The Stones We Stand On

Konnor and Chelsy continue with the story of John Bunyan, covering the death of his wife, and his calling to the ministry.  Sources: James Anthony Froude, Bunyan (Project Gutenberg, n.d.), https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/16680. Edmund Venables, The Life of John Bunyan (Project Gutenberg, n.d.), https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/13121. James Hamilton, Life of Bunyan (Project Gutenberg, n.d.), https...

Konnor tells Chelsy the story of John Bunyan, author of The Pilgrim’s Progress . In this episode they cover his early life and conversion (and also talk a lot about the Plantagenets, Tudors, Stuarts and the English Civil War).  Sources: James Anthony Froude, Bunyan (Project Gutenberg, n.d.), https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/16680. Edmund Venables, The Life of John Bunyan (Project Gutenberg, n.d.),...

This week on the Podcast Chelsy wraps up the life of Amy Carmichael. She explores the legacy Amy left behind in India, the ways she thrived as a single women and the ways she faltered in her ministry. Tune in to hear more about Amy Carmichael's legacy. Sources: Elisabeth Elliot, A Chance to Die: The Life and Legacy of Amy Carmichael (Grand Rapids, MI: Revell, 2005)

Konnor & Chelsy cover Amy's time as a missionary in Japan. Sources: Elisabeth Elliot, A Chance to Die: The Life and Legacy of Amy Carmichael (Grand Rapids, MI: Revell, 2005)

Konnor and Chelsy start the story of Amy Carmichael. In this episode they cover her early life, calling, and ministry in Ireland. Sources: Elisabeth Elliot, A Chance to Die: The Life and Legacy of Amy Carmichael (Grand Rapids, MI: Revell, 2005)

Konnor & Chelsy answer questions from listeners.

Let's revisit Ann Judson, Adoniram Judson's first wife and see how the "mother of modern missions" impacted Chelsy as Konnor listens to the conversion story and Ann's own calling to missions before meeting her husband. References: To the Golden Shore by Courtney Anderson 10 Women Who Changed the World by Daniel L. Akin

Tune in for a long episode where Chelsy and Konnor cover Martyn Lloyd-Jones’ wartime ministry in London, and his fight for doctrinal standards as the ecumenical movement swept the world.  Sources: Murray, Iain H. The Life of Martyn Lloyd-Jones, 1899–1981 . Edinburgh: Banner of Truth Trust, 2013.

Chelsy and Konnor continue with the story of Martyn Lloyd-Jones, covering his time pastoring in Aberavon, and all the stories of transformation in Sandfields. Sources: Murray, Iain H. The Life of Martyn Lloyd-Jones, 1899–1981 . Edinburgh: Banner of Truth Trust, 2013.

Come join Chelsy as she listens to Konnor tell the story of the great preacher, Martin Lloyd Jones' early life, conversion and the start of his ministry. Sources: Murray, Iain H. The Life of Martyn Lloyd-Jones, 1899–1981 . Edinburgh: Banner of Truth Trust, 2013.

Come listen to the fourth and final part of Adoniram Judson's life and the legacy he leaves behind.

Join Chelsy and Konnor on part three of four of Judson's missionary life. In this episode Chelsy details the ministry of the Judsons as they plant and see God move on Rangoon, Burma. Chelsy used To the Golden Shore by Courtney Anderson as her primary resource. Anytime she reads a quote it is from this book!

Come listen to Chelsy as she tells the second part of Adoniram Judson's story with Konnor! Chelsy's main resource is To the Golden Shore by Courtney Anderson.

Konnor and Chelsy are back for season 2 of The Stones We Stand On. The season is kicked off with part 1 of 3 of Adoniram Judson.

Konnor and Chelsy talk about how reading books written decades and centuries ago can be helpful to us in our growth and development as Christians, and then Konnor reads some excerpts from his favorite books by Christians in the past. Sources:  D. Martyn Lloyd-Jones, Studies in the Sermon on the Mount (Grand Rapids, MI: Eerdmans, 1959). John Owen, Communion with God (Edinburgh: Banner of Truth, 199...

Konnor brings on a special guest, Kadin Coddington, to talk about his own life and the ways he has been shaped and seen others shaped by Christian biography.

Konnor and Chelsy close their time covering Elisabeth Elliot, covering the death of her second husband, her third marriage, and the time in which she wrote many of the books that kept he as a household name among evangelicals.  Sources: Ellen Vaughn, Becoming Elisabeth Elliot (Nashville: B&H Publishing, 2020). Ellen Vaughn, Being Elisabeth Elliot (Nashville: B&H Publishing, 2023). Lucy S....

In their third episode on Elisabeth Elliot, Konnor and Chelsy finally arrive where most people begin her story–the aftermath of the death of Jim Elliot. They also cover her move back to America, her complicated relationship with the Christian culture in the 1960s, and the beginning stages of her relationship with her second husband, Addison Leitch.   Sources: Ellen Vaughn, Becoming Elisabeth Ellio...

Konnor and Chelsy pick up the story of Elisabeth Elliot with the best known part of her life: her time in Ecuador among unreached peoples first as a single woman, then as the wife and ministry partner of Jim Elliot. Sources: Ellen Vaughn, Becoming Elisabeth Elliot (Nashville: B&H Publishing, 2020). Ellen Vaughn, Being Elisabeth Elliot (Nashville: B&H Publishing, 2023). Lucy S. R. Austen, E...

Konnor and Chelsy cover their best known subject yet, Elisabeth Elliot, author of Through Gates of Splendor, Suffering is Never for Nothing, and In the Shadow of the Almighty . In this episode they explore her early life and the complicated figure of Jim Elliot. Sources: Ellen Vaughn, Becoming Elisabeth Elliot (Nashville: B&H Publishing, 2020). Ellen Vaughn, Being Elisabeth Elliot (Nashville:...

Chelsy and Konnor finish the story of Brother Andrew, talking about his ministry behind the Iron Curtain. Sources: Brother Andrew. God’s Smuggler. 3rd ed. Grand Rapids, MI: Baker Books, 1998.

Chelsy and Konnor go back to the Netherlands in the mid twentieth century to walk through the early life of Brother Andrew, the first of our subjects to have a bit of a dark and moody “coming of age”. Sources: Brother Andrew. God Smuggler . 3rd ed. Grand Rapids, MI: Baker Books, 1998.

Konnor and Chelsy finish up the life of Athanasius, talking about another exile, a whole lot of Roman emperors and the big picture impacts of the life of the 4th century church father. Sources: F.A. Forbes, Saint Athanasius: The Father of Orthodoxy (London: R. & T. Washbourne, 1919), Project Gutenberg, accessed 12/2/24. https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/27707 .  John Piper, 21 Servants of Sover...

Konnor walks us through the life of Athanasius, church father and  champion of the Nicene Creed. Sources: F.A. Forbes, Saint Athanasius: The Father of Orthodoxy (London: R. & T. Washbourne, 1919), Project Gutenberg, accessed 12/2/24. https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/27707 .  John Piper, 21 Servants of Sovereign Joy: Faithful, Flawed, and Fruitful (Wheaton, IL: Crossway, 2018).

Chelsy wraps up the story of Corrie Ten Boom. Sources: Corrie Ten Boom, Tramp for the Lord (San Diego: CLC Publications, 1974). Corrie Ten Boom, The Hiding Place , co-authored with John and Elizabeth Sherrill (Grand Rapids: Chosen Books, 1971).