Lift Up Your Day

By Pastor Rodney Coe

Lift Up Your Day with Pastor Rodney Coe — a 5-minute Christian devotional podcast for the heart that needs lifting.

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June 29, 2026 Christmas Evans: The Mountain Where He Got His Fire Back
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A preacher rode alone through the mountains of Wales, and his heart was cold. His name was Christmas Evans. Born on Christmas Day, 1766, into deep poverty. Orphaned at nine. At seventeen he still could not read a single word. After he met Christ, he taught himself his letters and began to preach. One night his old friends beat him in the dark and he lost an eye for the rest of his life. Then his fire grew dim. So on a lonely road between Dolgellau and Machynlleth, Evans climbed off his pony and up the mountainside, and prayed until the coldness broke. He came down a changed man, and revival followed his preaching across Wales.
A five-minute reminder that when your fire has burned low, the road home runs straight uphill into honest prayer. "Draw near to God and He will draw near to you."
Scripture echo: Revelation 2:4, James 4:8
Key figure: Christmas Evans (1766-1838), Welsh Baptist preacher whose covenant prayer on a Welsh mountain road sparked revival across Anglesey and Wales.
Read or listen on the blog: https://rodneycoe.com/christmas-evans-mountain-fire-back/
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June 26, 2026 Civil War Revival of 1863: The Unfinished Baptism
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In the winter of 1863, soldiers waded into half-frozen creeks to be baptized, too full of new faith to wait for spring, and many of them knew they might not live to see it. This is the story of the Great Revival that swept the Civil War camps on both sides, where Bibles were so scarce a single one served a whole regiment, and around 150,000 men came to Christ in the middle of the bloodiest war in American history. A five-minute reminder that revival rarely waits for comfort, and that God is a very present help right in the middle of the trouble.
Scripture echo: Psalm 46:1
Key moment: The Great Revival of 1863, sweeping both Union and Confederate camps during the American Civil War. Approximately 150,000 Confederate soldiers and tens of thousands of Union soldiers came to Christ.
Read or listen on the blog: https://rodneycoe.com/civil-war-revival-1863-unfinished-baptism/
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June 24, 2026 Mary McLeod Bethune: Faith, Education, and Detour
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They told her there was no place for a Black missionary to Africa. She called it the greatest disappointment of her life.
Mary McLeod Bethune was born in 1875 on a South Carolina cotton field, the fifteenth of seventeen children of former slaves. She trained for years to become a missionary. When the door slammed, she opened a school in Daytona Beach with a dollar and fifty cents, charred wood for pencils, and ink she crushed from elderberries. That ragged little school became a college that still trains young men and women today. The woman who was once told she was not wanted ended up advising four U.S. presidents and helping write the charter of the United Nations.
A five-minute reminder that the door God closes is never the end of your story. The detour may be the destination all along.
Scripture echo: Proverbs 3:5-6
Key figure: Mary McLeod Bethune (1875-1955), educator, founder of Bethune-Cookman College, presidential adviser
Read or listen on the blog: https://rodneycoe.com/mary-mcleod-bethune-detour-that-changed-everything/
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June 22, 2026 C.S. Lewis: The Atheist Who Found God
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C.S. Lewis was a brilliant Oxford atheist, certain that Christianity was a myth and determined to keep God at arm's length. This is the story of how the evidence, a midnight conversation with J.R.R. Tolkien, and a quiet ride to the zoo in his brother's motorcycle sidecar brought the most reluctant convert in England to his knees. And it leads to the most personal question Jesus ever asked: "But who do you say that I am?" A five-minute reminder that an honest answer to that question changes everything.
Scripture echo: Matthew 16:15, John 14:6
Key figure: C.S. Lewis (1898-1963), Oxford scholar, author of Mere Christianity and The Chronicles of Narnia
Read or listen on the blog: https://rodneycoe.com/cs-lewis-who-do-you-say-i-am/
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June 19, 2026 Eric Liddell: The Olympic Runner Who Gave Up Gold for God
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The fastest man in Scotland was about to throw away the race of his life. The 1924 Olympics were in Paris, and Eric Liddell was the favorite to win the 100 meters. Then the schedule came out. The heats fell on a Sunday. And Eric Liddell, who believed the Lord's Day belonged to the Lord, quietly announced that he would not run.
The newspapers called him a fool. Some of his own countrymen called him a traitor. He did not budge an inch.
So he entered the 400 meters instead. A longer race. One he had hardly trained for. On the morning of the final, someone pressed a folded note into his hand carrying an old promise: "Those who honor Me I will honor." He won gold. World record. Then he walked away from fame at the height of it to become a missionary in China, where he died in a Japanese internment camp at age forty-three. His last recorded words: "It's complete surrender."
This is a five-minute story about laying aside the race you trained for so you can run the one God set before you.
Scripture echo: Hebrews 12:1-2, Matthew 6:33, 1 Samuel 2:30
Key figure: Eric Henry Liddell (1902-1945), Olympic gold medalist and missionary to China
Read or listen on the blog: https://rodneycoe.com/eric-liddell-runner-who-gave-up-gold/
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June 17, 2026 Lottie Moon: The Missionary Who Starved to Feed China
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She weighed just fifty pounds when they carried her onto the ship.
Lottie Moon, four feet three inches tall and fluent in five languages, had given away all her food and money to starving families during a famine in China. She had spent nearly forty years pouring out her life on the far side of the world, and now her own body could not go on. The younger missionaries put her on a ship bound for home. It was too late.
On Christmas Eve, 1912, in the harbor of Kobe, Japan, Lottie Moon slipped away at seventy-two. She whispered the words of a child's hymn she had loved since girlhood: we are weak, but He is strong.
Here is the part she never knew. For years she had written the mission board, letter after letter, begging for more workers. The letters had planted a seed. The women of her church started a small Christmas offering, and after she died they put her name on it.
That offering, the Lottie Moon Christmas Offering, has now raised more than five billion dollars to carry the gospel around the world. Five billion. Lottie never saw a single dime of it.
A five-minute reminder that the seed you bury in faith is never wasted. It is simply being planted.
Scripture echo: John 12:24
Key figure: Charlotte "Lottie" Moon (1840-1912), Southern Baptist missionary to China, namesake of the Lottie Moon Christmas Offering
Read or listen on the blog: https://rodneycoe.com/lottie-moon-last-christmas/
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June 15, 2026 John Newton: Amazing Grace and the Slave Trader Who Wrote It
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The Atlantic had turned black. Wind tore through the rigging, waves crashed clean over the deck, and a sailor who had spent years mocking the very idea of God was clinging to a rope and certain he would not live to see morning.
His name was John Newton. He was the captain of a slave ship, and by his own confession one of the most brutal men sailing those waters. The vessel was breaking apart beneath his feet. And in that moment, with the cold sea pouring in around him, the hardest man on the ocean opened his mouth and cried out to a God he did not believe in.
Here is the part most people get wrong: Newton did not change overnight. For years after that storm he kept right on in the slave trade. Grace worked on him slowly, the way water works on stone.
Eventually he left the sea. He was ordained a minister in Olney, England. And there, the same man who had once cursed God on a sinking deck sat down and wrote the words the whole world now knows. "Amazing grace, how sweet the sound, that saved a wretch like me." He knew exactly which wretch he had in mind.
But the song is not the reveal. As an old man, frail and going blind, Newton wrote a public confession of everything he had done in the slave trade. Then he poured himself into a young politician named William Wilberforce. Newton told him to stay and fight. In 1807, the year before Newton died, England outlawed the slave trade. The old captain lived just long enough to hear that the chains were coming off.
A five-minute reminder that there is no one too far gone for grace.
Scripture echo: 2 Corinthians 5:17, Psalm 40:2
Key figure: John Newton (1725-1807), English minister, former slave ship captain, author of "Amazing Grace"
Read or listen on the blog: https://rodneycoe.com/john-newton-amazing-grace/
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June 12, 2026 George Müller: The Orphan Father Who Prayed for Every Meal
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He started out as a thief. By sixteen, George Müller had stolen from his own father, run out on hotel bills, and landed in a German jail. By the time he died, he had cared for more than ten thousand orphans and handled over a million pounds, and he never once asked a single human being for a penny of it. Same man. One changed heart in between.
Müller was born in Prussia in 1805. His father wanted him to be a clergyman because pastors earned a steady living, so young George studied for the ministry while living a double life of drinking and gambling. Then a friend took him to a small prayer meeting in a private home. He watched a man kneel down on the floor and talk to God as if God were really listening. He had never seen anything like it. He went home that night a different man.
In Bristol, England, Müller opened orphan houses on Ashley Down. Thousands of children were fed, clothed, schooled, and told about Jesus. But here is the part the world could never explain. Müller made one rule. He would never ask anyone for money. No appeals. No hints. When a need came, he told God and no one else, and then he waited. The money came, sometimes the very hour it was needed. He wrote down tens of thousands of answered prayers in his own hand because he wanted a doubting world to see that God still hears.
He prayed for five lost friends every single day for more than fifty years. The last of them came to Christ after Müller went to heaven. A five-minute reminder that you do not need a bigger personality or a stronger will. You need the same simple faith Müller had.
Scripture echo: Jeremiah 33:3
Key figure: George Müller (1805-1898), Prussian-born evangelist and founder of the Bristol orphan houses
Read or listen on the blog: https://rodneycoe.com/george-mueller-life-of-prayer/
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June 10, 2026 D.L. Moody: The Shoe Clerk Who Sparked a Revival
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A Sunday school teacher named Edward Kimball stood on the sidewalk outside a Boston shoe store, working up the nerve to go in. He nearly turned and walked away. Then he pushed the door open and went looking for a clerk named Dwight Moody.
That awkward conversation in a stockroom led D.L. Moody to Christ. He became the greatest evangelist of his century. The ripples never stopped, Moody's revivals reached J. Wilbur Chapman, Chapman taught a washed-up ballplayer named Billy Sunday to handle the gospel, Sunday's fruit reached a fiery preacher named Mordecai Ham, and in 1934 a teenage farm boy slipped into the back of one of Ham's revivals in Charlotte and gave his heart to the Lord.
His name was Billy Graham.
Edward Kimball never preached to a stadium. He just walked into a shoe store he almost skipped. A five-minute reminder that God prefers to write His biggest stories with the most unlikely cast.
Scripture echo: 1 Corinthians 1:27; Jeremiah 1:5-7
Key figure: D.L. Moody (1837-1899), American evangelist, founder of Moody Bible Institute
Read or listen on the blog: https://rodneycoe.com/dl-moody-shoe-clerk-who-shook-the-world/
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June 08, 2026 Samuel Rutherford: Letters from Prison, Higher Summons
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They summoned him for treason. He told them he had already been summoned by a higher Judge.
Samuel Rutherford was a country pastor banished to a cold northern city, where exile turned him into one of the most beloved letter-writers in church history. This is the story of the book they burned, the pulpit they took, and the deathbed words that have comforted believers for more than three hundred years.
Scripture echoes: Romans 8:31; John 14:2; Psalm 73:25
Key figure: Samuel Rutherford (c. 1600-1661), Scottish pastor and author of the Letters and Lex Rex.
Read or listen on the blog: https://rodneycoe.com/samuel-rutherford-higher-summons/
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