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A Morning Training Run That Became a Calling
EdinburghΒ· 1922
Before the famous Olympic refusal, Eric Liddell was on an ordinary morning training run through Edinburgh when he felt a sudden clarity β that his ability...
God Spoke to a Watchmaker While She Wound a Spring
HaarlemΒ· 1920s
Long before becoming a famous war hero, Corrie ten Boom was winding watch springs in her father's shop when she felt God press something onto her heart β...
The University Sprinter Who Would Not Run on Sunday
EdinburghΒ· 1920s
Eric Liddell, a science student at the University of Edinburgh, refused to run the 100 metres at the 1924 Olympics because the heats fell on a Sunday.
The Philosophy Student Who Refused to Back Down
CambridgeΒ· 1950s
Alvin Plantinga entered Harvard as a Christian freshman and encountered fierce intellectual hostility toward faith.
The Scientist Who Could Not Outrun the Question
Chapel HillΒ· Late 1970s
Francis Collins, an atheist PhD student who became a medical student at the University of North Carolina, found faith after patients challenged his...
The Teacher Who Chose the Darkest Classroom
Hong KongΒ· 1966
Jackie Pullinger, a music graduate from London, sailed to Hong Kong in 1966 and began teaching in the Kowloon Walled City.
The Medical Student Who Followed the Evidence
NorfolkΒ· Early 2000s
Nabeel Qureshi, a devout Muslim pre-med student at Old Dominion University, spent three years investigating Christianity through a campus friendship with...
Katie Davis Majors: A Teenager Who Adopted 13 Children in Uganda
JinjaΒ· 2007-present
Katie Davis Majors went to Uganda at 18 for a gap year and never returned. She adopted 13 children and founded Amazima Ministries, serving hundreds more.
Three Days Inside a Fish: The Prophet Who Ran and Got Swallowed
Mediterranean SeaΒ· c. 780 BC
The prophet Jonah ran from God's assignment to Nineveh, was thrown overboard in a storm, and was swallowed by a great fish for three days -- where the...
When a Donkey Saw What a Prophet Couldn't
Moab (modern Jordan)Β· c. 1400 BC
The biblical account of Balaam's donkey, who saw the angel of the Lord and saved her master's life three times while he beat her for disobedience -- a...
Bill Bright Fasted for Forty Days and Launched a Movement of Two Million
OrlandoΒ· 1994
In 1994, Campus Crusade founder Bill Bright completed a forty-day fast at age seventy-three and felt God call two million Americans to fast for spiritual...
Her Husband Was Killed by a Tribe β She Moved In With Her Baby
EcuadorΒ· 1958
After her husband Jim was speared to death by the Huaorani tribe in 1956, Elisabeth Elliot stayed in Ecuador and moved INTO the tribal village with her...