Portraits of Faith

A misty Welsh valley between mountain ridges, evoking the lonely road where Christmas Evans climbed the mountainside to wrestle in prayer and got his fire back.

The Mountain Where Christmas Evans Got His Fire Back

06/29/2026
He rode into the Welsh mountains with a cold heart. Hours later he came...
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Snowcapped mountain peaks under dramatic clouds with a green tree line below, evoking Psalm 46:1 — God is our refuge and strength.

The Unfinished Baptism: The Civil War Revival of 1863

06/26/2026
By 1863, the Civil War had become a slaughter. And in the freezing winter...
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Portrait of Mary McLeod Bethune, educator, civil rights leader, and founder of Bethune-Cookman College. Library of Congress, public domain.

The Detour That Changed Everything

06/24/2026
Mary McLeod Bethune spent years preparing to be a missionary to Africa. Then the...
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Rows of antique leather-bound books on wooden library shelves, evoking the Oxford rooms where C.S. Lewis studied and read.

C.S. Lewis: The Question Nobody Wants to Answer Honestly

06/22/2026
C.S. Lewis was one of the most committed atheists in Britain, a brilliant Oxford...
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Eric Liddell — Scottish Olympic runner who refused to compete on Sunday at the 1924 Paris Olympics. Take 5 daily devotional Episode 23.

Eric Liddell: The Runner Who Gave Up Gold

06/19/2026
Pull up a chair. This is a story about a runner who refused to...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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Hebrides Revival 1949 — a Scottish coastal village in the Hebrides, the setting where two elderly sisters on the Isle of Lewis prayed Isaiah 44:3 and sparked one of the great revivals of the 20th century.

The Prayer That Sparked a Revival: Lessons from the Hebrides, 1949

05/27/2026
Stone walls. A peat fire. Two old sisters on their knees on a cold...
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Dear Dad, Do You Want to Make a Difference?

Dear Dad, Do You Want to Make a Difference?

02/28/2026
Portraits of Faith He gets one verse. One. No backstory. No origin chapter. No...
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