Christian Living

Fanny Crosby, blind 19th-century hymn writer who composed over 8,000 hymns including Blessed Assurance

Fanny Crosby: The Blind Woman Who Wrote 8,000 Hymns

07/01/2026
When Fanny Crosby was six weeks old, a traveling doctor treated her infected eyes...
Christian Living / Devotional / Encouragement / 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
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
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 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

06/05/2026
Horatio Spafford stood at the railing of a ship in the middle of the...
Christian Living / Devotional / Faith
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

06/04/2026
The coal dust never quite washed off his hands. By day, Evan Roberts swung...
Christian Living / Devotional / Encouragement / Faith
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

06/04/2026
At noon on September 23, 1857, a failed businessman named Jeremiah Lanphier sat alone...
Christian Living / Devotional / Faith
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

06/03/2026
A three-year-old girl in Ireland knelt by her bed and asked God for blue...
Christian Living / Devotional / Faith
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

06/02/2026
In the summer of 1939, Dietrich Bonhoeffer was safe. The young German theologian had...
Christian Living / Devotional / Faith / Suffering
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

06/01/2026
In 1906, William Seymour stepped off a train in Los Angeles with a Bible,...
Christian Living / Devotional / Faith / Revival