The Gospel Briefing Presents: Bringing Biblical History to Life

Vladimir the Great built a pagan pantheon, then destroyed it with his own hands after his conversion to Christianity reshaped Kievan Rus forever. | A Gospel Briefing production.

A Paris mob storms the Bastille and topples an age of kings -- and the guillotine soon proves what happens when a revolution answers to no throne above it. | A Gospel Briefing production.

The Northwest Ordinance quietly banned slavery across a vast frontier and set new states on equal footing with the original thirteen. What does an overlooked vote in an empty room reveal about how God actually works in history? | A Gospel Briefing production.

On this date in 1536, Erasmus of Rotterdam died in Basel, leaving behind the first printed Greek New Testament that put Scripture's original words into the hands of Luther and Tyndale. A story of how God works His sovereign purposes through a cautious scholar's diligence rather than his courage. | A Gospel Briefing production.

In a locked room in Seoul, missionary Horace Underwood performed the first recorded Protestant baptism on Korean soil, defying a law that made conversion a capital crime. That hidden act became the seed of one of the greatest gospel advances in modern history. | A Gospel Briefing production.

A frail, reluctant lawyer became one of the most influential theologians in church history, reshaping the faith of nations from a single city. A story of how God works through weakness rather than strength. | A Gospel Briefing production.

On July 9, 1755, a young George Washington rode through the massacre at the Monongahela with two horses shot from under him and four bullets through his coat, and walked away without a scratch. He saw the hand of Providence, and history would prove why it mattered. | A Gospel Briefing production.

On July 8, 1741, a nearsighted Jonathan Edwards read 'Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God' in a quiet, level voice and shook Enfield, Connecticut to its foundations. Behind the most terrifying sermon in American history was a God whose sovereignty and mercy were never enemies. | A Gospel Briefing production.

On July 7, 1873, a five-foot-tall Virginia woman was appointed a missionary to China and gave the next forty years of her life to it. What looked like paperwork was providence. | A Gospel Briefing production.

A century before Luther, a Bohemian priest was burned at the stake for preaching that Scripture, not the church councils, held the final word. His enemies thought they had ended a heresy; they had lit a fuse. | A Gospel Briefing production.