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The Missionary Who Slept While Cobras Guarded His Door
Tanna· 1860s
Missionary John G. Paton on the island of Tanna survived multiple assassination attempts in the 1860s, protected by what attackers described as shining...
The Guide Dog Who Led His Blind Owner Down 78 Floors on 9/11
New York City· September 11, 2001
Michael Hingson, a blind man working on the 78th floor of the World Trade Center, was led down 1,463 steps to safety by his guide dog Roselle on September...
The Night the Lions Didn't Eat
Babylon (modern Iraq)· c. 539 BC
Daniel, an elderly statesman in his eighties, was thrown into a den of execution lions for refusing to stop praying.
The Dog That Wouldn't Board the Titanic
Southampton to North Atlantic· 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...
When a Donkey Saw What a Prophet Couldn't
Moab (modern Jordan)· 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...
Ernest Shackleton: The Fourth Man on the Ice
South Georgia Island· 1916
Sir Ernest Shackleton and his companions, crossing the unmapped glaciers of South Georgia after their ship was crushed in Antarctic ice, all reported the...
Mary Slessor: Barefoot in the Jungle, Saving Lives
Calabar· 1876-1915
Mary Slessor left the slums of Dundee for the jungles of Calabar, Nigeria, where she spent nearly forty years walking barefoot through the rainforest,...
Jim Elliot: The Jungle That Became an Altar
Ecuador
Jim Elliot sensed his calling in the mountains of Oregon and found his deepest communion with God in the jungles of Ecuador, where he and four companions...
Jentezen Franklin Led His Church Through a Corporate Fast and Everything Changed
Gainesville· 2001
In 2001, megachurch pastor Jentezen Franklin launched an annual twenty-one-day corporate fast at Free Chapel.
Franklin Hall Fasted and Ignited the Healing Revival of 1947
San Diego· 1946-1947
Pastor Franklin Hall organized corporate fasting gatherings in San Diego in 1946 and published a book on fasting that influenced William Branham, Oral...
How Corporate Fasting Built the Korean Church into the Largest in the World
Seoul· 1953-2000
South Korean Christians built a culture of corporate fasting and prayer mountains from the 1950s onward.
Bill Bright Fasted for Forty Days and Launched a Movement of Two Million
Orlando· 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...