The Gospel Briefing Presents: Bringing Biblical History to Life

On the first American spacewalk, Ed White floated free above the Pacific and didn't want to come home. A story about wonder, the space race, and what the heavens were made to do. | A Gospel Briefing production.

Justin Martyr chased truth through every school of Greek philosophy before finding it in Christ, then died refusing to deny Him before a Roman prefect. A story of how God turns our wanderings into a road to Himself. | A Gospel Briefing production.

When a neglected dam gave way above a Pennsylvania mill town, a wall of water erased thousands of lives in minutes. We trace the disaster, the mercy that followed, and what Psalm 46 says about a God who is a refuge when the earth gives way. | A Gospel Briefing production.

On his thirtieth birthday, Charles II rode into a London drunk on flowers and bonfires — while in Bedford, a tinker named John Bunyan was about to be arrested for preaching. Which throne mattered? | A Gospel Briefing production.

On the night of May 28, 1453, every soul left in Constantinople crowded into Hagia Sophia for the city's final Christian service as Sultan Mehmed II prepared his last assault. The empire would fall by dawn — but the Greek manuscripts carried west would help ignite the Renaissance and the Reformation. | A Gospel Briefing production.

On the night he died in Geneva, John Calvin asked to be buried in an unmarked grave — no stone, no monument, no shrine. The story of a reluctant scholar seized by God, and what his life reveals about the One who establishes our steps. | A Gospel Briefing production.

Outnumbered and facing war elephants, Vardan Mamikonian led the Armenian Christians against Persia rather than abandon their faith. They lost the battle and died on the field — but their refusal to bow ultimately won their people religious freedom. | A Gospel Briefing production.

On May 15, 1984, Francis Schaeffer — the bearded apologist of L'Abri — closed his eyes for the last time and stepped into the presence of the God he had spent his life telling everyone was really there. We trace his unlikely ministry from a Swiss chalet to the conscience of evangelicalism. | A Gospel Briefing production.

On May 14, 1796, a parish physician named Edward Jenner scratched cowpox into the arm of an eight-year-old boy and launched the most successful disease-eradication campaign in human history. We trace the story of the milkmaids, the gardener's son, and the principle hidden in Numbers 21 long before any vaccine existed. | A Gospel Briefing production.

Three small ships push up the muddy James River, and a country parson named Robert Hunt nails an old, rotten sail between two trees to make a church — and unwittingly plants a Bible beachhead that would outlast the colony, the company, and the king who chartered it. A Gospel Briefing production.