602 illustrations referencing Ephesians
A man struggled with expensive cell phone bills, carefully monitoring every minute and text to avoid overages. He lived in constant anxiety, always checking his usage, rationing his calls. One day, hi...
In Les Miserables, Jean Valjean is a convict, hardened by nineteen years in prison. A bishop shows him mercy, giving him silver candlesticks, calling him brother. Valjean tears up his parole papers an
In Spotlight, Boston Globe journalists uncover the Catholic Church's systematic cover-up of child abuse. They share their roof with survivors, listen to painful stories, bring hidden wickedness into l
Ephesus Ephesus stood at the crossroads of both north-south and east-west trade routes and was well known as the “guardian” of the temple of Artemis (Acts 19:35). It was founded by Ionian Greeks arou
Ephesus Ephesus stood at the crossroads of both north-south and east-west trade routes and was well known as the “guardian” of the temple of Artemis (Acts 19:35). It was founded by Ionian Greeks arou
The Church The church is the community of those who recognize the lordship of Christ and submit to him (Eph 5:21-24). In the Greek world, the word translated “church” (Greek ekklēsia) designated an “
The Church The church is the community of those who recognize the lordship of Christ and submit to him (Eph 5:21-24). In the Greek world, the word translated “church” (Greek ekklēsia) designated an “
In The King's Speech, Lionel Logue isn't a credentialed speech therapist—he's an Australian actor. But he sees something in stammering King George VI that others don't: a voice worth hearing. Through
In Scrooge (A Christmas Carol), Ebenezer Scrooge wakes on Christmas morning transformed. He has not merely resolved to be better—he has been remade. He buys the biggest turkey, gives Bob Cratchit a ra
In Wonder, Auggie Pullman enters middle school with a severe facial difference. He is stared at, bullied, isolated. Yet the film insists: he is fearfully and wonderfully made. The Psalmist says, I pra
For centuries, Egyptian hieroglyphics covered temple walls and burial chambers across the Nile Valley — thousands of symbols holding the secrets of an ancient civilization,...
In 2019, a woman named Lisa Goich-Andreadis from Detroit published a memoir about discovering, at age forty-three, that she had been adopted. Her parents had...
In 1864, Confederate raiders kidnapped an enslaved woman named Mary from a small Missouri farm, taking her infant son with her. Moses Carver, the farmer,...
In the winter of 1991, a cellist named Margaret Kimura sat in her Chicago apartment with an eviction notice on the kitchen table. She had...
In 1930, Gladys Aylward was a parlor maid in London earning barely enough to survive. The China Inland Mission had rejected her — too old...
In the ancient Orthodox liturgy, when the priest opens the Royal Doors of the iconostasis, he enacts what Paul proclaimed in Ephesians 2:14 — Christ Himself is our peace, the One who has torn down the dividing wall of hostility....
Dear God of the oppressed and the oppressor alike, Ephesians 2:14 tells us that Christ "has broken down the dividing wall of hostility" — and I confess that some walls I have grown comfortable living behind. Some walls I have...
When Oswald Chambers died suddenly in Cairo in 1917 at the age of forty-three, his wife Biddy faced an unimaginable loss. She was a trained...
In 1987, Harold Matheson drove thirty bare-root walnut saplings into the red clay of his property outside Willamette, Oregon. His own children thought he'd lost...
In 1964, Arno Penzias and Robert Wilson at Bell Labs in Holmdel, New Jersey, had a modest problem. Their radio antenna picked up a persistent...
In American History X, Derek Vinyard is a neo-Nazi whose hatred landed him in prison. There, a Black inmate named Lamont befriends him, slowly dissolving Derek's ideology through ordinary kindness—fol
In 45 BC, a sickly eighteen-year-old named Gaius Octavius was studying rhetoric in Apollonia, a small coastal town in modern-day Albania. He had no army,...
When Katie Davis moved to Uganda at nineteen, she had a simple plan: teach kindergarten for a year, then come home to Nashville and finish...
Gracious God, as this day fades into evening stillness, I bring before You the conversations we so often get wrong — the ones about bodies, intimacy, and what it means to bear Your image as whole persons. We have turned...