On December 14, 2010, miners trapped in the Copiapó mine in Chile spent sixty-nine days underground, surviving on two spoonfuls of tuna every forty-eight hours....

Mark 16:1-8Universal

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The Marathon Runner Who Crawled to the Water Station

In 2019, during the Badwater 135 ultramarathon across Death Valley, runner Shannon Farar-Griefer collapsed at mile 72. Temperatures had reached 130 degrees. Her crew had...

Psalm 63:1-8Universal

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The Huddle That Survives the Storm

In the Antarctic winter, when temperatures plunge to negative sixty degrees and winds scream at a hundred miles per hour, emperor penguins do something remarkable....

John 13:34-35Universal

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Eric Liddell and the Joy of Willing Obedience

In 1924, Eric Liddell stunned the sporting world by withdrawing from the 100-meter dash at the Paris Olympics — his best event — because the...

Psalm 40:7-11Universal

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Wilberforce and the Long Wait for Justice

In 1787, William Wilberforce sat in his garden at Holwood House in Kent, weeping over Thomas Clarkson's evidence of the slave trade — iron shackles...

Habakkuk 1:1-4; 2:1-4Universal

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The Library That Had No Walls

In 2018, architect Li Wei completed a stunning public library in Tianjin, China — the Binhai Library, with its soaring white shelves cascading from floor...

Ephesians 3:8-12, 14-19Universal

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The Village That Never Raised Its Voice

Andre Trocme was a pastor in Le Chambon-sur-Lignon, a small Protestant village in the mountains of southern France. When the Nazis occupied France in 1940,...

Isaiah 42:1-9Universal

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The Prisoner Who Took Another Man's Place

In July 1941, a prisoner escaped from Auschwitz. As punishment, the SS deputy commander Karl Fritzsch selected ten men from Block 14 to die by...

1 Peter 3:18-22Universal

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The Coach Who Believed First

In 2019, a high school track coach named John Woodruff in Richmond, Virginia, noticed a freshman named DeShawn sitting alone in the bleachers after school...

Titus 2:11-12Universal

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When the Universe Came Into Focus

For decades, the Hubble Space Telescope sent back images that reshaped how we understood the cosmos — smudges of light resolved into galaxies, faint signals...

Hebrews 1:1-4Universal

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The Telegram That Changed Everything on Armistice Morning

On November 11, 1918, Private Arthur Brooks huddled in a muddy trench near Verdun, France. For four years, the Western Front had been a landscape...

Luke 2:10-11Universal

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The Bridge Builder of Mostar

In 1993, shelling destroyed the Stari Most, a sixteenth-century Ottoman bridge arching over the Neretva River in Mostar, Bosnia. The bridge had connected the city's...

Isaiah 42:1-9Universal

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The Siren No One Believed

On May 22, 2011, the tornado sirens in Joplin, Missouri, began wailing at 5:11 p.m. Most residents barely looked up. The sirens had sounded twice...

Zephaniah 1:14-15Universal

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The Candy Bomber's Parachutes

In 1948, three years after Allied bombs had reduced Berlin to rubble, a young American pilot named Gail Halvorsen stood at the Tempelhof Airport fence....

Genesis 9:8-17Universal

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Shackleton's Fourth Attempt

When Ernest Shackleton's Antarctic expedition collapsed in 1916, he was forced to leave twenty-two men stranded on desolate Elephant Island while he sailed eight hundred...

Luke 15:3-7Universal

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Every Flag, One Song

On June 21, 2015, worshippers packed the TD Arena in Charleston, South Carolina — just four days after a gunman murdered nine people during a...

Revelation 7:2-4, 9-14Universal

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The Condemned Highway That Saved a City

In 2019, engineers inspecting the Hernando de Soto Bridge connecting Arkansas and Tennessee discovered a critical fracture in a steel beam — a crack that...

Matthew 3:1-12Universal

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The Race He Didn't Run

Eric Liddell was the fastest man in Britain. Heading into the 1924 Paris Olympics, he was the heavy favorite to win the 100 meters —...

Universalobedience

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The Race He Wasn't Supposed to Run

Eric Liddell was Britain's fastest man heading into the 1924 Paris Olympics. Every expert expected him to win gold in the 100-meter dash. But when...

Universalobedience

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The Last Miles of Eliud Kipchoge

On October 12, 2019, in Vienna's Prater Park, Eliud Kipchoge became the first human being to run a marathon in under two hours. But what...

2 Timothy 4:6-8, 17-18Universal

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