Illustrations from 1 Corinthians

1 Corinthians 12:1-11Universal

The Refugees of Herrnhut

In 1722, a ragged band of Moravian refugees stumbled onto the estate of Count Nikolaus von Zinzendorf in Saxony. They had nothing but the clothes...

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Philadelphia: Love That Does Not Rejoice in Injustice - Progressive (1 Corinthians 13)

In the gripping drama *Philadelphia*, we witness a profound transformation in the life of Joe Miller, a lawyer whose initial prejudice stands in stark contrast to the love he eventually embodies. Picture Joe, played by a masterful Denzel Washington, pacing...

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The Borrowed Canoe at Lake Windermere

Every summer, the outfitter at Lake Windermere in British Columbia rents cedar-strip canoes to tourists. Before anyone touches a paddle, old Tom Macready walks each...

The Deed in the Dresser Drawer

When Marco Alvarez moved into the small bungalow on Sycamore Street in Tucson, he treated it like every other rental. He let the faucet drip...

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 —...

1 Corinthians 1:3-9Universal

The Bridge Builder Who Never Abandons a Project

In 2011, engineer Linda Figg stood before skeptics in St. Petersburg, Florida, as construction began on the new Sunshine Skyway Bridge approach. Midway through the...

The Heart That Beat Twice

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...

1 Corinthians 15:55-57Universal

The Cure Made from the Venom

At the Australian Reptile Park north of Sydney, handlers milk eastern brown snakes — the second most venomous land snake on earth — by pressing...

The Codebreaker Who Couldn't Explain How She Knew

During World War II, a young clerk named Mavis Lever arrived at Bletchley Park with no formal training in cryptography. The seasoned mathematicians around her...

George Washington Carver and the Laboratory of Devotion

George Washington Carver was born into slavery in Missouri around 1864, his infant body literally valued at three hundred dollars — the price Moses Carver...

The Sommelier Who Could Not Read

In 2012, a documentary called *Somm* followed four candidates preparing for the Master Sommelier exam — one of the hardest tests in the world, with...

1 Corinthians 15:55-57Universal

The Honeybee's Final Sting

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...

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

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...

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

The Tower That Began to Lean

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...

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....

The Mechanic Who Could Listen to Engines

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...

1 Corinthians 15:20-27Universal

The First Satisfying Bite

On a crisp September morning in Yakima Valley, Washington, orchard foreman Miguel Ruiz walks between rows of Honeycrisp apple trees and plucks a single fruit...

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...

1 Corinthians 13:1-13Universal

The Soup That Outlasted the Sermon

When Dorothy Henderson died at ninety-three in Macon, Georgia, nearly four hundred people filled the sanctuary at First Baptist. The pastor admitted he was stunned....

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...

The Sommelier and the Child at the Wedding

At a vineyard wedding in Napa Valley in 2019, master sommelier Carlton McCoy was explaining the wine to guests — describing notes of blackcurrant, cedar,...

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

The Monarch's Last Crawl

Every September, researchers at the University of Kansas tag thousands of monarch butterflies migrating through the Great Plains. Dr. Orley "Chip" Taylor has led this...

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...