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41 illustrations — Vivid stories and real-world analogies for sermon use
On March 10, 1748, a violent storm nearly swallowed the slave trading ship Greyhound in the North Atlantic. John Newton, a twenty-two-year-old sailor who had...
On August 29, 2017, Diane Morrison stood chest-deep in floodwater inside her Houston home as Hurricane Harvey refused to stop. For three days the rain...
In July 1941, a prisoner escaped from Auschwitz. As punishment, the SS selected ten men from Block 14 to die by starvation in an underground...
In 2019, a woman named Elena Vasquez was cleaning out her late grandmother's apartment in San Antonio when she found a faded envelope tucked behind...
In 2019, a house fire swept through the Martinez family home in Sacramento, California. Insurance covered the structure, the furniture, the electronics — everything with...
On a bitter January morning in 1830, George Wilson sat in a Philadelphia jail cell awaiting execution for robbery and endangering a mail carrier's life....
On April 5, 1943, the Gestapo arrested Dietrich Bonhoeffer at his parents' home in Berlin. For two years, the Lutheran pastor lived in Tegel military...
In June 2018, twelve boys and their soccer coach crawled into Tham Luang cave in northern Thailand. Monsoon rains flooded the passages behind them, trapping...
In April 1916, Sir Ernest Shackleton stood on the frozen shore of Elephant Island, Antarctica, facing an impossible choice. Twenty-two of his men were stranded,...
In 2018, Thai Navy SEAL Saman Kunan volunteered for the rescue mission at Tham Luang cave in northern Thailand. Twelve boys and their soccer coach...
In June 2018, twelve boys and their soccer coach crawled into the Tham Luang cave in northern Thailand. Monsoon rains flooded the passages behind them....
In June 2016, the Brazos River in Texas swelled beyond anything residents of Simonton had seen in over a century. Floodwaters swallowed roads, turned neighborhoods...
When the 2018 Camp Fire swept through Paradise, California, Dave and Kathy Locatelli lost everything. Their home of twenty-three years was reduced to a concrete...
In August 1949, a crew of fifteen smokejumpers parachuted into Mann Gulch, Montana, to fight what seemed like a routine wildfire. But the blaze turned...
Maria Hernandez sat in a hospital cardiac unit for eleven days while her husband, Ernesto, waited for a donor heart. She later said the worst...
For twelve years, John Bunyan sat in Bedford Jail. His crime was preaching without a license. The authorities offered him freedom repeatedly — all he...
In the year 203 AD, a young noblewoman named Vibia Perpetua sat in a Carthaginian prison, nursing her infant son through iron bars. She was...
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