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The Ring Steve Bartman Never Expected

On October 14, 2003, Steve Bartman became the most hated man in Chicago. In Game 6 of the NLCS, with the Cubs five outs from...

Universalforgiveness

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The Watchman ofEli Cohen

In the autumn of 1884, a young Scottish minister named George Matheson — blind since the age of eighteen — set out on a walking...

Psalm 121Universal

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The Rock Beneath the Foundation

In 2010, engineers in Santiago, Chile, drilled a narrow borehole 2,300 feet into the earth to reach thirty-three miners trapped in the San José copper...

Matthew 16:13-19Universal

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The Invisible Shield Forty Miles Above Your Bed

Every night, while you sleep, the Earth faces an onslaught you never see. Thousands of meteoroids — some no bigger than a grain of sand,...

Psalm 121Universal

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The List That Saved 669 Children

In 1938, a young British stockbroker named Nicholas Winton visited Prague and saw Jewish families desperate to save their children from the Nazi threat closing...

John 6:37-40Universal

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The Letter That Changed Everything

In 2019, Alice Plebuch of Vancouver, Washington, received DNA test results that made no sense. She was 100% Irish Catholic — or so she'd believed...

Ephesians 3:1-12Universal

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When the Signal Finally Reached Everyone

On January 13, 2018, a false missile alert went out across Hawaii. Every phone on every island buzzed simultaneously with the same terrifying message: "BALLISTIC...

Acts 2:1-31Universal

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The Tree That Refused to Stay Buried

In October 2001, recovery workers sifting through the wreckage at Ground Zero discovered a Callery pear tree beneath the rubble — snapped nearly in half,...

Acts 2:14a, 22-32Universal

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The Survivor Tree

In October 2001, a recovery worker at Ground Zero noticed something impossible in the rubble. Buried beneath twisted steel and concrete dust stood a Callery...

Matthew 28:1-10Universal

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The Lighthouse Keeper of Moelfre

On the night of October 27, 1859, a hurricane-force storm slammed into the Welsh coast at Moelfre. The Royal Charter, a clipper ship carrying 450...

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

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The Repair Enzymes of Grace

Every day, the DNA inside a single human cell sustains between ten thousand and one hundred thousand lesions — breaks, mismatches, and corruptions caused by...

Universalredemption

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The Father Who Ran

At the 1992 Barcelona Olympics, British sprinter Derek Redmond was considered a medal contender in the 400-meter semifinal. He had spent years clawing back from...

Universalidentity

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The Signal That Never Goes Silent

When NASA launched Voyager 1 in 1977, no one expected they would still be listening nearly fifty years later. Today, Voyager 1 is over fifteen...

Universallove

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Life at the Bottom

On January 23, 1960, oceanographer Jacques Piccard and Navy Lieutenant Don Walsh climbed into the bathyscaphe Trieste and began their descent into the Mariana Trench...

Universalcourage

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The Race You Don't Have to Finish Alone

At the 1992 Barcelona Olympics, British sprinter Derek Redmond lined up for the 400-meter semifinal with years of training behind him and a lifetime of...

Universalfreedom

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The Brain That Obedience Reshapes

In 2000, neuroscientist Eleanor Maguire at University College London made a remarkable discovery. She scanned the brains of London taxi drivers — people who spend...

Universalobedience

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Victim Number One

On September 11, 2001, Father Mychal Judge ran toward the Twin Towers while thousands fled. The sixty-eight-year-old Franciscan friar served as chaplain to the New...

Wisdom 3:1-9Universal

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The Backup No One Knew Existed

In 1998, Pixar nearly lost *Toy Story 2* — the entire film. An engineer accidentally triggered a command that began deleting the movie's files from...

Universalrestoration

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The Race That Changed Everything

In the 1992 Barcelona Olympics, British sprinter Derek Redmond lined up for the 400-meter semifinal. He had trained for years, endured multiple surgeries, and overcome...

Universalperseverance

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Dancing on the Rubble

On May 22, 2011, a mile-wide tornado carved through Joplin, Missouri, killing 158 people and leveling entire neighborhoods in minutes. Among the wreckage stood what...

Habakkuk 3:17-19Universal

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The Race That Changed the Finish Line

In the 1992 Barcelona Olympics, British sprinter Derek Redmond lined up for the 400-meter semifinal carrying the weight of four years of preparation. He had...

Universalperseverance

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The Lighthouse at Cape Hatteras

On the Outer Banks of North Carolina, the Cape Hatteras Lighthouse has thrown its beam across the Atlantic since 1870. Sailors caught in the treacherous...

James 1:17Universal

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When the Body Learns to Move Again

Orthopedic surgeons have a name for it: adhesive capsulitis, commonly known as frozen shoulder. It begins quietly, often after an injury the patient thought had...

Universalfreedom

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The Part That Was Never Junk

For decades, scientists dismissed roughly 98% of human DNA as "junk" — meaningless filler between the genes that actually mattered. It seemed like biological waste,...

Universalpurpose

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