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On May 5, 1945, Japanese machine gun fire swept across the Maeda Escarpment on Okinawa — a jagged thirty-five-foot cliff face the Americans had nicknamed...
In 1881, B.B. Warfield arrived at Princeton Seminary carrying a conviction that would define his life's work: every syllable of Scripture is God-breathed, wholly without...
On the night of January 7, 1610, Galileo Galilei aimed his improved telescope toward Jupiter from his study in Padua, Italy. What he saw startled...
A few years ago, I visited a small town nestled in the Appalachian Mountains. There, I met an elderly woman named Clara. With a warm smile that seemed to light up the dim room, she recounted her life during the...
There was a quiet, unassuming man in our church named Mr. Thompson. For years, he sat in the same pew, his hands weathered from decades of hard labor, quietly listening to the sermons, absorbing the truth of the Scriptures. Many...
The Georgia Dome roared with 32,000 voices on July 23, 1996, as eighteen-year-old Kerri Strug stood at the end of the vault runway in Atlanta....
As the sun dips below the horizon, casting a golden hue across the sky, a certain stillness envelops the evening. It’s in this quiet moment, much like the words of Isaiah 40:31, that we find our spirit renewed: "But those...
On the morning of October 31, 2003, thirteen-year-old Bethany Hamilton lay on her surfboard at Tunnels Beach on Kauai's North Shore, her left arm dangling...
When Joshua stood at the edge of the Jordan, God did not hand him a detailed map. "Be strong and courageous," the Divine whispered —...
In the spring of 1940, as Japanese forces closed in on the city of Yangcheng in Shanxi Province, a small British missionary named Gladys Aylward...
In 1995, astronomer Robert Williams made a decision that many of his colleagues thought was foolish — maybe even reckless. As director of the Space...
A few years ago, I met a woman named Clara in my community. Clara was a single mother of three, juggling multiple jobs just to put food on the table. Despite her struggles, she radiated a quiet strength, a determination...
On the morning of October 6, 1536, guards led William Tyndale from the damp stone cells of Vilvoorde Castle near Brussels to a wooden stake...
On March 9, 1892, a white mob dragged Thomas Moss from the Shelby County jail in Memphis, Tennessee, and murdered him alongside his business partners...
On March 4, 1993, Jim Valvano could barely walk to the podium at Madison Square Garden. The former NC State basketball coach, diagnosed with metastatic...
On December 1, 1955, seamstress Rosa Parks boarded a Montgomery, Alabama city bus after a long day at the Montgomery Fair department store. She sat...
On April 19, 1967, twenty-year-old Kathrine Switzer pinned bib number 261 to her sweatshirt and lined up at the start of the Boston Marathon. She...
A few years ago, a dear friend of mine, Sarah, faced what seemed like an insurmountable challenge. She had been a vibrant presence in our church community, always eager to serve and share her faith. But when her husband lost...
On March 7, 1965, twenty-five-year-old John Lewis stood at the foot of the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, Alabama. As chairman of the Student Nonviolent...
On a moonless night in the autumn of 1850, Harriet Tubman crept back across the Maryland border into Dorchester County — the very land she...
In 2018, a small congregation in Nashville voted to become a fully affirming church. The pastor knew what it would cost — denominational funding, longtime...
God has not given us a spirit of fear, but of power, love, and a sound mind. When the Apostle Paul penned these words to Timothy, he was not just imparting wisdom; he was igniting a flame of courage in...
In June of 1752, on the outskirts of Philadelphia, a forty-six-year-old printer named Benjamin Franklin walked into a gathering thunderstorm carrying a silk kite, a...
As we settle into this moment of prayer and reflection, let’s take a deep breath and allow ourselves the space to feel God's presence in our midst. Psalm 23 invites us into a serene landscape, where the Lord is our...