Faith

Portrait of Horatio Spafford, the Chicago lawyer who wrote the hymn It Is Well With My Soul after losing his four daughters in an Atlantic shipwreck in 1873

Horatio Spafford: The Story Behind It Is Well with My Soul

Horatio Spafford stood at the railing of a ship in the middle of the...
Evan Roberts, the 26-year-old Welsh miner whose prayer "Lord, bend me" sparked the 1904 Welsh Revival

When Heaven Visited Wales: The 1904 Awakening

The coal dust never quite washed off his hands. By day, Evan Roberts swung...
Portrait of Jeremiah Calvin Lanphier (1809-1898), the businessman whose noon prayer meeting sparked the 1857 Fulton Street Revival in New York City

The Man Who Prayed Alone: The 1857 Fulton Street Revival

At noon on September 23, 1857, a failed businessman named Jeremiah Lanphier sat alone...
Amy Carmichael with rescued children at the Dohnavur Fellowship in India, where she rescued temple children for 55 years

Amy Carmichael: The Prayer God Answered with No

A three-year-old girl in Ireland knelt by her bed and asked God for blue...
Dietrich Bonhoeffer portrait, who chose to leave safety in New York in 1939 and return to Nazi Germany, where he was executed at Flossenburg in April 1945.

He Boarded the Last Ship: What Dietrich Bonhoeffer Teaches Us About Costly Faith

In the summer of 1939, Dietrich Bonhoeffer was safe. The young German theologian had...
William J. Seymour, the Black Holiness preacher who led the 1906 Azusa Street Revival in Los Angeles after being locked out of his first Los Angeles pulpit.

The Man Nobody Wanted: William Seymour and the Azusa Street Revival

In 1906, William Seymour stepped off a train in Los Angeles with a Bible,...
Newborn infant cradled in a parent's hands, illustrating rachamim — the Hebrew word for womb-deep compassion in Isaiah 49

Rachamim: The Hebrew Word That Reveals the Deep Compassion of God

On a Sunday evening in May 2011, Grace Aquino was at her Baptist church...
What does the Bible say about anxiety? A pastor’s answer rooted in Philippians 4 and Matthew 6

What Does the Bible Really Say About Anxiety?

She set the phone down at 3:14 a.m. The blue light still hovered on...
What Does the Bible Say About Marriage?

What Does the Bible Say About Marriage?

I don't know how many times I have preached Ephesians 5, or how many...
What is Spiritual Warfare? A Believer's Guide to Ephesians 6

What is Spiritual Warfare? A Believer’s Guide to Ephesians 6

Spiritual Warfare. It's a war we fight in our minds and hearts. The best...