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27 illustrations for sermon preparation
On the night of November 23, 1654, Blaise Pascal — one of the most brilliant minds in Europe, inventor of the mechanical calculator, pioneer of...
In the autumn of 1739, Benjamin Franklin walked through the streets of Philadelphia to hear George Whitefield preach. Franklin was arguably the most brilliant mind...
On the night of November 23, 1654, Blaise Pascal — one of the most brilliant minds in Europe, inventor of the mechanical calculator, pioneer of...
On the night of November 23, 1654, Blaise Pascal — one of the most brilliant mathematicians in France — had an encounter he could barely...
In 2014, a janitorial supervisor named Hector Vega worked the overnight shift at a hospital in Los Angeles. He had no medical degree, no letters...
In 1993, a janitor named James Gates Sr. sat in the back pew of a small Baptist church in Baltimore while his son, a brilliant...
On November 23, 1654, the brilliant French mathematician Blaise Pascal — a man who had already revolutionized geometry, invented the mechanical calculator, and dazzled the...
In 1660, a traveling mender of pots and pans sat in a cold Bedford jail cell, convicted for preaching without a license. John Bunyan had...
In 2019, the Houston Museum of Fine Arts hosted an exhibition called *Quilts and Color*. Among the professionally curated pieces hung one quilt stitched by...
Dwight L. Moody never graduated from the fifth grade. When he first applied to join Mount Vernon Congregational Church in Boston in 1855, the deacons...
On a Friday evening in Los Angeles, a line of visitors snakes up the steps of Griffith Observatory to peer through the Zeiss telescope. A...
In 2019, a team of aerospace engineers at a Boeing supplier in Wichita, Kansas, spent three weeks trying to diagnose a persistent vibration in a...
During World War II, a young clerk named Mavis Lever arrived at Bletchley Park with no formal training in cryptography. The seasoned mathematicians around her...
In 1987, a Toyota dealership in Lexington, Kentucky hired a mechanic named Earl Combs who had no formal training. He had never attended a single...
In April of 1855, a Boston Sunday school teacher named Edward Kimball paced the sidewalk outside a shoe store on Court Street, nearly losing his...
In 2012, a documentary called *Somm* followed four candidates preparing for the Master Sommelier exam — one of the hardest tests in the world, with...
In 1891, a young Liberian man named Samuel Morris arrived at Taylor University in Fort Wayne, Indiana. He had no formal education. He owned no...
In 2019, a marine biology symposium in Monterey, California invited local fishermen to join a panel on coastal ecosystems. Among them sat Carlos, a third-generation...
When Sundar Singh arrived at Cambridge University in 1920, the faculty expected little. Here was an Indian sadhu in a saffron robe and bare feet...
In 2014, Yale University hosted a panel on suffering and meaning. Three philosophers debated theodicy with precision — quoting Leibniz, referencing modal logic, parsing the...
At a vineyard wedding in Napa Valley in 2019, master sommelier Carlton McCoy was explaining the wine to guests — describing notes of blackcurrant, cedar,...
In 1930, the China Inland Mission rejected Gladys Aylward. She was a parlor maid from Edmonton, north London — no university degree, no seminary training,...
Veteran nurses at Johns Hopkins call it "the feeling." Maria Gonzalez, a thirty-year ICU nurse in Baltimore, could walk past a patient's room and stop...
In 1920, Sadhu Sundar Singh — a former Sikh from Punjab who had converted to Christianity after a vision of Christ at age fifteen —...
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