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The Man Who Left Gold Behind

In 1925, just months after winning Olympic gold in the 400 meters in Paris, Eric Liddell boarded a ship for northern China. The Scottish sprinter...

Colossians 3:1-4Universal

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The Seawall of Fudai

On March 11, 2011, a 9.0 earthquake shattered the ocean floor off Japan's coast, unleashing tsunami waves that obliterated entire coastal towns. Over eighteen thousand...

Psalm 46:2-3, 5-6, 8-9Universal

221 words

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The Sprinter Who Wouldn't Run

In the spring of 1924, Scottish sprinter Eric Liddell arrived in Paris for the Olympic Games as Britain's fastest man. Then he learned the 100-meter...

Luke 1:57-66, 80Universal

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 Race He Finally Won

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...

Universalforgiveness

254 words

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Ten Thousand Repairs

Right now, without your awareness or effort, something extraordinary is happening inside your body. Every single cell sustains between 10,000 and 1,000,000 DNA lesions every...

Universalfaith

213 words

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The Reconciliation and Forgiveness Challenge

Imagine a small town, where the sun casts a golden glow on the local park, a gathering place for families and friends. In this town, two families have lived side by side for generations, but a bitter feud has fractured...

Matthew 22:37-39Anglican

299 words

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Corrie ten Boom's Father and the Prodigal Nation

In the winter of 1944, Casper ten Boom was eighty-four years old when the Gestapo arrested him for hiding Jewish families in his Haarlem watchshop....

Hosea 11:1, 3-4, 8c-9Universal

252 words

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The Colonist Who Finally Saw

In 1514, a Spanish colonist named Bartolomé de las Casas stood in his church in Cuba preparing a Pentecost sermon when a passage from Sirach...

Psalm 72:1-7, 10-14Universal

240 words

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The Last Alarm at Station 12

On March 3, 2018, firefighter Captain Tom Royds pulled on his turnout gear for the final time at Kansas City's Station 12. After thirty-one years...

1 Corinthians 15:51-58Universal

242 words

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When the Lights Came Back to Joplin

On May 22, 2011, a mile-wide EF5 tornado carved through Joplin, Missouri, reducing entire neighborhoods to bare foundations. Where homes and schools once stood, there...

Genesis 1:1-3Universal

237 words

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The Text That Changed Everything

On January 15, 2009, passengers on US Airways Flight 1549 braced for impact as Captain Chesley "Sully" Sullenberger glided their crippled Airbus onto the Hudson...

Luke 2:10-11Universal

242 words

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The Olympian Who Ran Toward an Unseen Country

In 1924, Eric Liddell stood on the Olympic podium in Paris with a gold medal around his neck. The whole of Scotland celebrated him. Newspapers...

Hebrews 11:1-3, 8-16Universal

235 words

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The Miners Who Came Back

On October 13, 2010, a billion people worldwide watched their television screens as a narrow rescue capsule broke the surface at the San José mine...

Acts 2:14a, 22-32Universal

262 words

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A Word Across the Void

In 1825, Samuel Morse was in Washington painting a portrait of the Marquis de Lafayette when a horse messenger delivered a letter from his father:...

Genesis 1:1-3Universal

236 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

239 words

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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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The Note That Traveled 2,300 Feet

On August 22, 2010, a drill probe broke through rock at the San José mine in Chile's Atacama Desert. For seventeen days, thirty-three miners had...

Isaiah 52:7-10Universal

220 words

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The Relay That Never Ends

In 2018, Kathrine Switzer returned to the Boston Marathon — fifty-one years after she became the first woman to officially run it. In 1967, race...

Hebrews 11:29-12:2Universal

233 words

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The Salt Mine Beneath Detroit

Six hundred feet below the streets of Detroit lies a salt mine stretching across 1,500 acres. Since 1910, workers have descended into those depths to...

Matthew 5:13-20Universal

254 words

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When the Mountain Came Down

On May 18, 1980, Mount St. Helens exploded with the force of 500 atomic bombs. The blast flattened 230 square miles of old-growth forest in...

Psalm 97:1-2, 5-6, 9Universal

231 words

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Eric Liddell's Consecrated Stride

In 1924, Scottish sprinter Eric Liddell stunned the world by withdrawing from his best event at the Paris Olympics — the 100 meters — because...

1 Corinthians 6:12-20Universal

300 words

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Three Stirrings Before Aldersgate

In January 1736, a violent storm battered the ship carrying John Wesley to the Georgia colony. While English passengers screamed in terror, a group of...

1 Samuel 3:1-10Universal

214 words

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The Genome and the One Who Wrote It First

In the year 2003, Dr. Francis Collins stood before a bank of microphones and announced that the Human Genome Project was complete. After thirteen years...

Psalm 139:1-6, 13-18Universal

223 words