The Gospel Briefing Presents: Bringing Biblical History to Life

As the Ottomans closed in on Constantinople, a desperate emperor gambled everything to reunite East and West at the Council of Florence — and the Decree of Union declared the Great Schism healed. Why the treaty collapsed, and why the true church cannot be. | A Gospel Briefing production.

On the fiftieth anniversary of the Declaration, John Adams and Thomas Jefferson died within hours of each other, and a watching nation saw the hand of Providence. A reminder that our times are held in a hand not our own. | A Gospel Briefing production.

Twelve thousand men walk into the guns at Gettysburg as Lee gambles everything on one charge across an open field. What God was doing when the tide of the Confederacy reached its farthest point and began to recede. | A Gospel Briefing production.

A single bolt of lightning near Stotternheim knocked a young law student into the mud, and out of his terrified vow came the man who would spark the Reformation. A story of how God redirects a life through a storm. | A Gospel Briefing production.

A royal proclamation declared it unlawful, but sixty-nine divines gathered at Westminster Abbey anyway and began a decade of work that would shape English-speaking Christianity for centuries. What God builds, no king can forbid. | A Gospel Briefing production.

At the height of his power, King Henry II of France was killed by a freak jousting splinter, plunging the nation into the Wars of Religion. A meditation on God's sovereignty over the rise and fall of kings. | A Gospel Briefing production.

Stolen as a boy and chained aboard a slave ship, Samuel Ajayi Crowther was freed by the Royal Navy and rose to be consecrated the first African bishop of the Anglican Communion at Canterbury Cathedral. A story of providence turning evil into a Bible in the Yoruba tongue. | A Gospel Briefing production.

A driver's wrong turn in Sarajevo on June 28, 1914 put Archduke Franz Ferdinand in an assassin's path and set the world ablaze; five years later to the very day, the Treaty of Versailles ended it. A meditation on God's sovereignty over the rise and fall of empires. | A Gospel Briefing production.

A celebrated young Latin poet in Paris falls deathly ill and walks away from fame and fortune to join John Calvin in Geneva. His Greek New Testament would help shape the Geneva Bible and the King James Version. | A Gospel Briefing production.

Outnumbered three to one and many of his men shoeless, Robert the Bruce trapped the largest army England had ever fielded in the marshes of Bannockburn. A story of providence, pride, and the God to whom victory truly belongs. | A Gospel Briefing production.