In 1939, Dietrich Bonhoeffer stood on the deck of a ship returning from America to Germany, knowing full well that he was sailing back into the jaws of a rising tyranny. Friends in the United States had pleaded with him to stay. Remaining in safety would have been logical, even strategic. Yet Bonhoeffer felt a deeper call within him, a conviction that discipleship to Jesus was not a matter of convenience but of costly obedience….

George Müller is remembered not merely as a man who prayed, but as a man who built his entire life on prayer. In the 1800s, Müller oversaw large orphanages in Bristol, England feeding, clothing, educating, and sheltering thousands of children. Yet he famously refused to ask anyone for financial support. Instead, he resolved that God alone would be his provider, and prayer would be his daily means of dependence…

In 1956, Elisabeth Elliot received the kind of news that shatters a human life. Her husband, Jim Elliot, along with four other missionaries, had been speared to death while attempting to bring the gospel to the Huaorani people of Ecuador. Elisabeth was left a widow at twenty-nine, with a ten-month-old daughter and a future suddenly cloaked in grief.

Augustine was a man who knew what it meant to live with a divided and disordered heart. Before his conversion, he chased every passion he believed would quiet the ache inside him, pleasure, intellect, status, relationships, and philosophical systems that promised enlightenment but delivered only deeper confusion. His life was crowded with noise, desire, and inner turmoil. Yet none of it brought rest…