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Blooming Where You Never Chose to Be

When Hurricane Katrina scattered 100,000 residents of New Orleans across the country in 2005, many landed in Houston with nothing but the clothes on their...

Jeremiah 29:1, 4-7Universal

233 words

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The Morehouse Moment

In May 2019, billionaire Robert F. Smith stood at the podium during Morehouse College's commencement and made an announcement nobody expected. After delivering a standard...

Luke 4:14-21Universal

223 words

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The Runner Who Finished on a Different Track

Eric Liddell won Olympic gold in the 400 meters at the 1924 Paris Games — a moment immortalized in *Chariots of Fire*. But Liddell's greatest...

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

233 words

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The Olympic Champion Behind the Wire

Eric Liddell won gold at the 1924 Paris Olympics, a moment later immortalized in *Chariots of Fire*. But twenty years after that triumph, the world...

Colossians 3:1-4Universal

231 words

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When the Mountain Reminded Us Who Reigns

On May 18, 1980, Mount St. Helens erupted with the force of five hundred atomic bombs. The blast leveled 230 square miles of forest in...

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

222 words

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The Miners Who Could Not Stop Singing

In 1904, a twenty-six-year-old Welsh coal miner named Evan Roberts stood before a small congregation in Loughor and spoke with trembling conviction about the saving...

Isaiah 12:2-6Universal

238 words

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The Deepest Trench

In 2012, filmmaker James Cameron descended nearly seven miles to the bottom of the Mariana Trench in the western Pacific — the deepest known point...

Micah 7:18-19Universal

233 words

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The Engine That Never Turned Over

Every autumn in Rochester, Minnesota, old Mr. Halverson would spend three weekends detailing his 1967 Chevrolet Camaro. He buffed the cherry-red paint until it gleamed....

James 2:17Universal

227 words

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The Runners of the Western Front

On November 11, 1918, at 5:10 in the morning, the Armistice was signed in a railway carriage in the Forest of Compiegne. But the cease-fire...

Isaiah 52:7-10Universal

250 words

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The Satisfying Collapse of Notre-Dame's Scaffolding

On December 7, 2024, the world watched as the doors of Notre-Dame de Paris swung open for the first time in five years. The cathedral...

1 Corinthians 15:35-38, 42-50Universal

263 words

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A Contemporary Holy Spirit Story

In our bustling, modern world, the invitation to embrace the Holy Spirit can sometimes feel daunting, as if we are navigating a stormy sea without a compass. Yet, much like the early followers of Christ, we too are called to...

Acts 2:42-47Black Church

293 words

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The Pace That Won the World

On October 12, 2019, Eliud Kipchoge ran a marathon in 1:59:40—the first human being in history to complete 26.2 miles in under two hours. The...

Universalpatience

224 words

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The Cathedral That Trusted Tomorrow

In 1883, a young architect named Antoni Gaudí took over an ambitious project in Barcelona — the Basilica de la Sagrada Família. He poured himself...

Universaltrust

259 words

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The First Man Up from the Depths

When the Phoenix capsule broke through the surface of the San José mine on October 13, 2010, Florencio Ávalos stepped out into the Chilean night...

1 Corinthians 15:20-27Universal

217 words

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The Diver Who Surfaced at Tham Luang

For nine days, families gathered outside Tham Luang cave in northern Thailand barely slept. Twelve boys from the Wild Boars soccer team and their twenty-five-year-old...

Isaiah 52:7-10Universal

253 words

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The Retired Firefighter and the Sound of His Own Name

For thirty-one years, Captain Ray Muñoz slept with one ear open at Station 14 in San Antonio. He could distinguish the pitch of a smoke...

1 Samuel 3:1-10Universal

264 words

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The Nails of Coventry Cathedral

On the morning of November 15, 1940, the people of Coventry, England, emerged from their shelters to find their beloved medieval cathedral reduced to a...

Isaiah 2:1-5Universal

235 words

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The Bridge His Grandfather Started

In 1929, Joseph Strauss submitted his final design for the Golden Gate Bridge, but he never saw traffic cross it. He died just months after...

2 Samuel 7:4-5a, 12-14a, 16Universal

234 words

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The Death That Gave You Fingers

Look at your hands for a moment. Spread your fingers wide. In the earliest weeks of your development in the womb, those fingers didn't exist...

Universalpurpose

243 words

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The Weight-Bearing Word

In 2010, thirty-three Chilean miners were trapped 2,300 feet underground in the San José copper mine near Copiapó. For seventeen days, the world heard nothing....

Psalm 33:4-6, 9, 18-20, 22Universal

233 words

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The Note From Underground

On August 5, 2010, the San Jose copper mine in Chile's Atacama Desert collapsed, trapping thirty-three miners half a mile beneath the earth. For seventeen...

Matthew 28:1-10Universal

231 words

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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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Methuselah's Second Life

In 1963, archaeologists excavating the ancient fortress of Masada in Israel's Judean Desert uncovered a small clay jar containing date palm seeds. For four decades,...

1 Corinthians 15:35-38, 42-50Universal

229 words

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The Father Who Came Back to the Table

In 2018, a restaurant owner in Memphis named Frank watched his teenage son steal $4,000 from the register and disappear for three weeks. The money...

Exodus 34:4b-6, 8-9Universal

255 words