November 26. Robby Dilmore. Robby is a car guy. He’s been a car guy since 1971, when he started out at the dealership—washing cars. Over about 27 years, he worked his way up from service to parts to sales to owning a dealership. And from there—the God of the universe called Robby to do more.  In 2006, he started The Christian Car Guy Radio […]

November 25. David Brainerd. When Brainerd turned 20, he met Jesus. Brainerd writes: “My soul was so captivated and delighted with the excellence, loveliness, greatness … of God that I had no thought … at first, about my own salvation, and scarce reflected that there was such a creature as myself.”  Brainerd’s love did not grow cold. In his […]

November 24. Paul Carlson. When the Christian Medical and Dental Society sent out an urgent call for doctors to go to the Congo, Carlson went for a six-month assignment. But even when he was back home, the people of the Congo and their huge need for doctors stayed with him.  So, in 1963, Carlson took a 75 percent pay cut, left cushy Redondo Beach, California, and moved his family to […]

November 23. Sujo John. It’s been about two decades since Sujo and his wife Mary left Calcutta and moved to New York City.  In 2008, Sujo started “I Am Second,” a Dallas-based nonprofit experiment. His question was: What would happen if he cast a vision of a life lived for something greater than himself?  To answer that, his group started by telling twenty short-film stories about real people who had […]

November 22. Thomas “Stonewall” Jackson. On this date in 1851, Jackson proclaimed his faith in Jesus publicly. He was 27 years old. By this time, he had graduated from West Point and had demonstrated his bravery in the Mexican-American War. He was promoted to Brevet General and then to Lieutenant General. Today’s story shows a little bit of […]

November 21. Mike Ratliff. Today’s story is about the time back when Mike was 37 years old. He was a loving and conscientious pastor who spent his time and his prayer caring for others. Then this happened.  Anxiety doesn’t mean your faith is weak. It means you have work to do.  Mike was in a deep sleep when he was […]

November 20. Ron Sandison. Early on, Ron was diagnosed as autistic, but Ron is not disabled; he is differently abled. He never had it easy, but he had parents who loved him and knew enough to teach him to pray.  The day Ron was baptized, his pastor told him: “I feel this verse is for you: Joel 2:25, ‘I […]

November 19. Bill McCartney. When Bill was hired as head coach for the University of Colorado’s Colorado Buffalos, he said, “I promise you we will have a program built on integrity, honesty, and character.”  That’s how Bill ran his whole life. As a coach, he won ninety-three games, three Big Eight championships, and a national championship.   In 1990. Bill founded Promise Keepers— one of […]

November 18. Whaid Guscott Rose. For an abandoned baby who later had to sneak out of the house to hear a sermon, Whaid has done all right.  He has published a number of books about worship, books that church leaders rely on, and he served 18 years as Church of God (Seventh-Day) president and served the US Conference in some capacity for 30 years. He now speaks […]

November 17. Samuel Caldwell. At a time when racial tension threatened to cripple the city, only a brief line in an 1842 newspaper marks Caldwell’s act of wisdom and compassion, but what he did saved a man’s life, established his family, helped secure peace in Boston, and strengthened the abolitionist movement. On this date in 1842, […]