365 Christian Men

By 365 Christian Men

What's 365 Christian Men about?

365 Christian Men is a project built on some basic truths about God and His character. God cares deeply about each man, and He has a specific purpose for every man’s life. In fact, God wants to tell His stories through the lives of His men.

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365 Christian Men episodes:

07.02.2024
William Booth, England, Evangelist
July 2. William Booth. Booth was a minister but saw that a lot of suffering people would never come into a church. And in some places, if they did come, they wouldn’t be welcome. So Booth decided to take his preaching to the people. When...
07.01.2024
Jeremiah Lanphier, US, Businessman
July 1. Jeremiah Lanphier. Jeremiah became a Christian—and he felt deep concern for his fellow New Yorkers. So when a struggling church offered him a job visiting the congregation, he took the job. On this date in 1857, Jeremiah signed on as an inner-city missionary. “What if …?” will either cripple you or...
06.30.2024
David Green, US, Entrepreneur
June 30. David Green. Green, with $600 in his pocket and a craft idea, founded the arts-and-crafts store Hobby Lobby. So far, his idea has grown into 900 stores and several major ministries. Still, the principles Green bases his decisions on are not always...
06.29.2024
Richard Allen, US, Minister
June 29. Richard Allen. Allen endured huge loss as a child. But even as a new believer, he stood strong in the face of gross injustice and became one of America’s most active and influential black leaders. Obstacles can cripple or cause growth. It’s your choice. ...
06.28.2024
Mike McNeill, US, Fathers in the Field
June 28. Mike McNeill. Mike grew up with a dad who took him fly-fishing. But Mike knew that today in America, 50 percent of boys grow up in fatherless homes. Mike got involved in a group called Fathers in the Field, which pairs fatherless boys...
06.27.2024
Ken Jacobs, US, Soldier
June 27. Ken Jacobs. Ken served his country, faced unspeakable horror, and set his own needs aside for the good of the country. On this date in 2019, Ken told what happened on D-Day—when he had a job to do. “You are expendable.” Survive that...
06.26.2024
Francis Scott Key, US, Lawyer
June 26. Francis Scott Key. Key was a serious believer in Jesus and an amateur poet. And he was against the War of 1812. Still his strong sense of personal duty drove him to join the Georgetown Light Field Artillery. So when...
06.25.2024
Phil Trujillo, US, Stockbroker
June 25. Phil Trujillo. Phil was stockbroker, who faced some hard things. Have you ever been accused of a crime? Have you ever been tried and acquitted? Have you ever been tried and convicted and sent to prison? Have you ever had to...
06.24.2024
Francis Xavier, Spain, Priest
June 24. Francis Xavier. Francis was born in the family castle in what is now Spain. When he finished his basic education, he earned a master’s degree in philosophy and taught it for four years at the University of Paris. Then he studied...
06.23.2024
Manny Pacquiao, Philippine Islands, Boxer
June 23. Manny Pacquiao. Manny had a dream, and he wasn’t afraid of the work it would require. When he was little, Manny lived in a shack in a dense Philippines jungle, where his father climbed seventy trees a day and gathered coconuts to get the...
06.22.2024
Chris Quilala, US, Worship Leader
June 22. Chris Quilala. Chris was an on-fire worship leader. When things were good, he worshiped God. When things went wrong, he had to learn what to do. When pain paralyzes you, hang tight to the truth you know. It can hold you up. Chris...
06.21.2024
Andy Stanley, US, Pastor
June 21. Andy Stanley. Andy will tell you he’s an introvert. He says, “Crowds kill me.” At a party, he wants to find one person and sit and talk to him. But Andy is the senior pastor of North Point Ministries, which includes North Point Community Church, Buckhead Church, Browns Bridge...
06.20.2024
John Frith, England, Priest
June 20. John Frith. Frith was a brilliant scholar and a man who loved God. And he was willing to die rather than endorse a church rule he knew to be untrue. All he had to do was agree that the church authorities were right...
06.19.2024
Stuart W. Epperson, US, Media Mogul
June 19. Stuart Epperson. Stu grew up on a tobacco farm. When he was about sixteen, he and a buddy were hoeing corn on a mountainside in Virginia when they saw smoke rising and ran to check it out. Turned out to be one of Stu’s relatives...
06.18.2024
Harland Sanders, US, Entrepreneur
June 18. Harland Sanders. Harland started his business career in a questionable neighborhood known as Hell’s Half-Acre. He owned a Shell gas station, and he wheeled out an old dining table to feed homemade ham and steak dinners to truck drivers. He was hard-working, hard-driving, and hotheaded,...
06.17.2024
John Eliot, England, Missionary
June 17. John Eliot. John dreamed of taking the gospel to nearby native Americans. On this date in 1670, John established a church at Maktapog and preached to them—a little haltingly maybe—in their own language. A fundamental Puritan tenet held that believers ought to be able to read and...
06.16.2024
Glenn Cunningham, US, Olympian
June 16. Glenn Cunningham. Glenn had the courage and the drive of a lion. On this date in 1934, Glenn set the World Record for the Outdoor Mile. Four years later, he set the World Record for the Indoor Mile. Wait until you hear how he got started. ...
06.15.2024
Kimo, Ecuador, Hunter/Gatherer
June 15. Kimo. Kimo lived in an Ecuadorian jungle, and his tribe’s name was Waodani, but because of their stone-age mentality and violent ways, neighboring tribes called them the Auca, which means “naked savages.” As a boy, Kimo was was taught what all the Waodani were taught: that “he must spear and live or be speared and die.” ...
06.14.2024
Phil Robertson, US, Inventor
June 14. Phil Robertson. Phil grew up in a log cabin with no electricity or phone or toilet or bathtub, and he had four brothers and two sisters. And he grew up to be a reality TV star. Phil says...
06.13.2024
Dallas Willard, US, Philosopher
June 13. Dallas Willard. Dallas served for 45 years as Professor of Philosophy at the University of Southern California. He was also a Baptist pastor and wrote world-rocking books about what it means to be a Christian and what spiritual...
06.12.2024
Steve Saint, US, Entrepreneur
June 12. Steve Saint. Steve was born to missionaries in Ecuador—missionaries who wanted to reach a tribe whose basic teaching was, “[You] must spear and live or be speared and die.” And when Steve was five, natives speared his father, jungle-pilot Nate Saint, to death. After a time, the violent...
06.11.2024
Thomas Hooker, US, Pastor
June 11. Thomas Hooker. Hooker lived long before the United States had a flag with thirteen stars. He was a pastor willing to pick a fight he believed in. And he believed the people had the God-given right to vote. So he took his people and founded the Colony of Connecticut. Now...
06.10.2024
Lewis Tappan, US, Abolitionist
June 10. Lewis Tappan. Tappan knew what he believed and in whom he believed, and he wasn’t afraid to take a stand. Take one of hundreds of stands he made—in 1863, he held a Christian service to celebrate Emancipation Day...
06.09.2024
Geoffrey Studdert Kennedy, England, Priest
June 9. Geoffrey Studdert Kennedy. Geoffrey volunteered as a chaplain to the British Army when World War I broke out. On this date in 1917, he went into battle to support the soldiers, and he was later awarded the Military...
06.08.2024
Adoniram Judson, US, Missionary
June 8. Adoniram Judson. Judson was on a mission from God. Before he showed up in Burma, a Burmese Bible didn’t exist, and there wasn’t a single known Christ-follower. By 1837, Judson had completed the Burmese Bible, and there were...
06.07.2024
Edwin Louis Cole, US, Preacher
The CMN ministry has trained more than a million leaders in 138 nations, and those leaders are teaching others. CMN also provides the Majoring in Men curriculum, which has been used by more than 8 million men. All this work...
06.06.2024
George Matheson, Scotland, Pastor
June 6. George Matheson. Matheson became blind when he was twenty, but within five years, he had earned a bachelor of divinity degree. His sisters learned Latin, Greek, and Hebrew so they would be able to help him study, and...
06.05.2024
Winfred Boniface, England, Bishop
June 5. Winfred Boniface. Boniface was a pastor in charge of a parish and other pastors. That’s why he was called a bishop. About 250 years before Boniface, a group of ferocious pagans conquered the western part of the Roman...
06.04.2024
Hans Egede, Norway, Missionary
June 4. Hans Egede. Egede was a pastor in Norway. Seven hundred years after Eric the Red colonized Greenland, Egede stood staring west. He knew Eric the Red’s colony had survived into the 1400s, but no word of survivors had...
06.03.2024
Thomas Becket, England, Archbishop
June 3. Thomas Becket. Thomas became the Archbishop of Canterbury—the unofficial head of all the Anglican bishops in England. He was also chancellor to King Henry II and the keeper of the great seal, which was used to authenticate royal...
06.02.2024
Bill Wilson, US, Child Evangelist
June 2. Bill Wilson. Bill founded Metro World Child, the largest ministry to children in the United States. For more than fifty years, Bill Wilson has rescued hurting children, loved them, introduced them to Christ, and helped them stay in...
06.01.2024
Desmond Doss, US, War Hero
June 1. Desmond Doss. Doss was a United States Army corporal who served as a combat medic in World War II. In 1945, in Okinawa, where at least seventy-five fellow soldiers were wounded, Doss stayed—the only medic in a fire-swept...
05.31.2024
RA Torrey, US, Pastor
May 31. RA Torrey. Torrey’s parents were Christians, but early on, he was not interested in the Christian life. He entered Yale in 1871, determined to become a lawyer. But God had other plans, and—after a dramatic conversion in 1875—he...
05.30.2024
Todd White, Canada, Speaker
May 30. Todd White. Todd is a former drug addict. And he is a former non-Christian. Everything changed for Todd the day he had a close encounter with the living God. Ten years later, he launched Lifestyle Christianity, a ministry...
05.29.2024
Rees Howells, Wales, Missionary
May 29. Rees Howells. Ever since he was twelve, Rees had worked in a coal mine. But in 1906, God called him out of wage-earning and into a ministry of praying for people. For more than forty years, Rees prayed...
05.28.2024
1148 Brendan Eich, US, Mozilla Founder
May 28. Brendan Eich. Eich is a computer programmer and technologist, whose 10-day creation, JavaScript, is a widely-used computer language. Eich also launched the Mozilla project, then the Mozilla Foundation, and eventually the Mozilla Corporation. Mozilla is an internet company...
05.27.2024
1147 Louis Zamperini, US, War Hero
May 27. Louis Zamperini. Family and friends had little hope for young Louis. He was a thief and a bully—until he joined his high school’s track team. Soon, he became one of southern California’s best high school athletes. Louis competed...
05.26.2024
1146 Henry J Heinz, US, Entrepreneur
May 26. Henry J. Heinz. When Henry was very young, he helped his mother make and sell pickles. He sold homemade grated horseradish in clear glass jars so his customers could see that he was not cheating them by adding...
05.25.2024
Xu Yonghai (徐永海), China, Physician
May 25. Xu Yonghai. Dr. Xu is a Chinese evangelical and psychiatrist who shares the gospel with everyone he meets. He is a social activist in a place where activism can be hazardous to one’s health. He is an “unlicensed”...
05.24.2024
Søren Kierkegaard, Danish Philosopher
May 24. Søren Kierkegaard. The problem began with Søren’s father. Once when Dad was a shepherd boy hard at work in the harsh weather, he cursed God, and even when he was grown, he was convinced that—because of that curse—all...
05.23.2024
Samuel Cathy, US, Businessman
May 23. Samuel Cathy. Samuel founded Chick Fil A— one of the top-earning restaurant chains in America. It pulled in “more than $9 billion in revenue in 2017, marking 50 consecutive years of sales growth.” And of those proceeds, in...
05.22.2024
John Wycliffe, England, Theologian
May 22. John Wycliffe. Wycliffe was a Protestant long before there were Protestants. The Protestant Reformation is a 16th century phenomenon, but Wycliffe lived in the 14th century. Two-hundred years before Luther nailed his 95 Theses to the castle door,...
05.21.2024
William Farel, Switzerland, Reformer
May 21. William Farel. Farel was a man of intense courage, boldness, and fearlessness, and he eventually became a significant figure in the Protestant Reformation of the 16th century. He started out as a pro-Reform Catholic preacher, but the Catholic...
05.20.2024
Ignatius of Loyola, Spain, Priest
May 20. Ignatius of Loyola. Ignatius’s early life followed a predictable pattern for boys born in wealthy, noble families. He started as a page and then a knight—both soldier and diplomat. On this date in 1521, while he was serving...
05.19.2024
Colonel Jeffrey Williams, US, Astronaut
May 19. Colonel Jeffrey Williams. In 1993, Jeffrey graduated first in the class at US Naval Test Pilot School, Class 103. Three years later, he was selected to be an astronaut. On this date in 2000, the STS-101 Mission began,...
05.18.2024
Thomas Chalmers, Scottish Minister
May 18. Thomas Chalmers. In the very early 1800s, Chalmers was a prolific writer on a variety of topics: economics, theology, social work, and astronomy, to name just a few. He obtained his divinity degree at the age of 19,...
05.17.2024
Darren Billings, US, Advocate for the Homeless
May 17. Darren Billings. Darren is the senior pastor of Oasis Ministries, a group dedicated to “loving and lifting the hurting of our world.” Oasis, which began as a small group in 2011, now serves people in three cities and...
05.16.2024
1136 Paul Holcroft, US, Antique Art Dealer
May 16. Paul Holcroft. Paul is not a man to take the easy road. He quit a good job in the business world to study theology full time. Besides that, Paul and his wife Colleen are foster parents and have...
05.15.2024
Paul White, US, Pastor
May 15. Paul White. Paul is an internationally recognized author of Christian nonfiction. He has pastored and taught in several churches and conferences for almost thirty years. He hosts the Deeper Daily Podcast and talks listeners through the Scriptures. Seeing believers...
05.14.2024
Dr. Francis Collins, US, Physician
May 14. Francis Collins. Collins is a physician and geneticist who spearheaded the Human Genome Project, which studied DNA and completed finished sequence of the human DNA instruction book. Collins also discovered the genes associated with a number of diseases....

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365 Christian Men episodes:

William Booth, England, Evangelist

Jeremiah Lanphier, US, Businessman

David Green, US, Entrepreneur

Richard Allen, US, Minister

Mike McNeill, US, Fathers in the Field

Ken Jacobs, US, Soldier

Francis Scott Key, US, Lawyer

Phil Trujillo, US, Stockbroker

Francis Xavier, Spain, Priest

Manny Pacquiao, Philippine Islands, Boxer

Chris Quilala, US, Worship Leader

Andy Stanley, US, Pastor

John Frith, England, Priest

Stuart W. Epperson, US, Media Mogul

Harland Sanders, US, Entrepreneur

John Eliot, England, Missionary

Glenn Cunningham, US, Olympian

Kimo, Ecuador, Hunter/Gatherer

Phil Robertson, US, Inventor

Dallas Willard, US, Philosopher

Steve Saint, US, Entrepreneur

Thomas Hooker, US, Pastor

Lewis Tappan, US, Abolitionist

Geoffrey Studdert Kennedy, England, Priest

Adoniram Judson, US, Missionary

Edwin Louis Cole, US, Preacher

George Matheson, Scotland, Pastor

Winfred Boniface, England, Bishop

Hans Egede, Norway, Missionary

Thomas Becket, England, Archbishop

Bill Wilson, US, Child Evangelist

Desmond Doss, US, War Hero

RA Torrey, US, Pastor

Todd White, Canada, Speaker

Rees Howells, Wales, Missionary

1148 Brendan Eich, US, Mozilla Founder

1147 Louis Zamperini, US, War Hero

1146 Henry J Heinz, US, Entrepreneur

Xu Yonghai (徐永海), China, Physician

Søren Kierkegaard, Danish Philosopher

Samuel Cathy, US, Businessman

John Wycliffe, England, Theologian

William Farel, Switzerland, Reformer

Ignatius of Loyola, Spain, Priest

Colonel Jeffrey Williams, US, Astronaut

Thomas Chalmers, Scottish Minister

Darren Billings, US, Advocate for the Homeless

1136 Paul Holcroft, US, Antique Art Dealer

Paul White, US, Pastor

Dr. Francis Collins, US, Physician

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