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370 illustrations — Vivid stories and real-world analogies for sermon use
In 2013, mountaineer Conrad Anker led a team up the treacherous southwest face of Lunag Ri in the Himalayas. The route had never been completed....
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In 2019, a couple in Charlotte, North Carolina, hired a contractor to open up their cramped kitchen. They wanted the wall between the kitchen and...
On November 23, 1654, the brilliant French mathematician Blaise Pascal — a man who had already revolutionized geometry, invented the mechanical calculator, and dazzled the...
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 May 1796, Edward Jenner made a daring wager against humanity's deadliest scourge. In a cottage garden in Berkeley, Gloucestershire, he took fluid from a...
On April 12, 1955, scientists at the University of Michigan announced that Jonas Salk's polio vaccine was "safe, effective, and potent." Within minutes, church bells...
When astronaut Scott Kelly began his 340-day mission aboard the International Space Station in 2015, he didn't drift through space alone. Every day, hundreds of...
In 1796, a country physician named Edward Jenner in Gloucestershire, England, did something no one had ever done — he deliberately challenged humanity's most relentless...
In 2019, a beekeeper named Sarah Mapelli stood on a stage in Portland, Oregon, with twenty thousand honeybees crawling across her bare skin. The audience...
In February 1942, British commanders in Singapore believed their position was unassailable. They called it "the Gibraltar of the East." Over 80,000 troops were garrisoned...
In 1660, a traveling mender of pots and pans sat in a cold Bedford jail cell, convicted for preaching without a license. John Bunyan had...
In 2016, residents of San Francisco's Millennium Tower noticed something unsettling — their doors wouldn't close properly. Engineers discovered the 58-story luxury high-rise had sunk...
In 1888, Lilias Trotter stood at a crossroads in London. John Ruskin, the most influential art critic in England, had told her she could become...
At the Australian Reptile Park north of Sydney, handlers milk eastern brown snakes — the second most venomous land snake on earth — by pressing...
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...
On a Friday evening in Los Angeles, a line of visitors snakes up the steps of Griffith Observatory to peer through the Zeiss telescope. A...
In 1987, a Toyota dealership in Lexington, Kentucky hired a mechanic named Earl Combs who had no formal training. He had never attended a single...
In 1173, builders in Pisa, Italy, broke ground on a magnificent bell tower for their cathedral. The white marble structure was designed to stand nearly...
Every Tuesday for eleven years, a letter arrived at Margaret Chen's apartment in Seattle — handwritten on cream stationery, postmarked from Topeka, Kansas. Her college...
When Christopher Wren began rebuilding St. Paul's Cathedral after the Great Fire of London in 1666, he faced a decision that would determine the fate...
Margaret Chen had been terrified of bees since she was seven years old — the summer a yellow jacket crawled into her Kool-Aid and introduced...
When Sundar Singh arrived at Cambridge University in 1920, the faculty expected little. Here was an Indian sadhu in a saffron robe and bare feet...
In 1854, a nineteen-year-old with no seminary degree and no formal ordination stepped into the pulpit of London's New Park Street Chapel. The deacons who...
When a honeybee drives its barbed stinger into human skin, something remarkable happens. The stinger tears away from the bee's abdomen, taking with it a...