In 1887, musician Daniel B. Towner was leading worship at a D.L. Moody evangelistic meeting when something unexpected happened during the testimony time. A young...

Universalobedience

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The Divine Editor

In 2020, Jennifer Doudna and Emmanuelle Charpentier won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for developing CRISPR-Cas9, a gene-editing technology that has revolutionized medicine. Scientists design...

Universalhealing

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Written in Who You Were Made to Be

In 2003, scientists completed the Human Genome Project — a thirteen-year effort to map every gene in human DNA. One of the most stunning discoveries...

Universalidentity

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The Pipe Organ That Played Without Power

In 1944, Allied bombs had reduced much of Coventry, England, to rubble. The medieval cathedral lay in ruins, its famous pipe organ nothing but twisted...

Zechariah 4:6Universal

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The Echo Nobody Was Looking For

In 1964, two radio astronomers at Bell Labs in New Jersey stumbled onto one of the greatest discoveries in the history of science — and...

Universalhumility

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What Your Body Already Knows About Letting Go

In 2001, psychologist Dr. Charlotte vanOyen Witvliet conducted a study at Hope College that revealed something remarkable about what unforgiveness does to the human body....

Universalforgiveness

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The Father's Two Hands

In the Hermitage Museum in St. Petersburg hangs one of Rembrandt's final paintings — *The Return of the Prodigal Son*, completed around 1668, near the...

Universalforgiveness

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The Darkest Patch of Sky

In 1995, astronomer Robert Williams made a decision that many of his colleagues called foolish. As director of the Space Telescope Science Institute, he pointed...

Universaltrust

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The Orchestra That Almost Wasn't

In 2019, the Chicago Symphony Orchestra nearly canceled its entire spring season. A labor dispute had divided musicians from management, and for weeks, silence filled...

1 Corinthians 12:3b-13Universal

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The Sculptor Who Was Told to Paint

In 1508, Michelangelo Buonarroti received a commission he did not want. Pope Julius II ordered him to paint the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel —...

Universalpurpose

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The Wisdom of Mending Bones

In the nineteenth century, German surgeon Julius Wolff discovered something remarkable about broken bones. He observed that a fracture does not simply snap back together....

Universalpatience

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Prone to Wander

In 1758, a twenty-two-year-old Englishman named Robert Robinson sat down and wrote one of the most beloved hymns in Christian history: *Come, Thou Fount of...

Universalforgiveness

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The God Who Wrote Repair Into Our Bones

Every single day, the DNA inside each of your cells suffers between ten thousand and one hundred thousand points of damage. Ultraviolet light, metabolic byproducts,...

Universalperseverance

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The Traitor Who Was Never Called One

In C.S. Lewis's *The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe*, Edmund Pevensie sells out his own family. Lured by enchanted Turkish Delight and the White...

Universalgrace

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The Bodyguard Who Became a Reformer

In the winter of 1546, the Scottish preacher George Wishart traveled from town to town proclaiming the gospel against fierce opposition. At his side walked...

2 Kings 2:1-2, 6-14Universal

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When the Music Follows the Maestro

In 1887, at a Dwight L. Moody evangelistic meeting in Brockton, Massachusetts, a young man stood during the testimony time. He was not eloquent. He...

Universalobedience

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The Hymn Born from an Unpacked Wagon

In 1772, a young English pastor named John Fawcett faced every minister's tempting crossroads. After years serving a tiny, impoverished congregation in Wainsgate, Yorkshire, he...

Universalcommunity

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The Cells That Set the Rhythm

In 1907, a young medical student named Martin Flack was examining a mole's heart in a small laboratory in Kent, England, when he discovered something...

Universalpurpose

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The Hymn Written Over the Ocean's Darkest Water

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

Universalhope

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The Song Written Over the Ocean's Deepest Wound

In 1873, Horatio Spafford put his four daughters on a steamship bound for England. He planned to follow shortly after. Nine days later, he received...

Universalfaith

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What Ten Days of Staring at Nothing Revealed

In December 1995, astronomer Robert Williams made a decision his colleagues thought was reckless. As director of the Space Telescope Science Institute, he pointed the...

Universalpatience

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