Sep 20, 2026 · 30 min · 9 segments
In September 1876, floodwaters carried a little North Carolina church off its foundation and onto the very lot its congregation had been refused. That’s where this episode begins. It also follows the…
Adam JohnsonHost
The Westminster Shorter Catechism, a little question and answer book written to teach deep theological truth to children, defines God's providence this way.
his most holy, wise, and powerful, preserving and governing of all his creatures and all their actions.
Every drop of water, every swirling eddy, every boisterous wind that lifted a Methodist church in Swan Quarter, North Carolina, and set it down where it belonged.
A man can hold all the right theology in his head and still come apart when the storm actually hits, when the job disappears, when the diagnosis comes, when everything he built is floating away down the main street of his life.
It's the settled conviction that the hand that governs winds and floods and kings and dogs is the same hand that governs him.
Providence has been at work all along the corridor of time, arranging events, timing encounters, and supplying needs we didn't even know how to ask for.
And every so often, history hands us a story where you can see it plainly, from beginning to end, like a thread running through a tapestry.
It's the story of a Scottish monk named John Craig, a brilliant, earnest young man who prayed his way into a monastery, reasoned his way out of the Roman Catholic Church, and very nearly died for it.
And at the end of his strength, he was provided for by a dog that walked out of the forest carrying a purse.
The Westminster Shorter Catechism, a little question and answer book written to teach deep theological truth to children, defines God's providence this way.
his most holy, wise, and powerful, preserving and governing of all his creatures and all their actions.
Every drop of water, every swirling eddy, every boisterous wind that lifted a Methodist church in Swan Quarter, North Carolina, and set it down where it belonged.
A man can hold all the right theology in his head and still come apart when the storm actually hits, when the job disappears, when the diagnosis comes, when everything he built is floating away down the main street of his life.
It's the settled conviction that the hand that governs winds and floods and kings and dogs is the same hand that governs him.
Providence has been at work all along the corridor of time, arranging events, timing encounters, and supplying needs we didn't even know how to ask for.
And every so often, history hands us a story where you can see it plainly, from beginning to end, like a thread running through a tapestry.
It's the story of a Scottish monk named John Craig, a brilliant, earnest young man who prayed his way into a monastery, reasoned his way out of the Roman Catholic Church, and very nearly died for it.
And at the end of his strength, he was provided for by a dog that walked out of the forest carrying a purse.
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