Encouragement

Sunrise over open country, evoking the dawn A. W. Tozer saw from a train window arriving in Texas

A. W. Tozer and the Night Train to Texas

A porter on a train out of Chicago brought a small man his toast...
Reuben Archer Torrey portrait, evangelist and Bible Institute leader (1856-1928)

R. A. Torrey: The Sentence His Mother Said He Could Not Outrun

At fifteen, R. A. Torrey stood in the doorway of his family home in...
F. B. Meyer, Baptist preacher who pastored Melbourne Hall Leicester and Christ Church London

F. B. Meyer: The One Key He Would Not Hand Over

F. B. Meyer knelt in a quiet English house with a ring of keys...
Hudson Taylor, founder of the China Inland Mission, portrait from 1893

Hudson Taylor and the Prayer That Opened China

He slipped out of church in the middle of the service. Behind him a...
Phillips Brooks, Bishop of Massachusetts and author of O Little Town of Bethlehem

Phillips Brooks: The Failure Behind a Beloved Christmas Carol

The twenty-year-old teacher packed his books and walked out of Boston Latin School in...
Samuel Kaboo Morris, the Liberian prince who crossed an ocean to learn about the Holy Spirit

Samuel Morris: The Prince Who Heard God’s Voice

A teenage prince hung in ropes in a Liberian jungle camp, beaten daily, waiting...
RMS Titanic ready for launch in 1911 — John Harper boarded her for her maiden voyage

John Harper: The Preacher on the Titanic

The water was twenty-eight degrees when John Harper went in. He had a life...
A solitary ship crossing a stormy sea at dawn, a picture of faith holding steady through suffering

Why Does God Allow Suffering? A Pastor’s Honest Answer

In November of 1873 a Chicago attorney named Horatio Spafford stood on the deck...
Vintage jewelry box, like the one Frances Havergal packed with joy to give away to missions

Frances Ridley Havergal: The Box She Packed with Joy

A woman in England sat at her desk packing nearly fifty pieces of jewelry...
Open Bible by candlelight, the kind of evening Matthew Henry sat down to write his diary of thanks

Matthew Henry: Robbed and Still Thankful

He walked home in the dark with empty pockets. Then he sat down and...