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February 7. Tony Dungy. On this date in 2007, Tony became the first Black head coach to win the Super Bowl: the Indianapolis Colts versus the Chicago Bears in Super Bowl XLI. 

The same year, Tony released his memoir: Quiet Strength: The Principles, Practices, and Priorities of a Winning Life, and it reached number one on the hardcover nonfiction section of the New York Times Best Seller list. Today’s story gives us a look at some of Tony’s priority-setting. 

Learning to put God first starts with a decision but takes a lifetime. 

When Tony first started playing in the NFL with the Pittsburgh Steelers, he was young and ready to win, but he had a problem keeping his cool. 

When he was in school, he was known for losing his temper, and on the basketball court, he earned technical fouls. 

His dad scolded him about it, but Tony brushed it off. Venting helped him focus. But when he was vying for a permanent place on the Steelers’ roster, things started to change. 

The change started with the Steelers’ Bible study. 

Tony believed in God, and he knew he was a Christian. But until he went to the Bible study, he never realized he wasn’t putting God first in all that he did. 

His teammates were often known for being the biggest and toughest guys around. So when Tony saw them praying together and studying the Word, he realized their faith wasn’t weakness, but true strength. Strength they drew from God. He wanted to be strong in the faith like that too. 

Tony made the team, but during his second season, he got sick with mononucleosis. And he wasn’t allowed to take the field until his white-blood-cell count normalized. 

Three weeks passed, and he still wasn’t up to par, nor was he allowed to practice with the rest of the team during their pre-season camp. Tony felt his old temper and frustrations coming back. His inability to train and condition could leave his spot on the team open for anyone to take. He told Donnie, one of the Christians on the team, about how he felt. “This is just not going according to plan,” Tony said. 

Donnie understood Tony’s frustrations but helped him put the situation in perspective. “You profess to be a Christian, and you tell everybody that God has first place in your life. Now, when your career looks like it’s teetering, we’re getting a chance to see what really is in first place for you.” 

Tony agreed. He had been learning about how to put God first more and trust Him. “I’m trying to understand what you guys have. But all of a sudden, I come to a crisis point, and I begin to panic. My thoughts turn to: ‘What am I going to do?’” 

Donnie’s answer was clear. “All the Lord is trying to do is find out what’s in first place in your life, and right now, it looks like football is.” 

What Donnie said made an impact on Tony. Donnie was telling it straight. Tony knew he needed to change more. 

Football was something God allowed him to do, but it didn’t have to define him. His identity needed to be in God. Tony made a decision right then and there to keep God first no matter what happened. Whether he was benched, healed, or cut from the team, God would still be number one. 

Two weeks passed, and Tony got better, just in time for the first pre-season game. He was able to return to practice with his team. The Steelers that year won fourteen games and lost two and later won the Super Bowl against Dallas with a score of 35–31. 

Tony led the team in interceptions and tied in tenth place in the entire NFL. But despite his success as a player and later on as a coach, Tony never forgot the most important achievement of his life: learning to put God first. 

When he was eventually traded and then saw his career on the verge of collapse, he knew from experience that as long as he kept God first, God would handle things. The door shut on his playing football, but an even bigger door opened for him to become one of the most famous coaches of all time. 

“But seek first his kingdom and his righteousness, and all these things will be given to you as well” (Matthew 6:33 NIV). 

What might be holding you back from putting God first in your life? Learning to put God first starts with a decision but takes a lifetime. 

Dungy, Tony, and Nathan Whitaker. Quiet Strength: A Memoir. Carol Stream: Tyndale House Publishers, Inc., 2007. 

“TONY DUNGY, INDIANAPOLIS COLTS AND TAMPA BAY BUCCANEERS.” Accessed September 26, 2020. PRO FOOTBALL HALL OF FAME. https://www.profootballhof.com/players/tony-dungy/. 

Story read by Chuck Stecker 

February 6. Lou Bloss. Lou is a man with wide-ranging experience. He is a US Army veteran and an award-winning journalist, who has published everywhere from minor-league baseball news to Christian devotionals to a how-to-write textbook. Lou owns Lou Bloss Media, which provides marketing, advertising, and publishing for the restaurant industry. 

And Lou is a man with a great sense of humor. He can keep a straight face while he boasts about his bowling average of 132. That sense of humor doesn’t mean life has been all ponies and firecrackers. Here’s his story. 

Real courage calls you to stay the course; answers will come. 

Early morning sun shone weakly through the windows, blanching the pages of the open Bible. The young father sat motionless. Upstairs, his daughters slept, too young to understand the gaping hole left in cancer’s wake. Who was he now? Widower. Single father. One half of a shattered whole. 

He skimmed the page, a story he had read many times. But this time, the words spoke to him with new meaning: 

“And as [Rachel] was having great difficulty in childbirth, the midwife said to her, ‘Don’t despair, for you have another son.’ … So Rachel died.… Over her tomb Jacob set up a pillar, and to this day that pillar marks Rachel’s tomb. Israel moved on again and pitched his tent beyond Migdal Eder” (Genesis 35:17, 19–21 NIV). 

He pulled his Bible closer and saw with an understanding that had seemed impossible, even moments before. 

Lou and Terrie Bloss had looked forward to the birth of their second daughter. With only three years between them, their girls would grow up close—friends, as well as sisters. Lou and Terri had spent the last months of the pregnancy doing typical things: they got the nursery ready, talked with their firstborn about becoming a big sister, and made plans for their future. 

But a rare form of cancer was silently spreading throughout Terrie’s body. Within four months of their daughter’s birth, Terrie was gone. 

“I had these expectations of happily ever after,” Lou said. “Life didn’t work that way.” 

The months following Terrie’s death were the most difficult of Lou’s life. “Everything felt hard. Just getting up felt hard. I knew I had to get my head together—I had two young daughters depending on me—but I had the same question anyone else would: How?” 

Until he had answers, Lou simply stayed the course. He showed up at his job every day, even on the days it felt impossible. He continued to go to church, even when he wanted to stay home. And he maintained the friendships he and Terrie had cultivated together, even though it hurt to do it without her. Most importantly, Lou clung desperately to God and looked for answers in the Bible. 

Daily reminders of God’s love—the kindness of his coworkers, the support of his friends—these comforted him, but the strength he needed to survive came from the quiet time he set aside each day to pray and read his Bible. 

One morning, several months after Terrie’s death, he had a breakthrough. “I was reading the story of Jacob in Genesis 35, and it hit me. Jacob was on his path, doing what God told him to do, and his wife, Rachel, died in childbirth. She named their son Benoni, which means ‘son of my sorrow,’ but Jacob renamed him Benjamin, which means ‘son of my right hand.’ 

“He didn’t want to constantly dwell on the sorrow; he wanted to dwell on the good. Jacob buried Rachel. He grieved her and memorialized her, remembered her, but he also moved on and continued with what God had called him to do. I thought that was significant. I knew I couldn’t constantly dwell on what I had lost. I had to move forward. The more I thought about it, I realized moving on with my life was an act of faith.” 

Lou believes this same process—grieving and then moving on in faith—applies to many of life’s difficulties. “For all of us,” he says, “something drops into our lives unexpected. We get fired, get hurt, lose someone. Things happen. Some people get kicked down the hill and don’t get back up. You have to get back up.” 

Are you facing difficulties right now? Take a moment and write out something you could do today to move forward. Real courage calls you to stay the course; answers will come. 

This story is based on an interview with Lou Bloss, 2019. 

Story read by Joel Carpenter 

February 5. John Calvin. Born into a devout Catholic family, Calvin was sent off to study philosophy and law. By the time he was twenty-four, he embraced Protestantism and worked for changes in the Roman Catholic Church. He wrote The Institutes of the Christian Religion, a foundation of Protestant systematic theology. And he wrote commentaries on every book in the New Testament except Revelation and on most books of the Old Testament. He was thoroughly convinced of the majestic sovereignty of God. 

Some people have said that Calvin was cold, unapproachable, unemotional, and reluctant to speak, but those who knew him well understood that façade shielded a man who felt deeply and was especially anxious for the state of the world and of men’s souls. Calvin himself said, “There is not one blade of grass, there is no color in this world that is not intended to make us rejoice.” 

Our physical weaknesses never have to limit our spiritual strength. 

Calvin’s body was failing him. It had been for a long while now. Even on his best youthful days, Calvin had always leaned toward the frail side. 

Now as an older gentleman closer to the sunset of life rather than the sunrise, just getting out of bed proved difficult. Migraines, lung hemorrhages, gout, and kidney stones had rendered Calvin’s physical condition bleak at best. But his mind was as strong as ever. 

Calvin had been working his way through the entire Bible. He was writing a commentary on nearly every book. When he was no longer able to write, he finished many of these by dictating to his assistants. Ministers throughout the city would come and visit with him with the intent of encouraging a dying leader, but they were often the ones who left inspired. 

When his body provided enough strength to sit up and go out, Calvin went to church in a chair carried by friends and students. But he wasn’t there to sit in the service. He was there to lead. His assistants would place Calvin in his chair behind the pulpit, where he would preach and even conduct baptisms. His faith and determination willed his body into work. 

“But if I say, ‘I will not remember Him or speak anymore in His name,’ then in my heart it becomes like a burning fire shut up in my bones; and I am weary of holding it in, and I cannot endure it” (Jeremiah 20:9 NASB). 

His soon-to-be successor, Theodore Beza said, “It is true that not only ministers, but friends too, urged him not to wear himself out by coming and working like this. But he would make excuses and say that it did him good and that time would hang too heavily on his hands if he stayed indoors all the time.” 

When he was unable to go out to church, he would bring church to himself. Some days, Calvin’s bedroom filled to capacity while he lay in bed and read from the Bible and his notes. 

Even when it was clear that this simple act of reading aloud was deteriorating his condition, no one dared stop him. He was a man on a mission. 

On occasion, friends would voice their worries about the daily regimen’s effect on his health. But his response was always, “What! Would you have the Lord find me idle when He comes?” 

“That is why, for Christ’s sake, I delight in weaknesses, in insults, in hardships, in persecutions, in difficulties. For when I am weak, then I am strong” (2 Corinthians 12:10 NIV). 

How can God use your weakness today to reveal His strength? Our physical weaknesses never have to limit our spiritual strength. 

Gordon, Bruce. Calvin. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2009. 

Beza, Theodore. Life of Calvin. Lindenhurst, NY: Great Christian Books, 2012. 

Maseko, Achim Nkosi. Church Schism & Corruption: Book 3 Reformationists. Lulu, 2008. 

Story read by Daniel Carpenter 

February 2. Wilfrid Barbrooke Grubb. The biographer said that Grubb considered obstacles mere “straws to be brushed aside” and … “his appearance conveyed an impression of physical endurance and great strength of character.” 

As strong as his character was his desire for the good of his South American parish—the notorious Chaco region of Paraguay. There in the wild, Grubb established the first mission at a time the natives were deep into mere straws like ritual mutilation and cannibalism. 

Grubb worked with the Lengua people. His methods were quite individual. Grubb told how he won the respect of the natives, so he could give them the gospel. He said, “On arriving at a village, I insisted, as far as possible, upon all the people ministering to my comfort. I ordered one to prepare my resting-place, another to make a fire, a third to bring me water, and another to pull off my knee boots. When the heat was great or the flies troublesome, I made two sit by me with fans. When on foot, and having to cross a swampy patch, I made one of them carry me across.…” 

When one of the natives shot Grubb in the back with a poisoned arrow, he recovered, having avoided the people’s practice of burying people alive and despite that as he recovered, a “roving goat” would—from time to time—sit on Grubb’s chest. 

Another time, when one of the natives got angry, he strung an arrow on his bow and pressed the tip against Grubb’s chest. The missionary believed that if he showed fear, the people would lose all respect for him, but if he lived and ate and worked with them, he would find a place in their hearts. So, as the tip of the arrow pressed into his chest, he tossed back his head and roared with laughter. It must have worked, since he went on ministering to them for twenty years and past many, many mere straws. Listen to today’s story. 

When evil strikes, a man can hide, or he can expose the evil and drive it out. 

In October 1900, after twelve years of intense effort to help the tribes of Paraguay know who Jesus is, Grubb’s work finally thrived. He had established a missionary station and a school in the village in Eastern Paraguay. (The name of the village was twenty letters long.) 

Work was underway translating the Bible, and the Lengua Christians were enthusiastically helping Grubb. He was overjoyed at this success, especially when three young men were baptized. 

But the next day, the three boys, who had been christened John, Andrew, and Thomas, fell violently ill. John and Thomas recovered quickly, but Andrew only grew worse. 

Within two days, he had a high fever and could barely walk. Grubb and the villagers suspected it was the work of the village witch doctors, but before they could say a word, the witch doctors incited the people against Grubb: “You are killing him. You want to kill all our friends,” they said. 

The witch doctors took ten of their cronies and forced their way into the house where Andrew rested. They intended to take him away to treat him themselves. But the missionaries refused to let Andrew go. 

The crowd threatened violence, but the missionaries stood their ground, and the crowd eventually departed. 

But that night, Andrew died. Believing his spirit would be angry at his death, his family members fled the house. 

The following night, strange things happened. Ghosts appeared to terrify the villagers; roof tiles mysteriously flew off houses; people heard blood-chilling noises. 

Grubb had failed to help Andrew, and now it seemed that the forces of darkness were conspiring against him. 

He could have chosen to flee the village—to cut his losses and take his work elsewhere, but he chose to stay because he loved the Lengua people. He had committed his life to seeing them follow Jesus and turn away from witchcraft. 

Grubb took a deep breath and thought about what was really going on. The next morning, he leaped into action. 

After carefully interviewing the villages, he discovered the culprits. In front of their entire village, Grubb gathered them together and chewed them out. 

First, Grubb showed his Winchester rifle to one of the witch doctors. This witch doctor was the one who had thrown the roof tiles off the houses. Grubb promised that if he heard a roof tile fall off again, he would shoot in that direction. 

No more tiles were thrown. 

After this, Grubb turned to the other witch doctors. He pointed at them and laughed as loud as he could. “Just look at them. Who could possibly be afraid of them?” he said. “Look at their leader; he isn’t far from the grave; his friends will soon be getting it ready!” 

Ashamed, the witch doctors slunk away. 

In the evening, Grubb called the Lengua people together to decide how to punish the witch doctors. The tribe then forced the witch doctors to pay two sheep each as compensation for their evil acts. The witch doctors paid up, and the sheep were then sold, and the proceeds devoted to the village church. 

Grubb didn’t stop there. He knew that the witch doctors would try to assert their control again. And he desperately wanted the people to break free of their dependency on the witch doctors. From that moment on, Grubb took every opportunity to expose their fraud. 

The Lengua Christians enthusiastically supported Grubb, and within a few years, almost the entire village believed in Jesus, including most of the witch doctors themselves. 

“Now if we are children, then we are heirs—heirs of God and co-heirs with Christ, if indeed we share in his sufferings in order that we may also share in his glory. I consider that our present sufferings are not worth comparing with the glory that will be revealed in us” (Romans 8:17–18 NIV). 

Are you prepared to stand against evil in your own life? When evil strikes, a man can hide, or he can expose the evil and drive it out. 

Grubb, Wilfrid B. A Church in the Wildlands. London: Seeley, Services and Co. Limited, 1925. 

Davidson, Norman J. Barbrooke Grubb, Pathfinder. London: Seeley, Services and Co. Limited, 1924. 

Hunt, R. J. The Livingstone of South America: The Life & Adventures of W. Barbrooke Grubb among the wild tribes of the Gran Chaco in Paraguay, Bolivia, Argentina, the Falkland Islands & Tierra del Fuego. London: Seeley Service & Co. Limited, 1932. 

Bedford, C.T. Barbrooke Grubb of Paraguay. London: Seeley, Services and Co. Limited. 1932. 

Story read by Blake Mattocks 

February 1. Josh McDowell. For more than fifty years, Josh has brought instruction and encouragement to youth, families, churches, leaders, and individuals. He’s an everyday-language man, who helps prepare people for the life of faith and the work of the ministry. 

Josh has delivered about 27,200 talks to more than 25,200,000 people in 126 countries. On this date in 2016, Josh published The Beauty of Intolerance. In fact, he has also written or co-authored 151 books. World Magazine named Josh’s book Evidence That Demands a Verdict one of the twentieth century’s top 40 books. But Josh wasn’t always on the top. Here’s his story. 

A broken home isn’t the end of the story when we let God rewrite our futures. 

Josh stood facing the congregation. “Growing up, my father was the town drunk,” he said. “ … I’d go to school, and my friends would make jokes about my dad downtown in the gutter making a fool of himself.” Josh was telling how his father’s alcohol habit had wreaked havoc on his family throughout his entire childhood. 

“We lived on a farm, and I’d go out to the barn, and I’d see my mother whom I loved very much, lying in the manure in the gutter behind the cows, where my father had yanked the air-hose off of the pipelines and just beat my mother … until she was so weak and bloody that she couldn’t stand up.” 

Josh continued, describing the memory of his eight-year-old fists, balled up and pounding on his drunk father as hard as he could, as he shouted, “When I’m strong enough, I’ll kill you!” 

“All I ever wanted as a kid was for my father to quit hurting my mother, and I couldn’t stop it,” Josh said. 

He recalled arriving home one evening as a high school senior, whose graduation was just weeks away. As he stepped into the heaviness of their home, he could hear his mother weeping in her bedroom, and he ran to her bedside. 

She was lying in her bed, her head on a tear-stained pillow. “Son, your father has broken my heart.” Tears of despair rolled down her face. “I have lost the will to live. All I want to do is live until you graduate, and then I just want to die.” 

Sixty-one days later, Josh graduated from high school. And the following Friday his mother passed away. 

“My mother died of a broken heart, and my father broke it, and I hated him for it,” Josh told the congregation. After decades of tragedy, Josh slammed the door of his heart on God and hated his father for the indescribable pain he had caused. 

“Whether God existed or not, I couldn’t care less,” he said. 

But on December 19, 1959, God the Father broke into Josh’s bitter heart when a college friend told him about Jesus and what he was like. “It changed my life,” Josh said. “Within six months to a year, my entire life was transformed. 

Not long thereafter, Josh was in a serious car accident, and he had to stay with his father. The ambulance dropped him off and strapped him to his bed. His father walked into the room. 

“Every muscle in my body tightened,” Josh said. 

As Josh’s dad paced back and forth next to his bed, Josh noticed two things. His dad was sober, and he was crying. Two things Josh had never seen from his father his entire life. He leaned over Josh’s bed, tears of regret falling onto Josh’s face, and said, “Son, how can you love a father such as I?” 

“Dad, six months ago I hated you, I despised you. But I have come to know Jesus Christ as Savior and Lord, and I have learned one thing … that God became man, and his name is Jesus, and he is passionate about a personal relationship with you,” Josh replied. 

That night, at his son’s bedside, the town drunk became a fool for Christ. And over the remaining fourteen months of Josh’s father’s life, he introduced more than a hundred other people to Jesus. As Josh shared these words, the congregation erupted in applause. 

“Praise the LORD, my soul, and forget not all his benefits—who forgives all your sins and heals all your diseases, who redeems your life from the pit and crowns you with love and compassion” (Psalms 103:2–4 NIV). 

Every family has an imperfect story. Is there anything in yours that God wants to heal? A broken home isn’t the end of the story when we let God rewrite our futures. 

McDowell, Josh. “Josh McDowell Testimony Part 1.” Published October 22, 2008. https://​www.youtube.com/​watch?v=d5O5nD0pyPc&t=107s. 

McDowell, Josh. “Josh McDowell’s Story Updated.” Published January 29, 2013. https://​www.youtube.com/​watch?v=WhJ9HkaR8Gg. 

“Why are Christians Leaving the Church – Josh McDowell interview.” Published August 1, 2018. https://​www.youtube.com/​watch?v=l4Em1sdCUyo. 

McDowell, Josh. “Josh McDowell Testimony Part 3.” Published October 22, 2008. https://​www.youtube.com/​watch?v=ZLmLoCiIyJM. 

Story read by Chuck Stecker 

Story written by Shelli Mandeville, https://worthy.life/ 

January 31. John Bradford. Bradford worked hard and rose fast. He started in service to Sir John Harrington and became responsible for handling King Henry VIII’s money and went on to become Deputy Paymaster of Henry VIII’s forces when they besieged a city on the French coast of the English Channel. 

When Bradford became a Christian, he was ordained to be a travelling preacher. He sold all ‘his chains, rings, brooches, and jewels of gold” which he used to wear, so he could give the money to the poor and the ill. When he heard a sermon preached by Hugh Latimer teaching that if you’ve stolen, you must pay back what you’ve taken, he felt terrible about a fraud someone had committed and Bradford had covered up. He would not rest until the man confessed and paid the money back. Unfortunately, the man was Sir John Harrington. Nobody said doing what’s right would be easy. 

Soon Bradford faced a radical political change—Bloody Mary took the throne. But Bradford kept on speaking out about Jesus and injustice. No matter the injustice, Bradford continued until this date in 1555, when he was condemned to death for illegal preaching. Here’s his story. 

Some men have a way with words, but God’s Word has a way with men. 

Bradford had always been smart and talented and hard-working. And he was young when he had already worked his way up to the position of clerk to the King’s Treasurer. 

But God made Himself and His goodness known to Bradford. 

And everything changed. Bradford gave up his career and went to learn more about Jesus—who He is, what He does, and what’s required of men. Soon Bradford was prepared and began to tell people that a life with God was available to them now. 

Even the hardest of hearts softened from what Bradford said. 

Next he became King Edward’s chaplain and travelled throughout England and preached that the grace of God and faith in Jesus were the keys to authentic Christian living. 

He was a man at war against lies that held people captive and kept them from knowing the true God and how much He loved them. 

“The sacrifice God desires is a humble spirit—O God, a humble and repentant heart you will not reject” (Psalm 51:17 NET). 

This was a dream job—to present truth and fight evil everywhere he found it—but it didn’t last long. 

Fifteen-year-old King Edward fell ill, died, and was succeeded by his older half-sister Mary Tudor—who wanted to restore the supremacy of the Roman Catholic Church. Mary Tudor called the Reformers “heretics” and strove to wipe them out. The heretics called her Bloody Mary. 

At a huge gathering of the public outside Old St. Paul’s Cathedral, Queen Mary’s chaplain was preaching from an outdoor pulpit. The audience—many of whom had come to know the love of God through the Reformers—got more and more agitated. 

Bradford and another man had been assigned to guard the chaplain, which they did. But someone in the crowd threw a dagger and narrowly missed the chaplain’s head. 

Of course, he ducked. But the crowd got more aggressive, so Bradford stepped up to the pulpit, rebuked the angry crowd, and managed to calm the uproar. When they did calm down, Bradford and the other men struggled to get the chaplain safely away. 

Then the bizarre happened. Queen Mary had Bradford arrested for illegal preaching and stirring up the rebellion. He had to stand before a council and defend himself. 

The accusers explained their reasoning—someone had thrown a dagger at the chaplain’s head, and the crowd was about to overrun and trample him. Bradford had the audacity to stand at the pulpit and calm them down—saving the chaplain’s life. He had no permission to do that. And since he had the power to calm them, that was proof he had started the riot. 

He refused to denounce his beliefs, so they condemned him and locked him up. 

As always Bradford took the setback in stride—and saw what happened as something God had allowed. To Bradford it was an opportunity to serve. 

In prison, he regularly held religious meetings and preached twice a day unless he was sick, and nobody stopped him. He was so trusted by the guards that in the evenings, he would leave the jail to minister to the sick—with only the promise he would return. The jailers knew he would come back, and he always did. 

Imprisoned for two years, Bradford briefly shared a cell with three other well-known Reformers. As it got close to the time he would be executed, he wrote to them, “Oh! dear fathers … I am about to leave my flesh in a world where I received it; but I go to a better world.… God grant it may make my persecutors better men.” 

He told them good-bye, “trusting shortly to see you where, having finished our warfare, we shall associate with all those who have faithfully followed the banner of the Captain of our salvation, made perfect through suffering, and never again be called to the field.” 

When the day of Bradford’s execution came, he was chained to the stake with another young Reformer. Publicly, Bradford asked forgiveness of anyone he had wronged, and he freely forgave all who had wronged him. Then before they lit the fire, he said to the young man, “Be of good comfort brother; for we shall have a merry supper with the Lord this night!” 

Who could you talk to today? Some men have a way with words, but God’s Word has a way with men. 

Mayhew, Richard A. “John Bradford (1510—1555): ‘O England, England, Repent!’” Crich Baptist Church – Derbyshire, UK. Accessed September 19, 2020. https://​www.crichbaptist.org/​articles/​john-bradford/. [intro] 

Tracy Borman, The Private Lives of the Tudors. London: Hodder & Stoughton, 2016. p. 240. 

Andrews, William. “St. Paul’s Cross.” from Old Church Lore. London: The Hull Press, 1891. pp.120–127. http://​elfinspell.com/​AndrewsCross.html.  

Story written by: Paula Moldenhauer, http://paulamoldenhauer.com/