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41 illustrations — Vivid stories and real-world analogies for sermon use
In 2018, a wildfire swept through Paradise, California, reducing nearly 19,000 structures to ash. When residents returned to sift through the rubble, they found an...
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...
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 1730, French authorities locked nineteen-year-old Marie Durand in the Tower of Constance in Aigues-Mortes for one crime: she was a Huguenot who refused to...
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....
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 2019, a house fire swept through the Martinez family home in Sacramento, California. Insurance covered the structure, the furniture, the electronics — everything with...
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 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 August 1949, a crew of fifteen smokejumpers parachuted into Mann Gulch, Montana, to fight what seemed like a routine wildfire. But the blaze turned...
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...
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....
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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