The Gospel Briefing Presents: Bringing Biblical History to Life

On her thirteenth birthday, Anne Frank received a small checkered diary she named Kitty. The most powerful war machine on earth tried to silence her voice forever, yet God made it echo through history. | A Gospel Briefing production.

A quiet friary wedding between a teenage Henry VIII and Catherine of Aragon set in motion the English Reformation and a Bible in the hands of plowboys. A story of how God weaves even human sin into the advance of His Word. | A Gospel Briefing production.

A desperate phone call from a hotel lobby led Bill Wilson to a drunken Akron surgeon — and on June 10, 1935, Doctor Bob took his last drink, the day Alcoholics Anonymous marks as its founding. How God used two broken men, a praying woman, and ancient Christian practices of confession and surrender to build a movement that pulled millions back from the grave. | A Gospel Briefing production.

An Irish prince's stolen book of Psalms sparked a war that left three thousand dead — and drove him into the exile that brought the gospel to Scotland. On the anniversary of Columba of Iona's death, the story of how God bent a man's worst failure into the evangelization of a nation. | A Gospel Briefing production.

On Whitsunday 1549, Thomas Cranmer's Book of Common Prayer became mandatory in every English church — and parts of England rose in rebellion over it. The story of how God used flawed kings and a patient archbishop to give a whole people worship in their own tongue. | A Gospel Briefing production.

On a June morning in 793, Viking longships fell on the undefended monastery of Lindisfarne and opened the Viking Age. We trace the raid, Alcuin's anguished response, and how the God who seemed absent on Holy Island was already drawing the raiders' own descendants to faith. | A Gospel Briefing production.

After more than a year as captives in the Philippine jungle, missionaries Martin and Gracia Burnham faced a rescue raid that would cost Martin his life and reveal a deeper kind of providence. A story of faith, suffering, and a love nothing can separate. | A Gospel Briefing production.

On a June night in 1844, twelve exhausted London shop clerks gathered above a draper's shop with an open Bible and founded the YMCA. From that candlelit room a movement spread to tens of millions worldwide, a portrait of how God magnifies the day of small beginnings. | A Gospel Briefing production.

An old English missionary takes an axe to the sacred Oak of Thor, and the gods of Germany fall silent — until the day raiders find him at Dokkum and he refuses to let his companions fight. The story of Boniface, Apostle to the Germans. | A Gospel Briefing production.

With the entire British Army trapped on the beaches of Dunkirk, a praying nation, an inexplicable German halt, and an eerily calm sea combined to rescue 338,000 men. A look at what the miracle of Dunkirk reveals about the God who decides the fate of armies. | A Gospel Briefing production.