77 illustrations referencing Deuteronomy
Moab and Ammon The Moabites were descended from Moab, the son of Lot and his oldest daughter (Gen 19:36-38). They settled on the high plateau immediately east of the Dead Sea. Most of Moab is gently
Moab and Ammon The Moabites were descended from Moab, the son of Lot and his oldest daughter (Gen 19:36-38). They settled on the high plateau immediately east of the Dead Sea. Most of Moab is gently
In Coco, the dead truly die only when no one living remembers them. Héctor is fading because his daughter Coco, now elderly, is forgetting him. Miguel races to restore her memory before it's too late.
Every Thanksgiving morning, Maria Gonzalez sets a wooden basket on her kitchen counter in San Antonio before she starts cooking. Into it she places a...
Dear God of Love and Justice, When I peer through a microscope at a single human cell — three billion letters of DNA coiled inside something smaller than a grain of sand — I stand on holy ground. Science does...
George Washington Carver was born into slavery in Diamond, Missouri, around 1864. Kidnapped as an infant along with his mother, he was ransomed back for...
Dear God of Love and Justice, Deuteronomy 10:19 cuts straight to the bone: "You shall love the stranger, for you were strangers in the land of Egypt." Not tolerate the stranger. Not pity the stranger. Love them — because You...
Gracious God, who set the stars in their courses and yet bends low to hear the whisper of the exile, This morning I hold before you the face of every stranger standing at an unfamiliar door — the mother clutching...
Dear God of Love and Justice, The Hebrew words *Imago Dei* — "the image of God" — are not a theological abstraction. They are the most radical claim ever made about a human being. When You spoke those words over...
Dear God of all creation, This morning I stood at the kitchen window and watched a robin pull a worm from the rain-softened earth — the same small miracle that has unfolded in gardens since Eden. And I remembered that...
In May 1940, the British Expeditionary Force was trapped at Dunkirk, France was falling, and Hitler's armies seemed unstoppable. Parliament debated whether to negotiate peace...
In 2010, when thirty-three Chilean miners were trapped 2,300 feet underground in the San Jose mine, rescue teams on the surface had no idea if...
Heavenly Father, I come to You this evening with a phone in my hand and a quiet ache in my chest. Deuteronomy 10:19 calls me to love the stranger — and tonight I confess that I have scrolled past more...
In 1748, a twenty-three-year-old sailor named John Newton clung to the rigging of the Greyhound as waves crashed over the deck in the North Atlantic....
On July 4, 2018, twelve boys from the Wild Boars soccer team and their coach sat trapped in the flooded chambers of Tham Luang cave...
Dear God of Love and Justice, Deuteronomy 10:19 cuts straight to the heart: "You shall love the stranger, for you were strangers in the land of Egypt." You didn't say tolerate the stranger. You didn't say study the stranger from...
Lord of the exile and the homecoming, Tonight I come before You carrying the weight of every grudge I've nursed and every bridge I've been afraid to cross. Deuteronomy 10:19 cuts straight to the bone: "You shall love the stranger,...
Lord of all mercy, You who wept over Jerusalem and grieved every act of violence done under the sun — hear us now. We confess that we have grown numb. Another headline scrolls past, another vigil is held on another...
Dear God of Love and Justice, Deuteronomy 10:19 commands us plainly: "Love the stranger, for you were strangers in the land of Egypt." The early Anabaptists understood this in their bones — hunted across Europe, they found refuge in the...
Dear God of Welcome and Justice, In 1853, Antoinette Brown Blackwell stood before the World's Temperance Convention in New York City to speak — and was shouted down for an entire day. She never left the platform. She simply stood,...
In About Time, Tim discovers he can travel through time. He could use this power for wealth or fame, but he learns its best use: being fully present with the people he loves. His father advises: "Live
The sermon illustration emphasizes the importance of heart transformation in biblical parenting rather than mere behavior modification. It highlights the need for parents to internalize God's word and address the heart issues of their children, fostering a loving and faith-integrated environment that encourages genuine faith and obedience.
In Deuteronomy 10:12-22, we read this passage as a divine call to justice and community responsibility. God commands us to 'serve the LORD your God with all your heart and with all your soul,' which we understand as a mandate for holistic liberation. The text reminds us of the 'mighty acts' God perf
In Deuteronomy 10:12-22, we read an exhortation to love and serve the Lord with all our heart and soul as an invitation into a covenantal relationship with God. In our tradition, this passage is understood as a call to enter a life of grace, expressed through the sacraments and the moral life. The t