As British ships bombard Fort McHenry through the night, a lawyer aboard a truce ship watches for a flag he cannot see, and writes what becomes The Star-Spangled Banner. | A Gospel Briefing production.

Exiled and marched to death by an empire he tried to call back to righteousness, John Chrysostom's final words were not a complaint but a doxology. | A Gospel Briefing production.

A vastly outnumbered Scottish force led by William Wallace and Andrew Moray annihilates an English royal army at Stirling Bridge, a lopsided victory that echoes Proverbs 21:31. | A Gospel Briefing production.

When Puritan colonists nearly perished from foul water and fever, a reclusive hermit priest showed them a spring — and Governor Winthrop's shipboard sermon about a city on a hill took on new weight. | A Gospel Briefing production.

Puritan settlers found Boston, staking a whole colony on the belief that God was watching how they lived together. A look at covenant, providence, and the cost of building a testimony. | A Gospel Briefing production.

The celebrated theologian and organist who traded Europe's concert halls for a jungle hospital in Gabon, and died there still treating patients at ninety. A Gospel Briefing production.

When the Little Rock Nine's plans fell apart, fifteen-year-old Elizabeth Eckford walked toward Central High School alone -- and into one of the defining images of the Civil Rights era. A Gospel Briefing production.

A bakery fire on Pudding Lane erases medieval London in four days — and out of the ashes rises a stronger, stone-built city under Christopher Wren. | A Gospel Briefing production.

On his way home from mediating a father-son reconciliation, Pilgrim's Progress author John Bunyan was caught in a storm that led to his death. What his final act of mercy reveals about a sovereign God. | A Gospel Briefing production.

John Bunyan wrote The Pilgrim's Progress in a Bedford jail cell -- then died riding through a rainstorm to reconcile a father and son. A Gospel Briefing production.