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370 illustrations — Vivid stories and real-world analogies for sermon use
In 2019, Dr. William Matsui at Johns Hopkins watched a patient named Gerald, a retired Baltimore bus driver, ring the brass bell mounted on the...
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In 2019, the Chicago Symphony Orchestra nearly canceled its entire spring season. A labor dispute had divided musicians from management, and for weeks, silence filled...
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...
On a Friday night in March 2023, a five-car pileup on I-75 outside Atlanta sent eleven patients flooding into Grady Memorial Hospital's trauma bay within...
On August 13, 1727, the small community of Herrnhut in Saxony was fracturing. Czech Hussites, German Pietists, and Reformed exiles — all living on Count...
In 1770, George Whitefield died in Newburyport, Massachusetts, and thousands mourned the greatest evangelist of the age. Back in London, someone asked John Wesley —...
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 1722, a ragged band of Protestant refugees from Moravia arrived on the estate of Count Nicholas von Zinzendorf in Saxony. They had nothing —...
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 1637, the Dutch city of Haarlem was gripped by tulip fever. Fortunes changed hands over small, wrinkled bulbs that looked like dried onions. A...
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 community orchestra in Chattanooga, Tennessee nearly dissolved. Attendance was thin, morale was low, and the musicians — mostly amateurs who squeezed rehearsals...
Margaret Ellison was eighty-three when the hospice nurse told her family to gather. Her lungs were failing. Her body was shutting down. But when her...
In 1770, George Whitefield died in Newburyport, Massachusetts, and the question arose: who would preach his funeral sermon in London? The answer surprised nearly everyone....
In 1787, a twenty-seven-year-old member of Parliament named William Wilberforce sat at an oak desk in his London home and scribbled five words in his...
In 1525, William Tyndale hunched over a desk in Cologne, Germany, translating the New Testament into English for the first time from the original Greek....
In 1727, a small community of Moravian refugees living on Count Nikolaus von Zinzendorf's estate in Herrnhut, Germany, was fracturing. Czechs, Germans, and Poles —...
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...
When engineer Washington Roebling began constructing the Brooklyn Bridge in 1870, the most critical work happened where no one could see it. Workers descended into...
Walk through the old churchyard at First Presbyterian in Elizabeth, New Jersey, where tombstones date back to 1664. Notice something peculiar: nearly every grave faces...
In the spring of 1943, Dietrich Bonhoeffer was arrested by the Gestapo and locked in Tegel military prison in Berlin. He had every reason to...
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 1848, workers broke ground on the Washington Monument in the nation's capital. The marble obelisk rose steadily to 156 feet before political turmoil and...
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...