Lift Up Your Day
Lift Up Your Day with Pastor Rodney Coe — a 5-minute Christian devotional podcast for the heart that needs lifting. Every Take 5 episode is a true story from history and Scripture about ordinary people God used to do extraordinary things. Pastor Rodney Coe — author of 5 books, devotional writer, and pastor — tells the stories warm, well-paced, and pointed at the part of your day that needs the most lifting. You'll meet missionaries saved by angels (John Paton), a watchmaker's daughter who forgave a Nazi guard (Corrie ten Boom), a Tennessee farm boy who took a hill in the Argonne (Alvin York), a Senate chaplain who wasn't ready (Peter Marshall), a man who walked with God at 4 a.m. (George Washington Carver), and more. Each episode ends the same way: "And that, friend, is how God lifts up your day." Free 7-day devotional When Worry Won't Let Go at rodneycoe.com/worry-devotional. Books and blog at rodneycoe.com. Subscribe for weekly Take 5 stories. Keep Looking Up.
Episodes
The year is 1787. A small, sickly young man stands up in the British House of Commons and proposes something that will make him one of the most hated men in England.
William Wilberforce, barely five feet tall, often too sick to stand, is going to fight the slave trade. Powerful men will threaten him. One captain will swear to throw him overboard if he ever sets foot near his ship. And Wilberforce will fight them anyw...
July 2, 1505. A young law student named Martin Luther is walking back to university through the German countryside when the sky turns black.
A bolt of lightning slams into the ground right next to him. Terrified, certain he is about to die and face a holy God he cannot satisfy, he cries out. Saint Anne, help me! I will become a monk!
He lives. And he keeps the vow.
Luther became a monk, and he was a good one. He fasted...
Just before midnight in 1709, the Wesley family's rectory in Epworth caught fire.
Samuel Wesley counted his children in the freezing yard and came up one short. Five-year-old John was still upstairs, trapped above the flames. There was no time for a ladder. One neighbor climbed onto the shoulders of another, reached the window, and pulled the boy out just as the roof caved in.
His mother Susanna gathered her son and r...
The greatest preacher of the 1800s wept in the dark, and he never hid it.
On a single night in 1856, a false cry of fire sent a packed London crowd into a deadly stampede while 22-year-old Charles Spurgeon stood helpless on the platform. Seven people died. The memory haunted him for the rest of his life.
The Prince of Preachers, the man who drew six thousand listeners every Sunday, spent his years battling a depressio...
Benjamin Franklin came to the meeting with his mind already made up. He would not put one coin in the collection. Then the preacher began to speak. By the end, even the gold was gone, and the most famous skeptic in America walked home with empty pockets and a head full of wonder.
The preacher was George Whitefield, and in the year 1740 he was turning the American colonies upside down. Only twenty-five years old. Eng...
A brilliant young Englishwoman sat at her desk one day, packing nearly fifty pieces of jewelry into a box to give away, and called it the happiest packing of her life.
This is the story of Frances Ridley Havergal (1836-1879), who wrote the hymn Take My Life and Let It Be and then proved she meant every word, shipping a fortune in jewelry to the mission field with pure joy.
Born in England in 1836, the youngest child...
A robbed man picks up his pen, and what he writes will still be preaching three hundred years later.
On a dark road outside Chester, thieves took every coin in Matthew Henry's pockets and disappeared into the woods. He walked home shaken, cold, and empty-handed. Most men would have filled their diary that night with anger.
Matthew Henry filled his with thanks. Thankful he had never been robbed before. Thankful they ...
A preacher with a weak voice. A bored New England town. Twenty minutes of monotone reading. And heaven came down anyway.
On a warm Wednesday in July of 1741, Jonathan Edwards stepped into the pulpit at Enfield, Connecticut. He never looked up from his page. He read his sermon, Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God, in a flat monotone. Twenty minutes later, grown men were gripping the pews to keep from sliding to the ...
They told her there was no place for a Black missionary to Africa. She called it the greatest disappointment of her life.
Mary McLeod Bethune was born in 1875 on a South Carolina cotton field, the fifteenth of seventeen children of former slaves. She trained for years to become a missionary. When the door slammed, she opened a school in Daytona Beach with a dollar and fifty cents, charred wood for pencils, and ink sh...
A Sunday school teacher named Edward Kimball stood on the sidewalk outside a Boston shoe store, working up the nerve to go in. He nearly turned and walked away. Then he pushed the door open and went looking for a clerk named Dwight Moody.
That awkward conversation in a stockroom led D.L. Moody to Christ. He became the greatest evangelist of his century. The ripples never stopped, Moody's revivals reached J. Wilbur Ch...
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