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The Code That Kept Descending

On July 20, 1969, as the Apollo 11 lunar module descended toward the Moon's surface, alarms started blaring. The onboard computer flashed 1202 and 1201...

Universalcourage

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The Voice That Refused a Lesser Name

In 1820, six-week-old Fanny Crosby was blinded when a man posing as a doctor applied a mustard poultice to her inflamed eyes. The world would...

Universalidentity

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Over-the-Air

In 2019, Hurricane Dorian bore down on Florida, and Tesla owners discovered something remarkable. Overnight, while their cars sat parked in garages, Tesla pushed an...

Universaltransformation

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The Cells That Gave Everything

In 2004, a team of researchers led by Arturo Zychlinsky at the Max Planck Institute made a startling discovery about how our bodies fight infection....

Universalsacrifice

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The Song That Started with One Honest Step

In 1887, at a D.L. Moody evangelistic meeting, a young man stood during the testimony time. He was not a polished speaker. He had no...

Universalobedience

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The Silver the Bishop Wagered on a Thief

In Victor Hugo's *Les Misérables*, a convict named Jean Valjean stumbles to the door of Bishop Myriel after nineteen years in prison. No inn will...

Universaltrust

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The Song That Sailed Over Sorrow

In 1873, Horatio Spafford put his wife and four young daughters on the SS Ville du Havre, bound for England. He planned to follow once...

Universalhealing

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The Song Nobody Wanted

In 1984, Leonard Cohen finished a song that had consumed him for nearly five years. He had filled notebook after notebook with draft verses —...

Universalpatience

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Standing Before the Stone

On Easter Sunday, 1939, Marian Anderson stood on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial and opened her mouth to sing. Seventy-five thousand people stretched across...

Universalcourage

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When the Ocean Itself Became a Hymn

In November 1873, Horatio Spafford stood on the deck of a ship crossing the Atlantic and stared down at the cold water below. Somewhere beneath...

Universalhope

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The Song That Started With a Stammer

In 1886, at a Dwight L. Moody revival meeting in Brockton, Massachusetts, a young man stood during the testimony service. He was no theologian. He...

Universalobedience

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The Slowest Healing the Body Knows

Australian neurologist Sir Sydney Sunderland spent decades studying what happens when a nerve is damaged. His landmark 1951 classification system, still used in operating rooms...

Universalpatience

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The Cells That Keep the Heart Beating

In 1907, British physiologist Arthur Keith and medical student Martin Flack discovered a tiny cluster of cells in the upper right chamber of the heart...

Universalpurpose

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Silver Candlesticks and Scandalous Grace

In Victor Hugo's *Les Misérables*, Jean Valjean arrives at the door of Bishop Myriel — a broken man, nineteen years in prison for stealing bread....

Universallove

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The Player Who Obeyed by Not Swinging Back

In 1945, Branch Rickey sat across from Jackie Robinson in a Brooklyn office and made an extraordinary demand. Rickey wanted Robinson to break baseball's color...

Universalobedience

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The Blood That Remembers

In bone marrow transplantation, something remarkable happens that sounds more like theology than medicine. When a patient with leukemia receives a donor's healthy marrow, the...

Universalgrace

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Loved Into Being Real

In Margery Williams' beloved children's story *The Velveteen Rabbit*, there is a conversation between two nursery toys that contains more theology than most textbooks. The...

Universallove

254 words

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The Strength of Mended Bones

In 1892, German surgeon Julius Wolff published a discovery that still shapes orthopedic medicine today. He found that when a bone breaks and heals, the...

Universalrestoration

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The Open Window on Maple Street

Margaret Chen had kept the windows of her small bakery shut tight for three winters. Business was slow, flour prices climbed, and she calculated every...

Malachi 3:10Universal

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The Deeper Claws of Grace

In C.S. Lewis's *The Voyage of the Dawn Treader*, the boy Eustace Scrubb falls asleep on a dragon's hoard with greedy thoughts in his heart...

Universalrestoration

248 words

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The Music He Could Not Hear

In May of 1824, Ludwig van Beethoven stood before an orchestra in Vienna to conduct the premiere of his Ninth Symphony. He was almost entirely...

Universalhope

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When the Music Speaks What the Eyes Cannot See

In 1873, composer Phoebe Knapp sat down at her piano and played a new melody for her friend Fanny Crosby. "What does this tune say?"...

Universaltrust

248 words

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A Hymn Written Over the Waves

In November of 1873, Horatio Spafford stood at the railing of a ship crossing the Atlantic, staring down at cold, gray water. Somewhere beneath those...

Universalhope

235 words

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The Far, Far Better Thing

In Charles Dickens's *A Tale of Two Cities*, Sydney Carton is a man who has wasted his life. Brilliant but dissolute, he drinks too much,...

Universalsacrifice

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