boston shoe store, working...
Devotional / Faith / Portraits of Faith / Trust God
Oil portrait of Samuel Rutherford by Robert Walker, Scottish pastor, theologian, and author of Lex Rex.

The Summons Samuel Rutherford Already Had

06/08/2026
The men who came to Samuel Rutherford’s door carried a death warrant in everything...
Devotional / Faith / Portraits of Faith / Trust God
Sun rising over a sweeping mountain ridge — Where Heaven Came Down

Where Heaven Came Down: Week of June 6, 2026

06/06/2026
Friend, heaven is moving. He is moving in stadiums and in war zones, in...
Devotional / Where Heaven Came Down