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1 Corinthians Stories & Illustrations

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The Promise Keeper ofEli's Diner

Every morning for thirty-seven years, Eli Vasquez opened his diner on Magnolia Street in San Antonio at 5:15 a.m. sharp. Rain, ice storms, July heat...

1 Corinthians 1:3-9Universal

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Thirty-Three Lives and a Thousand Gifts

On August 5, 2010, the San José copper mine in Chile's Atacama Desert collapsed, trapping thirty-three miners 2,300 feet underground. The rescue that followed became...

1 Corinthians 12:12-31aUniversal

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Eric Liddell's Consecrated Stride

In 1924, Scottish sprinter Eric Liddell stunned the world by withdrawing from his best event at the Paris Olympics — the 100 meters — because...

1 Corinthians 6:12-20Universal

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The Barracks That Became a Sanctuary

In 1944, Corrie ten Boom and her sister Betsie huddled with other women in Barracks 28 at Ravensbrück concentration camp. The fleas were so thick...

1 Corinthians 3:9c-11, 16-17Universal

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The Seed Vault at the End of the World

Deep inside a mountain on the Norwegian island of Svalbard, 1,300 kilometers from the North Pole, sits a concrete vault holding over 1.2 million seed...

1 Corinthians 15:35-38, 42-50Universal

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Methuselah's Second Life

In 1963, archaeologists excavating the ancient fortress of Masada in Israel's Judean Desert uncovered a small clay jar containing date palm seeds. For four decades,...

1 Corinthians 15:35-38, 42-50Universal

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The Last Alarm at Station 12

On March 3, 2018, firefighter Captain Tom Royds pulled on his turnout gear for the final time at Kansas City's Station 12. After thirty-one years...

1 Corinthians 15:51-58Universal

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The Steinway in the Church Basement

In 2014, a small Baptist church in Macon, Georgia, discovered that the old piano sitting in their fellowship hall was a 1923 Steinway Model B,...

1 Corinthians 6:12-20Universal

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The First Man Up from the Depths

When the Phoenix capsule broke through the surface of the San José mine on October 13, 2010, Florencio Ávalos stepped out into the Chilean night...

1 Corinthians 15:20-27Universal

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A Bible Hidden Under a Dress

In September 1944, Corrie ten Boom and her sister Betsie arrived at Ravensbrück concentration camp in Germany. They had been arrested for hiding Jewish families...

1 Corinthians 1:3-9Universal

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The Cathedral Organ Restored

In 2014, the pipe organ at Notre-Dame de Laon in northern France sat silent. Centuries of dust, neglect, and amateur repairs had choked its 3,000...

1 Corinthians 6:12-20Universal

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The Satisfying Collapse of Notre-Dame's Scaffolding

On December 7, 2024, the world watched as the doors of Notre-Dame de Paris swung open for the first time in five years. The cathedral...

1 Corinthians 15:35-38, 42-50Universal

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Florence Nightingale's Lamp in the Darkness

When Florence Nightingale arrived at the British military hospital in Scutari, Turkey, in 1854, she found soldiers dying not from their wounds but from the...

1 Corinthians 6:12-20Universal

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Maximilian Kolbe and the Body Freely Given

In the summer of 1941, a prisoner escaped from Auschwitz. The SS guards selected ten men from Block 14 to die by starvation as punishment....

1 Corinthians 6:12-20Universal

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The Diver Beneath Winchester Cathedral

In 1905, engineers discovered that Winchester Cathedral, one of England's longest medieval churches, was slowly sinking into marshy Hampshire soil. Its ancient foundations, laid nearly...

1 Corinthians 3:9c-11, 16-17Universal

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Eric Liddell and the Body That Felt God's Pleasure

In 1924, Scottish sprinter Eric Liddell stood at the center of an Olympic controversy in Paris. He had withdrawn from his best event, the 100...

1 Corinthians 6:12-20Universal

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Death's Duel and the Dean of St. Paul's

In February 1631, John Donne stood in the pulpit of St. Paul's Cathedral, London, visibly wasting from stomach cancer, and preached what his friends called...

1 Corinthians 15:19-26Universal

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The Stradivarius in the Storage Unit

In 2014, a Stradivarius violin worth $5 million was stolen from concertmaster Frank Almond outside a Milwaukee concert hall. Police recovered it three weeks later...

1 Corinthians 6:12-20Universal

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Eric Liddell's Sacred Stride

In 1924, Scottish sprinter Eric Liddell arrived at the Paris Olympics as the favorite in the 100 meters. But when he learned the heats fell...

1 Corinthians 6:12-20Universal

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Eric Liddell's Holy Sprint

In 1924, Scottish sprinter Eric Liddell arrived at the Paris Olympics as the favorite in the 100 meters. Then he discovered the heats fell on...

1 Corinthians 6:12-20Universal

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A Story of Salvation - Story

Deborah was a woman of remarkable faith, a leader in a time when her people were struggling under oppression. One day, she found herself at a crossroads. The enemy was closing in, and despair lurked in every shadow. Yet, instead...

1 Corinthians 13:4-7Lutheran

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The Signal That Never Stopped

In 1977, NASA launched Voyager 1 into the unknown. Nearly fifty years later, engineers at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena still send commands to...

1 Corinthians 1:3-9Universal

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The Empty Chair at Margaret's Table

Every Thanksgiving for forty-one years, Margaret Ellison set a place for her husband, Carl, at the head of their dining table in Boone, North Carolina....

1 Corinthians 15:55-57Universal

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The Power of Gentleness - Story

In a small town, there lived an elderly woman named Ruth. She had a garden that was the envy of all, bursting with vibrant colors and fragrant blooms. Yet, Ruth’s secret to her garden's beauty wasn’t just her green thumb;...

1 Corinthians 13:4-7Black Church