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1 Samuel Stories & Illustrations

105 illustrations — Vivid stories and real-world analogies for sermon use

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The Name That Outweighed the Arsenal

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...

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The Boy Who Copied Music by Moonlight

Johann Sebastian Bach was ten years old and newly orphaned when his older brother Johann Christoph took him in at Ohrdruf in 1695. The brother...

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The Murmur Only a Trained Ear Can Catch

In her first week of clinical rotations at Johns Hopkins, medical student Priya Anand pressed a stethoscope to a patient's chest and heard nothing unusual....

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What Bonhoeffer Heard in Harlem

In 1930, a twenty-four-year-old German theologian named Dietrich Bonhoeffer arrived at Union Theological Seminary in New York City. He was already brilliant — two doctoral...

1 Samuel 3:1-10Universal

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The Seismologist Who Felt What Others Missed

In 1989, a young graduate student named Lucile Jones was working late at the Southern California Seismograph Network when she noticed a pattern of micro-tremors...

1 Samuel 3:1-10Universal

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The Piano Tuner of Steinway Hall

For thirty-seven years, Bill Garlick tuned pianos at Steinway Hall in Manhattan. Visitors walked past the showroom instruments every day, hearing nothing unusual. But Garlick...

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William Wilberforce and the Old Pastor's Counsel

In the autumn of 1785, a restless twenty-five-year-old member of Parliament named William Wilberforce sat in the parlour of a modest rectory on Charles Square...

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George Washington Carver's 4 A.M. Walks

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...

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The First Night Home

When Marcus and Alicia brought their daughter home from Mercy Hospital in Baltimore, the apartment felt impossibly quiet — until 2 a.m. The baby cried,...

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