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."
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Episodes
16 episodes
Samuel Rutherford: The Higher Summons
They summoned him for treason. He told them he had already been summoned by a higher Judge.Samuel Rutherford was a country pastor banished to a cold northern city, where exile turned him into one of the most beloved letter-writers in chu...
Horatio Spafford: It Is Well With My Soul | The Hymn Born Over His Daughters' Graves | Psalm 34:18
A man stands at the railing of a ship in the middle of the Atlantic late at night. A few weeks ago he had four daughters — Annie, Margaret, Bessie, and little Tanetta who was only two. Now the captain has come to find him with the words no fath...
Jeremiah Lanphier: The Man Who Prayed Alone | The Fulton Street Revival That Swept a Nation | Zechariah 4:10
Noon on a Wednesday in 1857, in a third-floor room above an old church in lower Manhattan, a forty-eight-year-old man sat down by himself to pray. For thirty minutes, nobody came. Then footsteps on the stairs. Then five more men. Within a year,...
Amy Carmichael: The Prayer God Answered with No (Isaiah 55:8)
The true story of missionary Amy Carmichael and the childhood prayer God answered with 'no' (Isaiah 55:8).A little girl in Ireland once begged God for blue eyes and woke up disappointed. She had no idea He was preparing her for a rescue ...
Dietrich Bonhoeffer: When Faith Costs Everything (The Pastor Who Defied Hitler)
The true story of Dietrich Bonhoeffer, the pastor who left safety in America to resist Hitler in Nazi Germany (Hebrews 11:6).In 1939, Dietrich Bonhoeffer was safe in New York City. His American friends had arranged a teaching post at Uni...
William Seymour: The Man Nobody Wanted & the Revival That Changed the World (Acts 10:34)
The true story of William Seymour, the overlooked preacher behind the Azusa Street Revival (Acts 10:34).In 1906, William J. Seymour arrived in Los Angeles with one good eye, a borrowed pulpit, and a message that got him locked...
Gladys Aylward: The Maid Who Walked 100 Children Out of China (Isaiah 6:8)
The true story of missionary Gladys Aylward, the rejected housemaid who led nearly 100 children to safety across China (Isaiah 6:8).In 1932, a London parlor maid named Gladys Aylward was rejected by the China Inland Mission as too...
Blaise Pascal: The Night of Fire — The Encounter He Sewed Into His Coat
The true story of Blaise Pascal's 'Night of Fire' — the encounter with God he sewed into his coat.On the night of November 23rd, 1654, the most brilliant scientific mind in Europe had a two-hour encounter with the living God that broke h...
Peter Marshall: From Factory Floor to Chaplain of the U.S. Senate (2 Samuel 7:8)
The true story of Peter Marshall, the Scottish immigrant who became Chaplain of the U.S. Senate (2 Samuel 7:8).How does a working-class kid from Coatbridge, Scotland — with no college degree, no connections, and no money — end up praying...
John Paton: Surrounded, Afraid, and Guarded by Angels (Psalm 91)
The true story of missionary John Paton and the night angels guarded his mission house (Psalm 91).What do you do when the cannibals are coming and you've already buried your wife and son?In 1858, John Paton sailed to the New Hebri...
Shamgar & John Wooden's Father: Two Heroes Who Beat the Odds (Judges 3:31)
The true story of Shamgar and John Wooden's father — two overlooked heroes who beat the odds (Judges 3:31).The Bible mentions Shamgar exactly one time. One verse. Judges 3:31. He grabbed a farmer's ox goad — basically a long sharpened st...
Why Stories Matter: A Pastor's Welcome to Lift Up Your Day
Welcome to Lift Up Your Day — a 5-minute daily Christian devotional podcast where Pastor Rodney Coe shares true stories of faith to lift your heart.Welcome to Lift Up Your Day with Pastor Rodney Coe — a 5-minute Christian devotional podc...
Corrie ten Boom: The Day She Forgave Her Prison Guard (Romans 8:1)
The true story of Corrie ten Boom, the Holocaust survivor who came face to face with her Ravensbrück prison guard and chose forgiveness (Romans 8:1).It was 1947, and Corrie ten Boom had just finished speaking in a Munich church basement ...
Alvin York: The Pacifist Who Became WWI's Most Decorated Soldier (Hebrews 4:12)
The true story of Sergeant Alvin York, the conscientious objector who became the most decorated American soldier of World War I (Hebrews 4:12).On his World War I draft card, Alvin York wrote one line that would change his life forever: "...
The Hebrides Revival: Why Revival Starts With Prayer, Not a Program (2 Chronicles 7:14)
The true story of the Hebrides Revival — how desperate prayer, not a program, sparked a Spirit-led awakening on the Isle of Lewis (2 Chronicles 7:14)."Oh, that you would rend the heavens and come down." That's Isaiah 64:1. And that's the...
George Washington Carver: The Scientist Who Walked With God at 4 A.M. (Proverbs 3:5-6)
The true story of George Washington Carver — born into slavery, he met God in the woods at 4 a.m. and changed American agriculture (Proverbs 3:5-6).In 1864, in Diamond, Missouri, a band of slave raiders kidnapped a young mother and her i...