Heroes of the Faith: with J.John and Killy

By J.John

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There is much we can learn from people over the centuries. In this podcast series, we learn about some of J.John’s ‘Heroes of the Faith’, as described by his wife, Killy.

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Heroes of the Faith: with J.John and Killy episodes:

12.31.2022
On Heroes and Heroism
This series on Christian heroes has made me think about how the idea of heroism applies to you and me. I think that when we use the word hero, even in the Christian context, we can blur two kinds of people....
12.24.2022
Heroes of the Faith: Billy Graham
Billy Graham was a man who towered over twentieth-century Christianity and, if I may say so, I had the wonderful privilege of meeting.
12.17.2022
Heroes of the Faith: Jarena Lee
Jarena Lee overcame many struggles and much opposition to become the first black woman preacher in the United States.
12.10.2022
Heroes of the Faith: Phillis Wheatley
Phillis Wheatley, an enslaved black woman who became one of the first published writers in North America, was a Christian who fought the horror of slavery.
12.03.2022
Heroes of the Faith: Tom Rees
Tom Rees was an evangelist who proclaimed the gospel, and here I should declare a personal interest: he was my wife’s great-uncle, the brother of Dick Rees, her grandfather, who was also an evangelist. Thomas Rees was born in 1911...
11.26.2022
Heroes of the Faith: Lillian Trasher
Lillian Trasher spent a lifetime in Egypt, where she created one of the world’s largest orphanages with small resources but enormous faith. Born in Florida in 1887, Lillian came to a living experience of Christ in her teens. She worked...
11.19.2022
Heroes of the Faith: Bede
Although Bede, the great Anglo-Saxon monk, scholar and historian, spent all his life in north-east England, his influence spread across Europe and gained him the title the ‘Venerable Bede’. Bede was born in 673 in what is now Tyne and...
11.12.2022
Heroes of the Faith: Ida Scudder
There is no more outstanding example of a Christian dynasty than the Scudder family, of whom it could be written in 1959 that ‘forty-two members through four generations had given a total of 1,100 years to missionary service in India’....
11.05.2022
Heroes of the Faith: Brother Andrew
When in September 2022 the Dutchman Andy van der Bijl, better known as Brother Andrew, died, many obituaries emphasised his dramatic role in the Fifties and Sixties as ‘God’s Smuggler’. Yet Andrew was a man who did far more than...
10.29.2022
Heroes of the Faith: Darlene Deibler Rose
Through her long life, Darlene Deibler Rose was a witness for Christ to people in the furthest parts of the world. Yet through her unforgettable memoir, Evidence Not Seen, of her brutal imprisonment by the Japanese during the Second World War, she has become...
10.22.2022
Heroes of the Faith: Katharina von Bora
Katharina von Bora, the nun who married the former monk Martin Luther, continues to be an inspiring figure after nearly five hundred years. Katharina was born into a family of nobility in Saxony, near Leipzig in Germany, in 1499. At...
10.15.2022
Heroes of the Faith: Wang Mingdao
One of the leading Christians of twentieth-century China was Wang Mingdao, a man who at enormous cost helped grow the house church movement that has kept biblical Christianity alive there.
10.08.2022
Heroes of the Faith: Brother Lawrence
Few Christians have had as much impact as the 17th-century French monk Brother Lawrence with his little book The Practice of the Presence of God. It’s a book that transformed my own prayer life and has done the same for many...
10.01.2022
Heroes of the Faith: David Unaipon
The arrival of Europeans in Australia from 1788 was catastrophic for the continent’s Aboriginal peoples as they soon found it brought disease, slavery and land seizure. Yet the settlers also carried the gospel and the result was a number of...
09.24.2022
Heroes of the Faith: Rasalama of Madagascar
The history of global Christianity is full of little-known heroes who have been overlooked. One of these is Rasalama, the woman who was Madagascar’s first Christian martyr.
09.17.2022
Heroes of the Faith: William Tyndale
The name Tyndale, borne by many organisations, buildings and initiatives in the Christian world, honours the pioneer Bible translator and martyr William Tyndale.
09.10.2022
Heroes of the Faith: John Hus
The story of John Hus is both one of tragedy and triumph. It is tragedy because had the church of his day listened to him instead of sending him to the stake, then the tragic split of the Reformation might...
09.03.2022
Heroes of the Faith: Betty Greene
Betty Greene, called to be a pilot, lived a life in which, in every way, she flew for the Lord.
08.27.2022
Heroes of the Faith: Leonhard Euler
While most of us acknowledge that mathematics is useful, it’s not a subject we appreciate. How many of us could name a famous mathematician? Here’s one: Leonhard Euler (pronounced oiler), a towering mathematical genius and a committed Christian.
08.20.2022
Heroes of the Faith: Toyohiko Kagawa
Through evangelism, writing and social action, Kagawa won respect for Christianity in Japan.
08.13.2022
Heroes of the Faith: Agnes Smith Lewis & Margaret Dunlop Gibson
Agnes Smith Lewis and Margaret Dunlop Gibson defied every convention of the Victorian era to make remarkable contributions to biblical scholarship.
08.06.2022
Heroes of the Faith: David Brainerd
The 18th-century missionary David Brainerd was a man who had a brief life but an astonishing influence. Brainerd was born in 1718 to a prosperous local administrator in a New England still influenced by the Puritans. Orphaned early and lacking...
07.30.2022
Heroes of the Faith: Francis Asbury
Anyone travelling through the United States will come across schools, colleges and universities that carry the name of Asbury. They bear witness to a remarkable hero of the faith.
07.23.2022
Heroes of the Faith: Watchman Nee
Nee was born in 1903 in Fuzhou, south-east China. His grandfather had been one of the first pastors in China and his mother dedicated him to God before his birth. Despite this, and an education in a school run by...
07.16.2022
Heroes of the Faith: Catherine of Siena
Catherine was born to a cloth dyer in Siena, Italy, in 1347, the twenty-third of twenty-six children, most of whom didn’t survive infancy. It was a tough time and place to be born: the Black Death, which was to kill...
07.09.2022
Heroes of the Faith: Richard Wurmbrand
One Christian hero who I am privileged to have met is Richard Wurmbrand. His story, told in Tortured for Christ, impacted me deeply as a young student.
07.02.2022
Heroes of the Faith: Isaac Watts
Watts’ hymns were of such quality and so rich in spiritual insight that objections to hymn singing in churches faded away for good.
06.25.2022
Heroes of the Faith: Phoebe Palmer
Phoebe Palmer was one the foremost Christian leaders of the 19th century and someone whose influence continues to the present day. She stepped out from her comfortable New York home to do whatever the Lord demanded of her.
06.18.2022
Heroes of the Faith: John Charles Ryle
Two figures dominated the evangelical church of Britain in the late nineteenth century: the nonconformist preacher Charles Spurgeon and the Anglican preacher, writer and bishop, John Charles Ryle.
06.11.2022
Heroes of the Faith: Henry Martyn
Few people have achieved as much for the kingdom of God in as little time as Henry Martyn, missionary and Bible translator, whose life ended when he was only thirty-one.
06.04.2022
Heroes of the Faith: Mahalia Jackson
Running a beauty salon during the week, Mahalia began to sing professionally at weekends. She began to sing in secular theatres and bars, with jazz or blues bands, but she made the decision – sacrificial at the time – that...
05.28.2022
Heroes of the Faith: Evan Roberts
Although well read in the Bible, Roberts had only minimal education and, at the age of eleven, began work in the coal mines. Always something of a contemplative, Roberts lived in a world where God, heaven and spiritual powers were...
05.21.2022
Heroes of the Faith: John Wycliffe
The injustices that Wycliffe attacked are gone but what he stood for, an idealistic, individual and instructed faith, is something that every age should value.
05.14.2022
Heroes of the Faith: Helen Roseveare
Helen was a woman endowed with intelligence, skill and determination but with a tendency to be impatient, domineering and a perfectionist.
05.07.2022
Heroes of the Faith: Eric Liddell
Athlete and missionary Eric Liddell had been largely forgotten until the 1981 film Chariots of Fire reminded the world of him.
04.30.2022
Heroes of the Faith: Thomas Barnardo
One winter’s night he learned that one of his boys had no home to go to and, led by him, was appalled to discover that homelessness among children was far worse than he had imagined. Barnardo now realised his calling...
04.23.2022
Heroes of the Faith: David Wilkerson
Denominations, churches and even individual Christians always risk stagnation; a situation in which everybody is busy doing nothing. At such times, God often sends someone to shake things up. A man who did just that was David Wilkerson, the American...
04.16.2022
Heroes of the Faith: Benedict of Nursia
Benedict of Nursia was born in AD 480 just at the time when the Roman Empire was ending and the Middle Ages beginning. That Christianity and learning were kept alive during the troubled millennium between Rome’s fall and the Renaissance was something...
04.09.2022
Heroes of the Faith: John Wesley
John Wesley was one of the most influential Christian preachers in history and a man who had an enormous and lasting impact on his nation and the world.
04.02.2022
Heroes of the Faith: Lottie Moon
Charlotte Moon was born in 1840 to a plantation-owning family in Virginia, in the pre-Civil War southern culture depicted in Gone with the Wind. After a youthful rebellion against Christianity, she was converted in 1859. A woman well under five-foot in height, Lottie spent the Civil War helping her widowed mother manage the estate and teaching in schools....
03.19.2022
Heroes of the Faith: Charles Finney
One of the most powerful American preachers was Charles Finney, who had an influential ministry in the first half of the nineteenth century.
03.12.2022
Heroes of the Faith: Richard Baxter
The seventeenth century in England was a time of constant and often violent controversies over religion and politics. Despite finding himself cruelly vulnerable at the centre of many of these, Richard Baxter managed, as both pastor and writer, to proclaim...
03.05.2022
Heroes of the Faith: Adoniram Judson
The story of Adoniram Judson, the first overseas missionary from the United States of America and the man who founded the church in Burma, is one of the most challenging in Christian history.
02.26.2022
Heroes of the Faith: Mitsuo Fuchida
It’s always inspiring to hear of encounters with Christ that utterly transform a life. The case of Mitsuo Fuchida is a spectacular example of just such a conversion.
02.19.2022
Heroes of the Faith: Helen Cadbury
Helen Cadbury was born in 1877 into the Quaker family who ran the famous Birmingham chocolate firm. Helen’s father Richard was committed not just to the social work that was a Quaker distinctive but also to enthusiastically sharing the gospel.
02.12.2022
Heroes of the Faith: Samuel Zwemer
Samuel Zwemer was a remarkable missionary, traveller and teacher, and a man who became known as the ‘Apostle to Islam’.
02.05.2022
Heroes of the Faith: Olaudah Equiano
In the eighteenth century the transatlantic slave trade had reached a level where, every year, tens of thousands of African people were transported under appalling conditions to the New World. Many Christians fought against slavery and the names of William...
01.29.2022
Heroes of the Faith: Bishop Polycarp
Polycarp – whose name means ‘much fruit’ – was born in Smyrna, today’s port of Izmir in Turkey. He was born in AD 69 and grew up at a time when some of those who had seen and heard Jesus were still...
01.22.2022
Heroes of the Faith: Anne Bradstreet
Heroism isn’t about achievements; in my view it’s about what you attempt to achieve and how you attempt it. And that makes seventeenth-century Puritan poet Anne Bradstreet a hero.
01.15.2022
Heroes of the Faith: Andrew Murray
Andrew Murray was not only one of the most gifted church leaders in nineteenth-century South Africa but also a writer who continues to inspire Christians across the world today.

What's Heroes of the Faith: with J.John and Killy about?

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Heroes of the Faith: with J.John and Killy episodes:

On Heroes and Heroism

Heroes of the Faith: Billy Graham

Heroes of the Faith: Jarena Lee

Heroes of the Faith: Phillis Wheatley

Heroes of the Faith: Tom Rees

Heroes of the Faith: Lillian Trasher

Heroes of the Faith: Bede

Heroes of the Faith: Ida Scudder

Heroes of the Faith: Brother Andrew

Heroes of the Faith: Darlene Deibler Rose

Heroes of the Faith: Katharina von Bora

Heroes of the Faith: Wang Mingdao

Heroes of the Faith: Brother Lawrence

Heroes of the Faith: David Unaipon

Heroes of the Faith: Rasalama of Madagascar

Heroes of the Faith: William Tyndale

Heroes of the Faith: John Hus

Heroes of the Faith: Betty Greene

Heroes of the Faith: Leonhard Euler

Heroes of the Faith: Toyohiko Kagawa

Heroes of the Faith: Agnes Smith Lewis & Margaret Dunlop Gibson

Heroes of the Faith: David Brainerd

Heroes of the Faith: Francis Asbury

Heroes of the Faith: Watchman Nee

Heroes of the Faith: Catherine of Siena

Heroes of the Faith: Richard Wurmbrand

Heroes of the Faith: Isaac Watts

Heroes of the Faith: Phoebe Palmer

Heroes of the Faith: John Charles Ryle

Heroes of the Faith: Henry Martyn

Heroes of the Faith: Mahalia Jackson

Heroes of the Faith: Evan Roberts

Heroes of the Faith: John Wycliffe

Heroes of the Faith: Helen Roseveare

Heroes of the Faith: Eric Liddell

Heroes of the Faith: Thomas Barnardo

Heroes of the Faith: David Wilkerson

Heroes of the Faith: Benedict of Nursia

Heroes of the Faith: John Wesley

Heroes of the Faith: Lottie Moon

Heroes of the Faith: Charles Finney

Heroes of the Faith: Richard Baxter

Heroes of the Faith: Adoniram Judson

Heroes of the Faith: Mitsuo Fuchida

Heroes of the Faith: Helen Cadbury

Heroes of the Faith: Samuel Zwemer

Heroes of the Faith: Olaudah Equiano

Heroes of the Faith: Bishop Polycarp

Heroes of the Faith: Anne Bradstreet

Heroes of the Faith: Andrew Murray

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