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101 illustrations — Vivid stories and real-world analogies for sermon use
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...
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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...
In 2010, Dr. Evan Atar Adaha stood in a makeshift surgical tent in Kurmuk, a dusty border town in Sudan's Blue Nile region. Ethiopian militias...
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 2010, when a 7.0 earthquake leveled Port-au-Prince, Haiti, Dr. David Vanderpool arrived at a makeshift clinic with almost nothing. No electricity. No sterile operating...
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 1792, a young cobbler named William Carey stood before a gathering of Baptist ministers in Northampton, England, and proposed that Christians had an obligation...
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 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 1944, a young French nurse named Geneviève de Galard walked into a field hospital in Indochina carrying nothing but a medical bag and a...
On a winter morning in Embley Park, England, sixteen-year-old Florence Nightingale sat in her family's parlor and heard something she could not explain. She later...
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...