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370 illustrations — Vivid stories and real-world analogies for sermon use
In 2007, a British runner named David Rogers lined up for the London Marathon brimming with confidence. He had trained for months, finished two previous...
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On February 23, 1945, a small group of Marines climbed Mount Suribachi on the island of Iwo Jima and raised the American flag at its...
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 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 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 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....
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...
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 2015, the city council of Greenville, South Carolina faced a problem. The Swamp Rabbit Trail — a beloved walking and biking path — needed...
When Dr. Sarah Chen retired from pediatric oncology at St. Jude Children's Research Hospital in Memphis after thirty-one years, her colleagues expected a ceremony full...
In 2019, Maria Gonzalez started a small food pantry out of her garage in East San Antonio. She hauled donated cans in her minivan, sorted...
When Johann Sebastian Bach died in Leipzig on July 28, 1750, the world barely noticed. The city council's official response was to complain about the...
Every Sunday morning at Grace Community Church in Tupelo, Mississippi, eighty-three-year-old Martha Jenkins arrives early to bake communion bread. She has done this for thirty-seven...
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....
During the 900-day Siege of Leningrad, twelve scientists at the Vavilov Institute of Plant Genetic Resources starved to death — surrounded by tons of edible...
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...
On April 9, 1945, just two weeks before Allied forces liberated Flossenbürg concentration camp, Dietrich Bonhoeffer was led to the gallows. The camp doctor who...
When Frances Jane Crosby lost her sight at six weeks old due to a doctor's tragic error, no one in her small New York village...
In San Jose, California, the Winchester Mystery House sprawls across six acres — 161 rooms, 40 bedrooms, staircases that climb straight into the ceiling, and...
In 1928, a young pianist named Ervin Nyiregyházi dazzled New York critics with his astonishing technique. He could play Liszt with a ferocity that left...
In Cape Town, South Africa, tourists file through the narrow corridors of Robben Island's maximum-security block. They stand before Cell 5, where Nelson Mandela spent...
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 1722, a ragged band of Protestant refugees stumbled onto the estate of Count Nikolaus von Zinzendorf in Saxony, Germany. They were Moravians, Lutherans, Calvinists,...
In Cremona, Italy, a small workshop still builds violins by hand, following methods passed down since the days of Stradivari. When master luthier Stefano Conia...