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As we delve into the intermingling of Healthcare and Healing Ministry with our Christian faith, let us pause to reflect on the profound promise found in Jeremiah 29:11: “For I know the plans I have for you,” declares the Lord,...
On March 4, 1993, Jim Valvano could barely walk to the podium at Madison Square Garden. The former NC State basketball coach, diagnosed with metastatic...
In our rapidly changing digital landscape, we often find ourselves navigating a sea of information and connection that can feel overwhelming. Imagine for a moment a young woman named Sarah, a passionate follower of Christ who pours her heart into...
In our fast-paced, often overwhelming world, the call for Environmental Justice resonates deeply, especially for people of faith. It’s a challenge that requires not only awareness but also heart and action. Imagine for a moment the prophet Isaiah, standing amidst...
On a sweltering July day in 1941, ten men stood trembling in the yard of Auschwitz. A prisoner had escaped, and deputy commandant Karl Fritzsch...
On September 4, 1993, Jim Abbott took the mound for the New York Yankees against the Cleveland Indians. Abbott was born without a right hand....
In a bustling city, there was a small, vibrant community center called The Bridge. This place was a refuge for those wrestling with questions of faith, identity, and belonging. Every Saturday afternoon, people from diverse backgrounds would gather for a...
In January 1791, William Wilberforce sat exhausted in his London study, nearly ready to abandon his campaign against the slave trade. Four years of parliamentary...
On August 9, 1943, Franz Jägerstätter was executed by guillotine at Brandenburg-Görden Prison in Germany. His crime was simple: he refused to swear an oath...
On March 4, 1993, college basketball coach Jim Valvano walked to the podium at the first-ever ESPY Awards. Cancer was consuming his body. He needed...
In C.S. Lewis's *The Voyage of the Dawn Treader*, the boy Eustace Scrubb turns into a dragon. His greed and selfishness have finally taken outward...
In 2002, Sydney Brenner, H. Robert Horvitz, and John Sulston received the Nobel Prize in Medicine for their research on apoptosis — programmed cell death....
In the heart of a bustling city, there was a small café, a refuge amidst the chaos. An elderly man named Mr. Thompson sat at his usual corner table, his hands wrapped around a steaming mug of coffee. Each morning,...
In Charles Dickens's *A Tale of Two Cities*, Sydney Carton is a man who has wasted his life. Brilliant but broken, he drinks too much,...
Pilots call it V1. On the flight deck of a Boeing 737, every takeoff reaches a precise moment — calculated to the knot based on...
Lord of all that is seen and unseen, You who knelt in garden dirt to shape the first human being with Your own hands — remind me today what that means. When I pass the woman collecting cans at dawn...
On June 12, 1939, Dietrich Bonhoeffer stepped off a ship onto the docks of New York City, safely an ocean away from Hitler's Germany. Friends...
In the spring of 1508, Michelangelo Buonarroti stood before Pope Julius II in Rome and protested. He was a sculptor, not a painter. His hands...
In 1741, George Frideric Handel was a man the world had written off. His operas had fallen out of fashion. Creditors circled. A stroke four...
As we gather today, I invite you to linger a moment in the stillness of Psalm 46:10: "Be still, and know that I am God." This verse whispers to us in our busy lives, urging us to pause and reflect...
On April 15, 1947, Jackie Robinson stepped onto the grass at Ebbets Field in Brooklyn, wearing number 42, and became the first Black man to...
In Victor Hugo's *Les Misérables*, a convict named Jean Valjean is released after nineteen years of hard labor. No inn will take him. He sleeps...
In late July 1941, after a prisoner escaped from Auschwitz, deputy commandant Karl Fritzsch lined up the men of Block 14 and selected ten to...
In the winter of 1748, Johann Sebastian Bach sat at his desk in Leipzig, his eyesight failing, his hands stiffened by age. He was sixty-three...