Portraits of Faith

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...
Vintage portrait of Andrew Murray, the South African pastor and author of Abide in Christ, who witnessed the 1860 Worcester revival

Andrew Murray: The Revival He Tried to Stop

The prayer meeting would not quiet down. Sixty young people were crying out to...
Tall ship under full sail on open ocean, symbolizing George Liele's 1782 voyage from Savannah to Jamaica as the first Baptist missionary

George Liele: The First Baptist Missionary America Forgot

Every Baptist knows William Carey, the father of modern missions. Few know the man...
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...