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101 illustrations — Vivid stories and real-world analogies for sermon use
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...
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In 2019, a young nurse named David Chen kept getting a nagging thought during his shifts at Seattle Children's Hospital. Every time he passed Room...
In the narrow house on Barteljorisstraat 19 in Haarlem, Netherlands, old Casper ten Boom gathered his children each evening around the dining table for Scripture...
In May 1942, a frightened woman knocked on the door of a small watchmaker's shop at 19 Barteljorisstraat in Haarlem, Netherlands. She was Jewish, desperate,...
On February 7, 1837, a sixteen-year-old girl sitting in the garden of her family's estate in Embley Park, Hampshire, recorded four words in her diary...
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...
On February 7, 1837, sixteen-year-old Florence Nightingale sat in her family's garden at Embley Park in Hampshire, England, and heard something she could not explain....
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 autumn of 1785, twenty-six-year-old William Wilberforce sat across from John Newton in a small parlor on Charles Square in London. Wilberforce had been...
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...
When twelve-year-old Maya Chen first noticed it during a Tuesday afternoon lesson in her teacher's studio on West 72nd Street, she stopped mid-bow. A faint...
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...
On February 7, 1837, sixteen-year-old Florence Nightingale sat in the garden of her family's estate at Embley Park in Hampshire, England. In her diary that...
Dr. Maria Santos still remembers her first overnight shift at Johns Hopkins in July 2019 — hallways humming with fluorescent light, monitors beeping from every...
In 2019, a retired teacher named Margaret Chen sat in her kitchen in Portland, Oregon, fiddling with her late husband's old shortwave radio. She twisted...
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 1995, acoustic ecologist Gordon Hempton traveled to Olympic National Park in Washington State to document something increasingly rare: one square inch of pure silence....
In 2019, a retired schoolteacher named Margaret Chen joined a birding group in Oregon's Malheur National Wildlife Refuge. On her first morning walk, she heard...
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 1962, a fifteen-year-old named George Martin sat in the control room at Abbey Road Studios, learning to engineer sound. His mentor, Oscar Preuss, taught...
Maria Chen was three weeks into her training at the Sacramento 911 dispatch center when she nearly missed the call that mattered most. A woman...
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...
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...