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99 illustrations for sermon preparation
In 1924, Eric Liddell was the most famous athlete in Scotland. After his Olympic gold medal in Paris, universities and speaking platforms competed for his...
On a spring afternoon in 1855, eighteen-year-old Dwight Moody stood behind the counter of Holton's shoe store on Court Street in Boston, wrapping boots in...
In 2019, twenty-two-year-old Maria Chen joined a sea turtle conservation team on the beaches of Padre Island, Texas. Her job during the night shift was...
In the summer of 2019, a twenty-year-old marine biology intern named Adriana arrived at Ostional Beach in Costa Rica to help monitor olive ridley sea...
In 2014, twelve-year-old Marcus Thompson lived with his grandmother in a narrow rowhouse in Baltimore. She had two phones — a cordless on the kitchen...
In the winter of 1632, an eighteen-year-old French soldier named Nicholas Herman stood staring at a leafless tree in the frozen countryside of Lorraine. The...
Mary McLeod was ten years old, picking cotton alongside her parents in Mayesville, South Carolina, in 1885. She could not read a single word. But...
In the summer of 386 AD, a thirty-one-year-old rhetoric professor sat weeping in a Milan garden. Augustine of Hippo had spent years running from God...
In the summer of 386 AD, a restless young professor named Augustine sat weeping beneath a fig tree in a Milan garden. He had spent...
On September 10, 1946, a thirty-six-year-old Albanian nun boarded a train in Calcutta bound for Darjeeling, heading to her annual retreat. Sister Teresa had served...
In 1936, a young apprentice named William Braid White sat in a concert hall in Chicago, convinced the Steinway on stage was perfectly tuned. His...
In October 2019, twelve-year-old Maya Chen stood on the observation platform at Cape May, New Jersey, during the fall hawk migration. Her grandmother had dragged...
In the summer of 2018, Petty Officer Third Class Maria Sandoval sat in the sonar room of the USS Bainbridge, two weeks into her first...
In 2019, a teenager named Marco Peña joined his grandfather's beekeeping operation outside Tucson, Arizona. His first summer, he couldn't distinguish one hum from another...
In the summer of 386 AD, Augustine sat weeping beneath a fig tree in a Milan garden, torn between the life he had been living...
On February 7, 1837, a sixteen-year-old girl sitting in the garden of Embley Park in Hampshire, England, heard something she could only describe as "God...
In June 1939, Dietrich Bonhoeffer arrived in New York City with every reason to stay. Friends had arranged a safe teaching position at Union Theological...
In the summer of 386 AD, a thirty-one-year-old rhetoric professor sat weeping beneath a fig tree in a Milan garden. Augustine of Hippo had been...
In Diamond, Missouri, around 1874, a frail orphan boy named George Washington Carver wandered the woods behind the Carver farm, whispering to sickly plants. Neighbors...
In 1920s London, Gladys Aylward was a parlor maid — barely five feet tall, with little formal education and no connections to the missionary world....
In the 1890s, a former enslaved man named George Washington Carver began a habit he would keep for the rest of his life. Every morning...
In ham radio, a mentor is called an Elmer. That's who fourteen-year-old Marcus found when he joined the amateur radio club in Cedar Rapids, Iowa....
During her third-year clinical rotation at Johns Hopkins, medical student Anita Patel pressed her stethoscope to a patient's chest and heard nothing unusual — just...
Dr. Rachel Nguyen still remembers her third week of clinical rotations at Johns Hopkins. Her attending physician, Dr. Owens, pressed a stethoscope to a patient's...
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