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The Storm Cellar on Maple Creek Road

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Sarah Hendricks had lived her whole life on the Kansas plains, and she knew the sky the way a sailor knows the sea. She could...

This is stories & illustrations, drawing on Psalm 91:1-2.

Sarah Hendricks had lived her whole life on the Kansas plains, and she knew the sky the way a sailor knows the sea. She could read a greenish horizon, smell the electricity in still air, feel the particular silence that settles over a farm just before everything turns violent. The afternoon her youngest daughter was visiting with the grandchildren, the radio crackled its warning at 3:47 p.…

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Evening Prayer: Protection Through Night

Guardian God, as darkness falls and I close my eyes, I trust myself into Your keeping. Guard my body as I sleep— every breath, every heartbeat. Guard my mind as I dream— from fear, from nightmares, from anxiety.

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War of the Worlds: God Our Refuge in Trouble (Psalm 46:1-3)

In War of the Worlds, Ray Ferrier tries to protect his children from alien invasion. Everything fails—cars, phones, the military. Civilization collapses in hours. But Ray keeps his children alive through every catastrophe. God is our refuge and strength, an ever-present help in trouble.

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The Storm Cellar on Route 9

Margaret Hensley was hanging laundry on the line behind her farmhouse outside Joplin, Missouri, when the sky turned the color of a bruise. It was...

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The Shelter That Held When Its Builders Could Not

In February 1944, Dutch police raided the Béjé, the ten Boom family's narrow house on Barteljorisstraat in Haarlem, Netherlands. Corrie ten Boom, her father Casper,...

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