The Gospel Briefing Presents: Bringing Biblical History to Life

On May 12, 1780, American forces surrendered Charleston in the worst defeat of the Revolution — and yet within sixteen months, the British surrendered at Yorktown. How God uses apparent disaster to script unexpected deliverance. | A Gospel Briefing production.

On May 11, 330, Emperor Constantine dedicated a brand-new Christian capital on the Bosphorus — a city that would shape church history for over a thousand years. A Gospel Briefing production.

At 2:41 a.m. in a Reims schoolhouse, a German general signed the surrender that ended the deadliest war in human history. The regime that swore the church would die was buried — and the gospel was not. | A Gospel Briefing production.

On May 7, 1824, a stone-deaf Beethoven premiered his Ninth Symphony in Vienna and could not hear the standing ovation behind him until a soloist gently turned him around. A meditation on God's strength made perfect in weakness. | A Gospel Briefing production.

At dawn on May 6, 1527, twenty thousand unpaid mercenaries — many of them Lutheran — breach the walls of Rome, send Pope Clement VII fleeing through a hidden corridor, and shatter the political power of the papacy in a single week. A Gospel Briefing production.

The man who took a crown from a Pope died on a forty-seven-square-mile rock in the Atlantic. What God was doing on Saint Helena was what He had been doing all along. | A Gospel Briefing production.

Two months before the Declaration of Independence, Rhode Island became the first English colony in North America to renounce King George III — and the seed of soul liberty Roger Williams planted in Providence helped make it possible. | A Gospel Briefing production.

At dawn on May 1, 1898, Commodore George Dewey sailed into Manila Bay and ended a 333-year Spanish empire in a single morning. A meditation on Daniel 2:21 and the God who removes kings and sets up kings. | A Gospel Briefing production.

On his deathbed in Nicomedia, the dying emperor Galerius — architect of Rome's bloodiest persecution of Christians — signed the Edict of Toleration, the first official end to Christian persecution in the Roman Empire. The story of how God turns the heart of kings. | A Gospel Briefing production.

A Presbyterian minister, a kidnapping in Chester County, and a small school in Oxford, Pennsylvania that would one day train Thurgood Marshall, Langston Hughes, and Kwame Nkrumah. The story of Lincoln University and the providence of God. | A Gospel Briefing production.