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45 illustrations for sermon preparation
When fire consumed Notre-Dame de Paris on April 15, 2019, the world watched in horror as the iconic spire collapsed into the burning nave. But...
In 2019, a thirty-two-year-old man named Derek Mitchell from Memphis received a kidney from a twenty-four-year-old woman who had died in a car accident. Before...
In the winter of 1943, Corrie ten Boom's modest home in Haarlem, Holland, became something extraordinary. Behind a false wall in her bedroom, a cramped...
In 2019, Maria Gonzalez and her three children moved into a Habitat for Humanity home on Millbrook Lane in Charlotte, North Carolina. Over four hundred...
In 1943, Olympic miler Louis Zamperini crashed into the Pacific Ocean aboard a failing bomber. He survived forty-seven days on a life raft, then endured...
In the summer of 386 AD, a thirty-one-year-old rhetoric professor sat weeping in a Milan garden. Augustine of Hippo had spent years enslaved to desires...
In 2019, a thirty-one-year-old teacher named Marcus Reed received a double lung transplant at Duke University Hospital. The donor was a nineteen-year-old college sophomore who...
In 2019, a young couple in Brooklyn purchased a neglected brownstone on Halsey Street in Bedford-Stuyvesant for a price that stretched every dollar they had....
In 2019, conservator Eliane Dotson spent fourteen months restoring Artemisia Gentileschi's seventeenth-century painting at the National Gallery in London. Every morning she arrived before dawn,...
In Napa Valley, master winemaker André Tchelistcheff spent decades teaching a principle that transformed California wine. A barrel, he insisted, isn't just a container —...
Every summer, the outfitter at Lake Windermere in British Columbia rents cedar-strip canoes to tourists. Before anyone touches a paddle, old Tom Macready walks each...
In 1766, a young African man named Olaudah Equiano stood on a dock in Montserrat, West Indies, clutching forty pounds sterling — every coin he...
When Marco Alvarez moved into the small bungalow on Sycamore Street in Tucson, he treated it like every other rental. He let the faucet drip...
In 1825, a young German student named George Müller was living recklessly in Halle, drinking heavily, running up debts, and treating his body as a...
Every morning at four o'clock, long before the Alabama sun touched the fields of Tuskegee Institute, George Washington Carver rose and walked into the woods....
Misty Copeland, the first African American principal dancer at American Ballet Theatre, once described how she guards her body with an almost sacred attentiveness. She...
In 1826, Isabella Baumfree walked away from the Dumont estate in Ulster County, New York, carrying her infant daughter and nothing else. She had been...
George Washington Carver was born into slavery in Missouri around 1864, his infant body literally valued at three hundred dollars — the price Moses Carver...
In 1944, Corrie ten Boom stood inside the delousing shower at Ravensbrück concentration camp, stripped bare alongside her sister Betsie and hundreds of other women....
In 2018, a nineteen-year-old college student named Jordan Rice received a new heart after three years on the transplant waiting list at Emory University Hospital...
In the winter of 1943, Dietrich Bonhoeffer sat in a cramped cell at Tegel military prison in Berlin. Guards expected the imprisoned pastor to wither...
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