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The Radio Dial Between Stations

In 2019, a retired teacher named Margaret Chen sat in her kitchen in Portland, Oregon, fiddling with her late husband's old shortwave radio. She twisted...

1 Samuel 3:1-10Universal

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The Hundred-Year Watch at Herrnhut

On August 27, 1727, twenty-four men and twenty-four women in the small German village of Herrnhut made a quiet commitment. They divided the day into...

Psalm 121Universal

230 words

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From Ruin to the Hallelujah Chorus

By the summer of 1741, George Frideric Handel was a broken man. The composer who had once dazzled the courts of Europe now faced mounting...

Universaltransformation

241 words

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Twenty-One Names on a Libyan Shore

On February 15, 2015, twenty-one men knelt on a beach near Sirte, Libya, wearing orange jumpsuits, facing the Mediterranean Sea. They were Coptic Christians —...

Revelation 7:2-4, 9-14Universal

241 words

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Nine Days in the Dark

On July 2, 2018, British diver John Volanthen surfaced inside a flooded chamber deep within Tham Luang cave in northern Thailand. For nine days, the...

Matthew 28:1-10Universal

258 words

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The Ledger of Ten Thousand Answers

George Müller of Bristol kept meticulous records. Over sixty years of caring for more than ten thousand orphans in Victorian England, he documented over fifty...

James 1:17Universal

224 words

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The Old Man Who Wouldn't Stop Bearing Fruit

George Müller of Bristol had already lived what most would consider a full life. By age seventy, he had housed over ten thousand orphans, built...

Psalm 92:1-4, 12-15Universal

242 words

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Corrie ten Boom's Hidden Room of Mercy

In February 1944, the Gestapo raided the Beje, the narrow Dutch watchmaker's house where Corrie ten Boom and her family had been hiding Jewish refugees....

Psalm 25:1-10Universal

240 words

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The Boys Who Were Carried Through the Water

In June 2018, twelve boys and their soccer coach crawled into the Tham Luang cave in northern Thailand. Monsoon rains flooded the passages behind them....

1 Peter 3:18-22Universal

230 words

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The Beautiful Feet of Galveston

On June 19, 1865, Union Major General Gordon Granger stepped onto the balcony of Ashton Villa in Galveston, Texas, and read aloud General Order No....

Isaiah 52:7-10Universal

231 words

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The Airport Gate That Became a Church

In December 2022, a massive winter storm stranded over four thousand travelers at Denver International Airport for three days. Strangers who would never have spoken...

2 Corinthians 13:11-13Universal

247 words

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The Two Trees on Maple Street

In 2019, the city of Detroit planted two identical red maple saplings on either side of Woodward Avenue as part of an urban regreening project....

Jeremiah 17:5-10Universal

246 words

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The Hidden Painting Beneath

In the language of art, there is a word that belongs equally in a sanctuary: *pentimento*. It comes from the Italian *pentirsi* — to repent....

Universalforgiveness

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William Wilberforce and the Voice He Mistook for Ambition

In the autumn of 1785, twenty-six-year-old William Wilberforce sat across from John Newton in a small parlor on Charles Square in London. Wilberforce had been...

1 Samuel 3:1-10Universal

245 words

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She Gave Away the Jewelry

Frances Ridley Havergal wrote the hymn *Take My Life and Let It Be* in February 1874, after visiting a house full of friends and family,...

Universalobedience

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The King Who Left His Horse Behind

In 333 BC, Alexander the Great rode into Jerusalem on a warhorse draped in purple, his cavalry stretching behind him like a river of bronze....

Zechariah 9:9Universal

234 words

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The Soup Kitchen That Wouldn't Run Out

In 2012, a church in Moore, Oklahoma — a small congregation of maybe forty people — opened its doors the morning after an EF5 tornado...

Luke 9:11b-17Universal

251 words

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The Garden That Refused to Stay Dead

In March 2012, landscape architect Emily Sullivan walked through the grounds of a Joplin, Missouri, church that had been leveled by an EF5 tornado ten...

Romans 8:6-11Universal

231 words

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The Open Door at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue

In 1963, photographer Stanley Tretick captured one of the most iconic images in White House history. Two-year-old John F. Kennedy Jr. is crawling through the...

Hebrews 4:16Universal

243 words

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Clarence Jordan's Sermon in the Soil

In 1942, Clarence Jordan — a Greek scholar with a doctorate in New Testament — did something his colleagues found baffling. He left a promising...

Matthew 5:1-12aUniversal

226 words

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Finding the Rhythm Together

When cardiac researchers isolate individual heart muscle cells and place them in a laboratory dish, something remarkable happens. Each cardiomyocyte contracts on its own, beating...

Universalcommunity

239 words

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The Weight She Finally Set Down

For twenty-three years, Maria Gutierrez carried a sealed envelope in the bottom of her jewelry box. Inside was a letter from her birth mother —...

John 8:32Universal

262 words

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The Strangled Scholar Who Set England on Fire

In October 1536, William Tyndale was led from his prison cell in Vilvoorde Castle near Brussels to a stake surrounded by bundled sticks. His crime...

Romans 1:16Universal

242 words

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The Zinc Spark

In 2016, a team of researchers at Northwestern University led by Teresa Woodruff captured something extraordinary on camera. At the exact moment a human egg...

Genesis 1:1-3Universal

241 words