Loading...
Search, filter, and discover the perfect illustration for your sermon
Free to browse · Sign up free to unlock most illustrations · Premium ($9.95/mo) for the full library of 50,000+ illustrations
Last summer, I had the privilege of witnessing a beautiful act of kindness unfold in our own community. It was during a hot July afternoon when an elderly woman, Mrs. Thompson, who had recently lost her husband, was struggling to...
Every morning for thirty-seven years, Eli Vasquez opened his diner on Magnolia Street in San Antonio at 5:15 a.m. sharp. Rain, ice storms, July heat...
In the bustling streets of our cities, where voices often clash with dissonance, there exists a quiet strength—a spirit of Nonviolent Resistance that echoes the same courage we find in the lives of biblical heroes. Imagine a community gathered, not...
In the autumn of 1785, William Wilberforce sat across from John Newton in a London parlor, convinced he needed to leave Parliament and enter the...
In the summer of 1936, a young American named Louis Zamperini finished the 5,000-meter race at the Berlin Olympics with such a blazing final lap...
In 1924, Scottish sprinter Eric Liddell stood at the center of an Olympic controversy in Paris. He had withdrawn from his best event, the 100...
In 2012, a brutal drought scorched 80 percent of America's farmland. Across southern Kansas, cattle ponds turned to cracked mud. Irrigation systems sputtered and failed....
In the 1992 Barcelona Olympics, British sprinter Derek Redmond was considered a medal favorite in the 400-meter semifinal. He had trained for this moment his...
On January 15, 2009, Captain Chesley "Sully" Sullenberger landed US Airways Flight 1549 on the Hudson River. But before that miraculous gliding descent, something remarkably...
On June 19, 1865, Major General Gordon Granger rode into Galveston, Texas, and read General Order No. 3: all enslaved people were free. The war...
In 2018, architect Li Wei completed a stunning public library in Tianjin, China — the Binhai Library, with its soaring white shelves cascading from floor...
On November 11, 1620, forty-one men crowded into the cramped main cabin of the Mayflower, anchored off the coast of Cape Cod. They had spent...
On May 22, 2011, an EF5 tornado carved a mile-wide path through Joplin, Missouri, killing 158 people and leveling entire neighborhoods in minutes. St. Mary's...
When Johann Sebastian Bach died in 1750, the world shrugged. His music was considered old-fashioned, overly complex, and within a generation his manuscripts gathered dust...
On August 5, 2010, thirty-three miners were trapped 2,300 feet underground in the San José copper mine in Chile's Atacama Desert. For seventeen days, no...
In 2018, mountaineer Adrian Ballinger sat at Camp 4 on Everest — 26,000 feet up — waiting. The summit was close enough to see, but...
On August 5, 2010, the San José copper mine in Chile's Atacama Desert collapsed, trapping thirty-three miners 2,300 feet underground. The rescue that followed became...
In the starvation bunker of Auschwitz, Block 11, a Franciscan priest named Maximilian Kolbe spent his final days doing something the guards had never witnessed....
On October 25, 1986, Bill Buckner crouched at first base for the Boston Red Sox in Game Six of the World Series. A routine ground...
On the morning of April 8, 1945, Dietrich Bonhoeffer stood in a makeshift chapel at the Schönberg prison school, surrounded by a handful of fellow...
In 1944, Corrie ten Boom and her sister Betsie huddled with other women in Barracks 28 at Ravensbrück concentration camp. The fleas were so thick...
In 2014, a small Baptist church in Macon, Georgia, discovered that the old piano sitting in their fellowship hall was a 1923 Steinway Model B,...
In the summer of 1924, the world watched as Scottish sprinter Eric Liddell made an astonishing choice. Favored to win gold in the 100-meter dash...
In 1924, Eric Liddell arrived in Paris as Britain's fastest sprinter, heavily favored to win gold in the 100 meters. Then the schedule was posted....