August 19. Li De Xian. Pastor Li has been arrested so many times he's lost count. Arrested and treated brutally for illegal preaching. He keeps a go-bag ready, not for jet-setting, but for the next arrest. It contains a blanket and a change of clothes. Don't settle for safe; do what you're called to do. […]

August 18. Denzel Washington. Denzel was the son of a preacher and a hairstylist. Denzel says, "I was what they call 'throwing rocks at the penitentiary,' but I never hit it." He adds, "I never got caught…. But I also knew right from wrong, so I never wanted to go too far." Proactively, his mother […]

August 17. John Mott. John came to faith in Christ when he was an undergrad at Cornell. He was among the first hundred students to sign up in Dwight Moody's summer conference in Massachusetts. The pledge was, "It is my purpose, if God permit, to become a foreign missionary." John was still a student when […]

August 16. Michael Lyles. Michael is a psychiatrist in Georgia who loves God and demonstrates it by loving the people God has created. Today's story takes place when Michael was 14 years old and attending a new school in a new city. Here's what happened. Sometimes you get betrayed; what do you do with the […]

August 15. William Gladstone. Gladstone worked for equal opportunity for people, including self-rule in Ireland. He strove toward those goals for the four terms he was England's prime minister, and he kept fighting for the causes he believed in, even when he wasn't in office. Gladstone's belief in God colored all his adult choices, and […]

August 14. Maximillian Kolbe. Kolbe was born in the part of Poland that belonged to the Russian Empire. When he was 16, he and his brother stowed away in a hay cart so they could attend seminary on the Austrian side of the country. From there, he went on to Rome to get doctorates in […]

August 13. William "Bill" Melone. Bill was a high-school teacher in a tough neighborhood in Philadelphia. He is now Pastor for Mercy and Outreach at a church plant in NE Philadelphia. Today's story shows a time Bill needed and received mercy and how it changed him. Wherever you find yourself, be all in. "Hey, Andre, […]

August 12. Doug Smail. Doug—a left winger—played in the National Hockey League for 13 seasons from 1980 through 1993. Doug is a man who loves God. He also loved hockey, but he loved his family more. On this date in 1990, at a Christian Training Camp, Doug dedicated his son Cody to God. Today's story […]

August 11. Brian Welch. Brian—also known by his stage name Head—was a guitarist and a founding member of the nu metal band Korn, who pioneered nu metal music, a form of alternative metal music—music for the disenfranchised. In 2005, Brian left the band to focus on life as a father and to pursue his own […]

August 10. Lawrence of Rome. In Rome, during the first half of the third century, the government was sold out to Roman so-called deities, and Christians were not to be tolerated. Often they were given the chance to "convert" and prove it by offering sacrifices to the so-called gods. And those who refused were arrested, […]