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When the Ground Opened and Light Poured In

On October 13, 2010, shift foreman Luis Urzúa sat 2,300 feet below the Atacama Desert in Chile, where he and thirty-two other miners had been...

Acts 12:1-11Universal

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The Sailor's Cure Hiding in Plain Sight

For nearly three hundred years, scurvy was the most feared killer on the open sea. Between 1500 and 1800, it claimed more sailors' lives than...

John 8:32Universal

241 words

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The Teacher Who Wouldn't Walk Away

In 2018, Katie Blomquist, a first-grade teacher in North Charleston, South Carolina, noticed her students had no bicycles. Not a single one. Most had never...

Isaiah 50:4-9aUniversal

235 words

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When Handel Picked Up the Pen

In the summer of 1741, George Frideric Handel was a broken man. The composer who had once filled London's grandest theaters now faced crippling debt....

Universalfaith

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The Composer Who Wrote His Way Out of the Grave

In the summer of 1741, George Frideric Handel was a ruined man. Four years earlier, a stroke had paralyzed his right side. Creditors circled. London...

Universalredemption

226 words

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Built for the Flight

In 2007, a team of scientists led by Robert Gill at the U.S. Geological Survey tracked a bar-tailed godwit they called E7 as she flew...

Universalpurpose

228 words

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A Father Who Wouldn't Stay in the Stands

On August 3, 1992, British sprinter Derek Redmond lined up for the 400-meter semifinal at the Barcelona Olympics. He had trained his entire life for...

Universallove

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When Redemption - Contemporary Example

There’s a woman named Sarah, a member of our community, whose story resonates deeply with the themes of redemption and transformation. Not long ago, Sarah found herself trapped in a cycle of addiction that had consumed her life for years....

Isaiah 40:31Roman Catholic

272 words

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The Capsule That Carried Them Through the Fire

On July 24, 1969, the Apollo 11 command module Columbia hit Earth's atmosphere at nearly 25,000 miles per hour. The exterior temperature reached 5,000 degrees...

1 Peter 3:18-22Universal

235 words

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Lessons from Political Division & Unity - Quote

In the midst of turbulent political waters, we might feel like sailors battling a storm at sea. Imagine a small boat, tossed by waves, with a diverse crew aboard—each member representing a different perspective, each voice vying for attention as...

James 1:27Pentecostal

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The Tree That Thrives on the Heights

High in the White Mountains of eastern California, bristlecone pines cling to limestone ridges where almost nothing else survives. One of them, named Methuselah, has...

Habakkuk 3:17-19Universal

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The News That Reached Galveston

On June 19, 1865, Union Major General Gordon Granger stood on the balcony of Ashton Villa in Galveston, Texas, and read General Order No. 3...

Luke 2:10-11Universal

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The Finish Line His Father Wouldn't Let Him Miss

In the 1992 Barcelona Olympics, British sprinter Derek Redmond lined up for the 400-meter semifinal carrying the weight of years — injuries, surgeries, and a...

Universalhope

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The Note From Camp Hope

On October 17, 2010, a billion people watched a television feed from the Atacama Desert in Chile. But the real moment had come weeks earlier,...

Isaiah 52:7-10Universal

240 words

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The Voice in the Hampshire Garden

On February 7, 1837, sixteen-year-old Florence Nightingale sat in the garden of her family's estate at Embley Park and heard what she later described as...

Luke 1:26-38Universal

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Healing That Walks with a Limp

In February 1949, golfer Ben Hogan's car collided head-on with a Greyhound bus on a foggy Texas highway. His pelvis was fractured in two places....

Universalhealing

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The Library That Held More Than Anyone Could Read

In 2003, a janitor named Emilio Sanchez worked the night shift at the Library of Congress in Washington, D.C. For years, he mopped floors and...

Ephesians 3:8-12, 14-19Universal

249 words

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Four Years in the Dark

In 2007, researchers from the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute spotted a deep-sea octopus clinging to a rocky ledge, 4,600 feet beneath the Pacific. Over...

Universalsacrifice

225 words

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The Man in Black Behind the Walls

On January 13, 1968, Johnny Cash walked into Folsom State Prison carrying nothing but a guitar and a voice that sounded like it had been...

Universalfreedom

236 words

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The Trickle That Revived a Nation

In the autumn of 1904, a twenty-six-year-old Welsh coal miner named Evan Roberts stood before seventeen people in a small chapel in Loughor, Wales. His...

Ezekiel 47:1-2, 8-9, 12Universal

215 words

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The Code They Called Junk

For decades, geneticists dismissed nearly 98 percent of human DNA as "junk" — meaningless filler between the genes that actually mattered. It had no obvious...

Universalpurpose

241 words

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The Drop No One Sees

In 1927, Professor Thomas Parnell at the University of Queensland set up one of the most extraordinary experiments in scientific history. He heated a lump...

Universalpatience

238 words

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The Gold Medal He Never Chased

In 1924, Scottish sprinter Eric Liddell arrived at the Paris Olympics as Britain's fastest man. He was the heavy favorite in the 100 meters —...

Universalsacrifice

237 words

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The Notification She Almost Silenced

In 2019, a pediatric nurse named Clara Mendes in São Paulo, Brazil, kept waking at 3 a.m. with the same persistent thought: check on the...

1 Samuel 3:1-10Universal

245 words