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Brent Higginson โ LSD, Eastern Mysticism, and the Night Everything Changed
Costa Mesaยท 1970s
Born into a home that told him he was good for nothing, Brent Higginson chased meaning through LSD and eastern mysticism. At Calvary Chapel Costa Mesa he met the Holy Spirit, and changed completely.
A Theologian Met God on a Park Bench Reading the Psalms
Berlinยท 1932
Dietrich Bonhoeffer, already an ordained pastor and published theologian, was reading the Psalms on a park bench one afternoon when familiar words...
The UN Secretary-General Who Met God on a Bus
New York Cityยท 1950s
Dag Hammarskjold, Secretary-General of the United Nations, recorded in his private journal that the defining moment of his life happened on an ordinary...
She Met God on a Dirt Road With Nothing
Ulster Countyยท 1826
Isabella Baumfree โ later Sojourner Truth โ escaped slavery with her infant daughter and walked down an ordinary dirt road in upstate New York.
Nicky Cruz: From Generational Violence to Radical Love
Brooklynยท 1958
Nicky Cruz, raised under witchcraft and parental abuse in Puerto Rico, became a violent gang warlord in Brooklyn before Jesus shattered the generational...
The Most Reluctant Convert at Oxford
Oxfordยท 1931
C.S. Lewis, a committed atheist and Oxford don, was gradually drawn to faith through late-night conversations with fellow academics like Tolkien.
The Sikh Who Walked Barefoot Through the Himalayas Because He Couldn't Not Go
Himalayan Passesยท 1905-1929
Sundar Singh, a former Sikh who burned a Bible at fourteen, became a barefoot sadhu who walked tens of thousands of miles through the Himalayan passes for...
The Priest Who Finally Felt What He Had Been Preaching
Aldersgate Streetยท May 1738
John Wesley, an ordained Anglican priest who had spent over a decade in ministry without a personal experience of faith, felt his "heart strangely warmed"...
The Lawyer Who Walked Into a Forest and Came Out Someone Else
Adamsยท October 1821
Charles Finney, a sceptical lawyer in Adams, New York, knelt in a forest clearing on October 10, 1821, and experienced a transformative encounter that led...
The Dog That Wouldn't Board the Titanic
Southampton to North Atlanticยท April 1912
Documented accounts of dogs exhibiting unusual distress before the Titanic sailed, alongside the story of pastor John Harper, who used his final moments...
Sundar Singh: Meeting Jesus on a Himalayan Road
Himalayasยท 1900s-1920s
Sundar Singh, a Sikh teenager who burned the Bible, encountered Jesus in a vision and spent thirty years walking barefoot through the Himalayas preaching...
How John Hyde Fasted Until a Revival Swept Through India
Sialkotยท 1904
Missionary John Hyde fasted for thirty days before the 1904 Sialkot Convention in India, sparking a revival that brought hundreds to faith and transformed...
