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The Song Sung on the Steps

In 1939, Marian Anderson was one of the greatest contraltos the world had ever heard. Toscanini himself said a voice like hers comes along once...

Universalcourage

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The Seven Minutes of Trust

When NASA's Perseverance rover approached Mars in February 2021, engineers at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory faced a moment they called "seven minutes of terror." The...

Universalfaith

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When Peace Like a River Was Born from Ruin

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

Universalsacrifice

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The Search Party That Never Quit

On a frigid November night in 2013, four-year-old Jayden Morrison wandered away from his family's campsite near Lake Tahoe. His parents woke at dawn to...

Genesis 3:9-15, 20Universal

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The Song That Survived the Asylum Walls

In 1917, Frederick M. Lehman sat down to write a hymn about the boundless love of God. He composed two verses and a chorus, but...

Universallove

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The Songwriter Who Never Saw His Royalties

Rich Mullins wrote one of the most recognizable worship songs in modern church history. "Awesome God" became an anthem sung by millions, and his catalog...

Universalsacrifice

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The Song That Rose from the Sea

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 Music That Came From the Ruins

In the summer of 1741, George Frideric Handel was a broken man. The once-celebrated composer had suffered a stroke that paralyzed his right hand. His...

Universalhope

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A Heart Strangely Warmed

On the evening of May 24, 1738, a discouraged Anglican clergyman walked reluctantly to a small Moravian meeting on Aldersgate Street in London. John Wesley...

Mark 1:4-11Universal

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George Müller and the Unwavering Father of Lights

In nineteenth-century Bristol, England, George Müller opened his orphanages with nothing but prayer and an unshakable conviction about the character of God. One morning in...

James 1:17Universal

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The Surgeon's Unwashed Hands

In 1847, Hungarian physician Ignaz Semmelweis made a discovery that should have revolutionized medicine overnight. Working in a Vienna maternity ward, he noticed that women...

Universalhumility

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The Borrowed Cathedral

In 2019, when fire consumed the roof of Notre-Dame de Paris, the world watched in horror as eight centuries of craftsmanship buckled under the flames....

1 Corinthians 6:12-20Universal

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The Brain That Learns to Obey

In 1949, Canadian neuropsychologist Donald Hebb published a discovery that would reshape our understanding of the human brain. Hebb found that when neurons fire together...

Universalobedience

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The Blueprint God Never Asked For

In 2019, Habitat for Humanity volunteer Marcus Chen showed up at a build site in rural Georgia with his own architectural drawings. He'd spent weeks...

2 Samuel 7:4-5a, 12-14a, 16Universal

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The Boat That Moved As One

In the summer of 1936, nine young men from the University of Washington did what no one thought possible. They were loggers' sons, farm boys,...

Universalcommunity

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The Path Between the Lavender Rows

In 1987, Marcel Dupont inherited forty acres of lavender fields outside Valensole, in southern Provence. His grandmother, Colette, had walked those rows every morning for...

2 John 1:6Universal

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The Listening Booth at Abbey Road

In 1962, a fifteen-year-old named George Martin sat in the control room at Abbey Road Studios, learning to engineer sound. His mentor, Oscar Preuss, taught...

1 Samuel 3:1-10Universal

254 words

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The Light That Never Stopped Traveling

In December 2021, NASA launched the James Webb Space Telescope into orbit nearly a million miles from Earth. When its instruments finally opened, scientists wept...

Universalhope

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The Young Man Who Could Only Say Yes

In 1887, at a D.L. Moody revival meeting, the music director Daniel Towner watched as person after person stood to share polished testimonies of faith....

Universalobedience

246 words

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The Forest That Rose from the Ash

On May 18, 1980, Mount St. Helens erupted with the force of five hundred atomic bombs. Two hundred thirty square miles of old-growth forest were...

Universalrestoration

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The Covenant of Restraint

In August of 1945, Branch Rickey sat across from Jackie Robinson in the Dodgers' front office and asked a question that would change baseball forever....

Universalpatience

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The Blood That Becomes Your Own

In bone marrow transplantation, something happens that still astonishes physicians. When a patient with leukemia receives a donor's marrow, the transplanted stem cells don't merely...

Universalgrace

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The Telescope That Stared Into Nothing

In 1995, astronomer Robert Williams made one of the boldest decisions in the history of science. As director of the Space Telescope Science Institute, he...

Universaltrust

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Bonhoeffer and the Church That Split in Two

In May 1934, a young German pastor named Dietrich Bonhoeffer helped draft the Barmen Declaration, a document that drew a sharp line through the heart...

Luke 12:49-56Universal

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