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After Jesus ascended, He told the disciples to WAIT in Jerusalem for the Spirit. They waited 10 days—praying, worshipping, expecting. Then Pentecost exploded. The waiting wasn't passive; it was pregnant with expectation. "Those who wait on the LORD shall renew...
After his wife Joy died, C.S. Lewis wrote "A Grief Observed"—raw, honest, doubting. He questioned everything, including God. "Where is God?" he demanded. "Go to Him when your need is desperate... and what do you find?
On February 2, 1949, Ben Hogan's car collided head-on with a Greyhound bus on a foggy Texas highway. He shattered his pelvis, fractured his collarbone,...
In the summer of 2021, Simone Biles stood on the world's biggest stage at the Tokyo Olympics and did something no one expected. The greatest...
Next time you scan a QR code at a restaurant or on a concert ticket, try something. Cover a corner with your thumb. It still...
In December 1944, Corrie ten Boom lay on a thin mattress in Ravensbrück concentration camp, weakened by fleas, hunger, and grief. Her sister Betsie had...
In August 1945, Branch Rickey sat across from Jackie Robinson in the Brooklyn Dodgers front office and laid out a demand that would test everything...
In the Hermitage Museum in Saint Petersburg hangs one of Rembrandt van Rijn's final paintings — *The Return of the Prodigal Son*, completed around 1669,...
On May 24, 1738, John Wesley walked through the streets of London as a defeated man. He had crossed the Atlantic to convert Native Americans...
In 1600, the Italian painter Caravaggio unveiled a masterpiece in the church of San Luigi dei Francesi in Rome. *The Calling of Saint Matthew* depicts...
Margaret sat in her dimly lit living room, the weight of the past few months pressing heavily on her shoulders. Diagnosed with a chronic illness, she felt a storm of anxiety swirling within her—a tempest of uncertainty and fear. One...
On July 26, 1833, a frail and nearly blind William Wilberforce lay in his bed on Cadogan Place, London. For forty-six years he had fought...
In Michelangelo's *Creation of Adam* on the Sistine Chapel ceiling, most people notice the gap between the two famous fingers — that charged space where...
In 1935, Dietrich Bonhoeffer opened an illegal seminary in Finkenwalde, a small town on the Baltic coast of Germany. The Reich church had already capitulated,...
On the night of November 9, 1989, East Berliners gathered at the checkpoints that had imprisoned them for twenty-eight years. When the gates finally opened,...
In 1836, George Müller of Bristol, England, began praying for the conversion of five personal friends. He prayed daily, by name, with quiet certainty that...
When Luther was condemned and hunted, his friends staged a "kidnapping" to hide him in Wartburg Castle. Luther called it "the best thing that happened" to him.
In 1748, John Newton nearly drowned when a violent storm battered his ship in the North Atlantic. He had spent years in the slave trade,...
In 1629, a young Rembrandt van Rijn painted himself wearing velvet and gold, chin lifted, eyes blazing with ambition. He was twenty-three and convinced the...
In the 1992 Barcelona Olympics, British sprinter Derek Redmond lined up for the 400-meter semifinal with everything he had trained for on the line. Halfway...
In 2012, a team of Stanford geneticists accomplished something remarkable. By sequencing fragments of fetal DNA circulating in a mother's bloodstream, they mapped nearly the...
In 1694, a young Isaac Watts sat in his father's Nonconformist chapel in Southampton, England, frustrated by the plodding, joyless psalm-singing that passed for worship....
At the 1992 Barcelona Olympics, Derek Redmond was favored to medal in the 400-meter semifinal. Halfway through the race, he felt a sharp pop —...
In February 1949, golfer Ben Hogan nearly died when his car collided head-on with a Greyhound bus on a foggy Texas highway. He shattered his...