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101 illustrations — Vivid stories and real-world analogies for sermon use
In late March, along County Road 12 outside Ithaca, New York, ten-year-old Maya Chen pressed her face against the car window and frowned. Her father...
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On February 7, 1837, a sixteen-year-old English girl sitting in the garden at Embley Park recorded four words in her diary that would alter the...
On January 6, 1850, a fifteen-year-old boy named Charles Spurgeon trudged through a blizzard in Colchester, England. For months he had been restless with spiritual...
In 2019, Marcus Chen started his apprenticeship at a piano restoration shop on West 57th Street in Manhattan. His mentor, a seventy-year-old tuner named Gerald,...
In February 1825, Samuel Morse was in Washington, D.C., painting a portrait of the Marquis de Lafayette when a horse messenger delivered a letter from...
In 2019, Coast Guard Petty Officer Third Class Maria Reyes was three weeks into her first posting at Station Cape Disappointment in Washington State when...
When Marcus Chen brought his newborn daughter home from the hospital in Portland, every cry sounded identical — a piercing, urgent alarm that sent him...
Fourteen-year-old Marcus thought his grandfather's ham radio setup was just a relic — dusty dials and tangled cables filling half the garage in Topeka, Kansas....
In a small roastery in Portland, Oregon, twenty-three-year-old Mateo Reyes stood over a drum roaster for the first time, overwhelmed by heat and noise. His...
In the autumn of 1785, William Wilberforce sat across from John Newton in a London parlor, convinced he needed to leave Parliament and enter the...
For thirty-one years, Captain Ray Muñoz slept with one ear open at Station 14 in San Antonio. He could distinguish the pitch of a smoke...
At 5:51 a.m. on September 14, 2015, a faint chirp appeared on the detectors at LIGO — the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory — in Livingston,...
In 2019, a rookie 911 dispatcher named Maria Delgado sat through her first overnight shift in El Paso, Texas. The veteran dispatchers warned her: most...
In January 1736, a violent storm battered the ship carrying John Wesley to the Georgia colony. While English passengers screamed in terror, a group of...
In December 1785, twenty-five-year-old William Wilberforce knocked on the door of an aging clergyman in London, unsure why he had come. He had been a...
On the night of November 23, 1654, the brilliant French mathematician Blaise Pascal sat alone in his room in Paris. He was thirty-one years old,...
In 2019, a pediatric nurse named Clara Mendes in São Paulo, Brazil, kept waking at 3 a.m. with the same persistent thought: check on the...
In 2000, a skinny kid from San Mateo, California sat in the NFL Draft green room and waited. And waited. Tom Brady watched 198 players...
On February 7, 1837, sixteen-year-old Florence Nightingale sat in her family's parlor in Hampshire, England, and heard what she could only describe as the voice...
On the evening of November 23, 1654, the French mathematician Blaise Pascal sat alone in his Paris rooms. He was thirty-one years old, brilliant beyond...
Marcus Chen had walked the trails of Cuyahoga Valley National Park dozens of times with his headphones in. When his retired neighbor, Dorothy, invited him...
On February 7, 1837, a sixteen-year-old girl sitting beneath the cedars at Embley Park in Hampshire, England, heard something she could not explain. Florence Nightingale...
At 2:14 on a Tuesday morning, David Marsh's phone buzzed on the nightstand in his apartment in Columbus, Ohio. Half-asleep, he silenced it — probably...
On the night of November 23, 1654, Blaise Pascal sat alone in his room in Paris. He was thirty-one years old, already famous for his...