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The House on Pilings

When Hurricane Harvey slammed into Rockport, Texas, in August 2017, entire neighborhoods were flattened. Roofs peeled away like paper. Walls collapsed into heaps of soggy...

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The African Boy Who Taught the Professors to Pray

In 1891, a young Liberian man named Samuel Morris arrived at Taylor University in Fort Wayne, Indiana. He had no formal education. He owned no...

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The Sadhu Who Silenced the Oxford Dons

In 1920, Sadhu Sundar Singh — a former Sikh from Punjab who had converted to Christianity after a vision of Christ at age fifteen —...

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Corrie ten Boom and the Yielded Body

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....

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George Müller's Surrendered Appetite

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...

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The Bedrock Beneath the Brooklyn Bridge

When engineer Washington Roebling began constructing the Brooklyn Bridge in 1870, he knew everything depended on what no one would ever see — the foundation....

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The Stammering Sunday School Teacher Who Changed the World

In April of 1855, a Boston Sunday school teacher named Edward Kimball paced the sidewalk outside a shoe store on Court Street, nearly losing his...

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The Crooked House on Elm Street

In 2019, a couple in Waco, Texas bought a charming 1920s bungalow, eager to renovate. They poured forty thousand dollars into gorgeous hardwood floors, custom...

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George Washington Carver's 4 A.M. Appointment

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....

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The Cathedral That Refused to Cut Corners

In 2019, when fire tore through Notre-Dame de Paris, the world watched in horror as the spire collapsed and the roof caved in. But engineers...

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From Caterpillar Soup to Cathedral Wings

In 2019, biologist Andrei Sourakov at the Florida Museum of Natural History placed a monarch caterpillar inside a CT scanner to watch what happens during...

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Sojourner Truth and the Body That Belonged to God

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...

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The Ballet Dancer's Discipline

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...

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Olaudah Equiano and the Price Already Paid

In 1766, a young African man named Olaudah Equiano stood on a dock in Montserrat, West Indies, clutching forty pounds sterling — every coin he...

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The Antivenom

Every year at the Australian Reptile Park in Gosford, New South Wales, handlers carefully grip the heads of eastern brown snakes and taipans — two...

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The Fisherman's Grandson at the Marine Biology Conference

In 2019, a marine biology symposium in Monterey, California invited local fishermen to join a panel on coastal ecosystems. Among them sat Carlos, a third-generation...

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The Mechanic Who Heard What the Engineers Couldn't

In 2019, a team of aerospace engineers at a Boeing supplier in Wichita, Kansas, spent three weeks trying to diagnose a persistent vibration in a...

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The Sting That Killed the Stinger

Every beekeeper knows the peculiar vulnerability of the honeybee. Unlike wasps or hornets, a honeybee can only sting once. Its barbed stinger lodges deep in...

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The Clapham Circle and the End of the Slave Trade

In the late 1700s, a small group of committed Christians gathered regularly in a village just south of London called Clapham. They became known as...

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The Tinker Who Wrote What Oxford Could Not

John Bunyan mended pots and pans in the villages around Bedford, England. He had no university degree, no library of classical texts, no patron among...

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The Piano Tuner Who Heard What No One Else Could

Martin Backhaus spent forty-three years tuning pianos in Hamburg, Germany. He never performed on stage, never recorded an album, never earned a degree from the...

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The Blind Piano Tuner of Nashville

For thirty-two years, Gerald Morrow tuned pianos along Music Row in Nashville without ever reading a note of sheet music. Born blind, he never attended...

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1 Corinthians 13:4-7ChristocentricChristlove

Substitute "Christ" for "Love" - Christocentric (1 Corinthians 13:4-7)

Try reading 1 Corinthians 13 with "Christ" substituted for "love": "Christ is patient, Christ is kind. Christ does not envy, does not boast, is not proud..." It works perfectly—because Christ IS love incarnate. Now substitute YOUR name. Uncomfortable? That's the point.

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