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45 illustrations for sermon preparation
When Sarah Thornton agreed to house-sit a seventeenth-century cottage on the shores of Lake Windermere in England's Lake District, the owner left just one instruction:...
In 1924, Scottish sprinter Eric Liddell arrived at the Paris Olympics as the favorite in the 100 meters. Then he discovered the heats fell on...
In the summer of 1941, a prisoner escaped from Auschwitz. The SS guards selected ten men from Block 14 to die by starvation as punishment....
In 2014, a Stradivarius violin worth $5 million was stolen from concertmaster Frank Almond outside a Milwaukee concert hall. Police recovered it three weeks later...
In 1924, Scottish sprinter Eric Liddell stood at the center of an Olympic controversy in Paris. He had withdrawn from his best event, the 100...
When Florence Nightingale arrived at the British military hospital in Scutari, Turkey, in 1854, she found soldiers dying not from their wounds but from the...
In 1924, Scottish sprinter Eric Liddell stunned the world by withdrawing from his best event at the Paris Olympics — the 100 meters — because...
In 2014, a small Baptist church in Macon, Georgia, discovered that the old piano sitting in their fellowship hall was a 1923 Steinway Model B,...
In 2014, the pipe organ at Notre-Dame de Laon in northern France sat silent. Centuries of dust, neglect, and amateur repairs had choked its 3,000...
In 1924, Scottish sprinter Eric Liddell arrived at the Paris Olympics as the favorite in the 100 meters. But when he learned the heats fell...
John Newton spent years on the West African coast buying and selling human bodies. He knew exactly what it meant to purchase a person —...
In 1851, Sojourner Truth stood before a crowd in Akron, Ohio, and bared her arm. The muscle was hard and knotted from years of forced...
In 2012, cellist Alisa Weilerstein received a loan that changed her performing life — a 1731 Stradivarius cello known as the "Isserlis" Stradivarius, valued at...
In 1939, Dietrich Bonhoeffer held a one-way ticket to safety. Friends in America had arranged a teaching position at Union Theological Seminary in New York,...
In the summer of 1941, a prisoner escaped from Auschwitz. The SS guards, following brutal protocol, selected ten men from Block 14 to die by...
In 2006, a music teacher in the Spokane, Washington area brought an old violin to an appraiser. It had been sitting in a closet for...
In 2018, Desiree Linden became the first American woman in 33 years to win the Boston Marathon. What fewer people remember is that she almost...
In 2017, the owners of a crumbling building at 326 Beale Street in Memphis received an unexpected letter. The Tennessee Historical Commission had designated their...
In 2019, a young cellist named Sheku Kanneh-Mason was loaned a 1700 Matteo Goffriller cello worth over two million dollars. The instrument wasn't his. It...
In 2019, a couple named David and Maria Hernandez purchased a neglected farmhouse along Route 7 in Bennington, Vermont. The previous owners had used it...
In 2019, Marcus Rivera of San Antonio nearly died waiting for a kidney. When his coworker, a single mother named Dana Wilkins, quietly got tested...
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....
In 1889, Pandita Ramabai opened the doors of Sharada Sadan in Pune, India, a refuge for child widows and girls rescued from temple prostitution. Ramabai,...
In 2019, Misty Copeland sat across from a reporter who asked why she had turned down a seven-figure endorsement deal from a major liquor brand....
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