Loading...
Search, filter, and discover the perfect illustration for your sermon
Free to browse · Sign up free to unlock most illustrations · Premium ($9.95/mo) for the full library of 50,000+ illustrations
By 1944, Eric Liddell — the Scottish sprinter who electrified the world by winning gold in the 400 meters at the 1924 Paris Olympics —...
On July 4, 1939, sixty-one thousand fans packed Yankee Stadium to honor a man who could barely hold a baseball. Lou Gehrig, the "Iron Horse"...
On November 22, 1873, the French steamship *Ville du Havre* collided with the iron-hulled *Loch Earn* in the cold waters of the mid-Atlantic. The ship...
In the autumn of 1914, as the Western Front devoured young men by the thousands, Marie Curie — already the only person to hold Nobel...
In August 1936, the Olympic Stadium in Berlin was packed as Adolf Hitler watched from his private box. On the field below, two long jumpers...
In 1937, as the German church fractured under Nazi pressure, a young Lutheran pastor named Dietrich Bonhoeffer sat in the illegal Confessing Church seminary at...
On February 18, 1943, Sophie Scholl climbed the marble staircase of the University of Munich's main hall carrying a suitcase full of leaflets. She was...
In the autumn of 1943, a slim Polish social worker named Irena Sendler walked through the gates of the Warsaw Ghetto carrying a carpenter's toolbox....
On Easter Sunday, April 9, 1939, Marian Anderson stood before the Lincoln Memorial and opened her mouth to sing. Months earlier, the Daughters of the...
In the summer of 1940, hundreds of Jewish refugees crowded outside the Japanese consulate in Kaunas, Lithuania, desperate for transit visas that could carry them...
On June 12, 1939, Dietrich Bonhoeffer stepped off a ship onto the docks of New York City, safely an ocean away from Hitler's Germany. Friends...
On the evening of May 7, 1824, Ludwig van Beethoven stood on the stage of Vienna's Theater am Kärntnertor, his back to a packed house....
On April 15, 1947, Jackie Robinson walked onto Ebbets Field in Brooklyn, New York, wearing a Dodgers uniform with the number 42 on his back....
On a sweltering July day in 1941, ten men stood trembling in the yard of Auschwitz. A prisoner had escaped, and deputy commandant Karl Fritzsch...
On August 9, 1943, Franz Jägerstätter was executed by guillotine at Brandenburg-Görden Prison in Germany. His crime was simple: he refused to swear an oath...
In 1723, Johann Sebastian Bach arrived in Leipzig, Germany, to take up his post as Thomaskantor — director of music at St. Thomas Church. He...
In the spring of 1508, Michelangelo Buonarroti stood before Pope Julius II in Rome and protested. He was a sculptor, not a painter. His hands...
In the winter of 1748, Johann Sebastian Bach sat at his desk in Leipzig, his eyesight failing, his hands stiffened by age. He was sixty-three...
On February 23, 1944, fourteen-year-old Anne Frank climbed to the attic of 263 Prinsengracht in Amsterdam and peered out through the window. For nineteen months,...
In the spring of 1940, Gladys Aylward — a former parlour maid from Edmonton, London, barely five feet tall — faced an impossible task. With...
On June 12, 1942, a thirteen-year-old girl in Amsterdam received a red-and-white checkered autograph book for her birthday. Within weeks, Anne Frank and her family...
On the morning of February 18, 1943, Sophie Scholl and her brother Hans carried a suitcase through the corridors of the University of Munich. Inside...
In 1873, composer Phoebe Knapp sat at her piano in Brooklyn, New York, and played a new melody for her friend Fanny Crosby. "What does...
In the spring of 1940, Japanese forces were closing in on Yangcheng in China's Shanxi Province. Gladys Aylward — a former London parlour maid turned...