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20 illustrations — Vivid stories and real-world analogies for sermon use
When missionary pilot Nate Saint was killed by Waodani warriors in Ecuador in January 1956, his son Steve was just five years old. The boy...
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When Antonin Dvorak left the National Conservatory of Music in New York in 1895, he did not simply pack his bags and vanish. For three...
When NASA flight director Gene Kranz retired in 1994, he didn't just leave behind a desk and a headset. He left behind a way of...
During the fall of 1944, Dr. grueling months of the London Blitz had left — actually, let me craft something more fitting and specific. The...
In 2003, a retired Army colonel named Frank sat in a bare church basement in Columbus, Ohio, staring at a circle of metal folding chairs....
In 1928, Alexander Fleming left a petri dish uncovered before going on vacation. When he returned to his lab at St. Mary's Hospital in London,...
In 1977, astronomers at the Big Ear radio telescope in Delaware, Ohio, detected a seventy-two-second signal from deep space — a burst of energy so...
In 1982, a young chemist named Gertrude Elion stood in a Stockholm concert hall to receive the Nobel Prize for developing the first effective drug...
In 2019, a cardiac surgeon in Nashville told forty-seven-year-old Marcus Dean that his dangerously high blood pressure could be managed — not with an experimental...
In 1968, thirty-nine-year-old Ralph Abernathy stood on the balcony of the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, cradling Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. as his mentor lay...
When legendary basketball coach Dean Smith retired from the University of North Carolina in 1997, he left behind more than a record book. He left...
In 2012, a surgical team at Mount Sinai Hospital in New York began using fluorescence-guided surgery to remove cancerous tumors. The surgeon would inject a...
In the winter of 1546, the Scottish preacher George Wishart traveled from town to town proclaiming the gospel against fierce opposition. At his side walked...
In 1847, a young Hungarian physician named Ignaz Semmelweis made a discovery that should have revolutionized medicine overnight. At Vienna General Hospital, mothers were dying...
When legendary chef Leah Chase passed away in 2019 at age ninety-six, the future of Dooky Chase's Restaurant in New Orleans hung in the balance....
In 1948, a young Baptist preacher named Howard Thurman sat across from Mahatma Gandhi in his sparse ashram in Sevagram, India. Gandhi had spent decades...
In October 1536, William Tyndale was led to a stake near Brussels, strangled, and burned for the crime of translating Scripture into English. His final...
In October 1536, William Tyndale was led to a stake outside Brussels, strangled, and burned. His crime was translating the New Testament into English so...
In 1847, Hungarian physician Ignaz Semmelweis noticed something devastating in the Vienna General Hospital. Women in the maternity ward staffed by doctors were dying of...
Dr. Elena Vargas had spent twenty-three years as one of Houston's most respected cardiac surgeons. When persistent chest tightness sent her to a colleague's office...