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The Night the Beach Began to Move

In the summer of 2019, a twenty-year-old marine biology intern named Adriana arrived at Ostional Beach in Costa Rica to help monitor olive ridley sea...

1 Samuel 3:1-10Universal

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The Weight of a One-Way Ticket

In 1956, a twenty-three-year-old Hungarian cellist named Katalin Varga walked across the Austrian border carrying nothing but her instrument case and a photograph of her...

Ruth 2:12Universal

227 words

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George Müller and the School of Grace

In 1825, a young German theology student named George Müller spent his evenings gambling, drinking, and stealing from friends. He once forged his father's signature...

Titus 2:11-12Universal

233 words

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The Night the Sand Began to Whisper

In 2019, twenty-two-year-old Maria Chen joined a sea turtle conservation team on the beaches of Padre Island, Texas. Her job during the night shift was...

1 Samuel 3:1-10Universal

244 words

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Moravian Love That Changed the World

In August 1727, a fractured community of religious refugees gathered at Herrnhut, a small estate in Saxony owned by Count Nikolaus Ludwig von Zinzendorf. These...

John 13:31-35Universal

240 words

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The Fisherman's Son Who Came Home

Maria Constantinou had not slept a full night in fourteen months. Not since her son Dimitri's fishing boat vanished in a storm off the coast...

Luke 2:10-11Universal

250 words

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The Moment Augustine Put On the Light

In the summer of 386 AD, a thirty-one-year-old rhetoric professor sat weeping in a garden in Milan. Augustine of Hippo had spent years chasing ambition,...

Romans 13:11-14Universal

237 words

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Set Apart Before the First Whistle

In 2019, sixteen-year-old Marcus Freeman Jr. sat in his father's office at Purdue, watching game film he didn't fully understand. His dad pointed at the...

Romans 1:1-7Universal

241 words

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The Sonar Operator on Her First Watch

In the summer of 2018, Petty Officer Third Class Maria Sandoval sat in the sonar room of the USS Bainbridge, two weeks into her first...

1 Samuel 3:1-10Universal

270 words

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What the MRI Reveals

Dr. Sarah Chen, a radiologist at Johns Hopkins, once described her work this way: "Patients walk into my office looking perfectly fine on the outside....

Hebrews 4:12Universal

256 words

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The One-Eyed Preacher on Azusa Street

In April 1906, a one-eyed Black preacher named William Joseph Seymour stood in a converted stable on Azusa Street in Los Angeles and watched the...

Joel 2:28-29Universal

222 words

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The Trellis on Maple Street

Every spring, Margaret Kowalski wages war with the wisteria in her backyard on Maple Street in Savannah. Left alone for a single season, the vine...

Titus 2:11-12Universal

216 words

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The Casserole on the Doorstep

In 2018, a family in Greenville, South Carolina found their mailbox smashed and racial slurs spray-painted across their garage door. The Hendersons had moved into...

Luke 6:27-38Universal

228 words

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Augustine's Garden

In the summer of 386 AD, a thirty-one-year-old rhetoric professor sat weeping beneath a fig tree in a Milan garden. Augustine of Hippo had spent...

Colossians 3:1-11Universal

245 words

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Written in the Wings

Every autumn, millions of Monarch butterflies rise from fields across North America and fly up to 3,000 miles south to a cluster of oyamel fir...

Universalpurpose

248 words

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The Surgeon in the Laundry Room

Maria Vargas works the overnight shift in the laundry facility at Northwestern Memorial Hospital in Chicago. She folds fitted sheets with mechanical precision, sorts surgical...

Colossians 3:1-4Universal

258 words

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The Bishop Who Knew the Alpha and Omega

In 155 AD, the Roman proconsul in Smyrna — one of the very churches John addressed in Revelation — dragged an elderly bishop named Polycarp...

Revelation 1:4-8Universal

247 words

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The First Harvest at Davis Bend

In 1864, along a bend of the Mississippi River, formerly enslaved men and women walked rows of cotton and corn they had planted with their...

Joshua 5:9-12Universal

261 words

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The Surgeon Who Showed His Scars

In 2018, a young woman named Maria sat in a consultation room at Johns Hopkins, terrified. She'd been diagnosed with a rare heart condition requiring...

John 20:19-31Universal

253 words

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The Bakery That Wouldn't Close on Sundays

For twenty-three years, Maria Gonzalez ran a small panaderia on East Cesar Chavez Street in Austin, Texas. When a massive commercial development went up across...

Matthew 5:13-20Universal

241 words

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Science Illustration: Learning from Failure

In the heart of a small town, there lived a scientist named Dr. Sarah, renowned for her groundbreaking work in climate change. With each experiment, she aimed to uncover the mysteries of our planet. Yet, despite her brilliance, she encountered...

Job 38:1-7Universal

249 words

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The Cellist of Sarajevo

During the siege of Sarajevo in 1993, mortar shells had reduced the city's beloved National Library to a smoldering skeleton. Bread lines became killing fields....

Habakkuk 3:17-19Universal

248 words

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George Müller's Morning Secret

In 1841, George Müller made a discovery that transformed the remaining fifty-seven years of his life. The German-born pastor in Bristol, England, had spent years...

Psalm 1Universal

236 words

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Eric Liddell's Contentment at Weihsien

In February 1945, Eric Liddell was dying of a brain tumor inside a Japanese internment camp in Weihsien, China. The Olympic gold medalist who had...

Psalm 16Universal

225 words