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370 illustrations — Vivid stories and real-world analogies for sermon use
In our rapidly changing world, the concepts of diversity and inclusion can feel overwhelming, much like the fascinating but turbulent waters of the Sea of Galilee, which can shift from serene to stormy in a heartbeat. Yet, as people of...
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In June 2018, twelve boys and their soccer coach were trapped deep inside the Tham Luang cave in northern Thailand. Floodwaters had sealed every exit....
On the night of December 29, 1940, German incendiary bombs rained down on London in what firefighters called the Second Great Fire. Entire city blocks...
Gustavo Gutiérrez defined love as "effective solidarity" with the poor. "Love does not insist on its own way"—this applies to nations insisting on policies that harm the vulnerable. "Love is not arrogant"—neither are liberation movements that honor the dignity of those they serve.
On April 15, 2019, the world watched in horror as flames consumed the roof of Notre-Dame de Paris. Eight hundred years of history disappeared into...
On April 9, 1945, Dietrich Bonhoeffer stood in the gray dawn at Flossenburg concentration camp. The Nazi regime had sentenced him to death for his...
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...
When Marcus Thompson took over the music program at Riverside High in Memphis, half the instrument lockers were empty. Most students came from families that...
On December 22, 1899, Dwight L. Moody lay in his bedroom in Northfield, Massachusetts, his body failing after weeks of declining health. The man who...
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...
On November 9, 1989, East Berliner Angelika Wachs stood in a crowd pressing toward the Bornholmer Strasse checkpoint. For twenty-eight years, the Berlin Wall had...
1 Corinthians 13 describes covenant love—love that binds despite circumstances.
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 2012, cellist Alisa Weilerstein received a loan that changed her performing life — a 1731 Stradivarius cello known as the "Isserlis" Stradivarius, valued at...
On December 22, 1899, the great evangelist Dwight L. Moody lay dying in his Northfield, Massachusetts home. His family gathered close, grief heavy in the...
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 1851, Sojourner Truth stood before a crowd in Akron, Ohio, and bared her arm. The muscle was hard and knotted from years of forced...
On the night of November 23, 1654, Blaise Pascal — one of the most brilliant mathematicians in France — had an encounter he could barely...
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 2017, crews from two countries began building the Pelješac Bridge in Croatia, a stunning cable-stayed span connecting the mainland to the Pelješac peninsula across...
In September 2017, three days before Hurricane Irma slammed into Naples, Florida, Maria Gutierrez found an envelope in her mailbox from her estranged father in...
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 April 9, 1945, in the gray dawn at Flossenbürg concentration camp, Lutheran pastor Dietrich Bonhoeffer knelt in prayer before being led to the gallows....
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...