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32 illustrations for sermon preparation
In 2012, oceanographer Victor Vescovo set out to do what no human had done — visit the deepest point in all five of the world's...
In the spring of 1987, Ruth Caldwell knelt in the cracked soil behind her rowhouse in Baltimore and planted twelve tomato seedlings. She was sixty-three,...
In 1995, astronomer Robert Williams made a decision his colleagues called a waste of time. He pointed the Hubble Space Telescope at a tiny patch...
Margaret Alvarez set one extra plate at her kitchen table in 1987. That was all — one plate for a boy named DeShawn who couldn't...
In 2015, Rashida Williams started baking sweet potato pies in her basement kitchen in Detroit. She had one goal: earn enough to keep the lights...
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 1995, astronomer Robert Williams made a request that his colleagues thought was wasteful. He asked to point the Hubble Space Telescope at a tiny,...
In 1987, Margaret Fielding of Decatur, Georgia, cleared out her spare bedroom and told her pastor she could host one missionary passing through town. She...
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 stood before the China Inland Mission board in London and received their verdict: rejected. She lacked the education, the language aptitude,...
When Katie Davis moved to Uganda at nineteen, she planned to teach kindergarten for a year. One year of service, one small classroom, one modest...
In 2018, a young woman named Priya Sharma walked into a community dinner at a church in Leicester, England. She wasn't a member. She wasn't...
In 1987, Margaret Hollis of Birmingham, England, cleared out her back bedroom and placed a single twin mattress on the floor. She told her pastor...
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...
When Katie Davis booked a one-way ticket to Uganda at nineteen, she had a modest plan: teach kindergarten for a year, maybe sponsor a few...
In 2018, third-grade teacher Maria Hernandez in East Los Angeles asked her principal for a small raised bed so her students could grow radishes for...
In 1930, Gladys Aylward knelt beside her narrow bed in a London parlor maid's quarters and asked God for one thing: passage to China. The...
For fourteen centuries, Egyptian hieroglyphics remained an impenetrable mystery. Scholars stared at temple walls covered in elaborate symbols and understood nothing. The meaning was there,...
In December 1995, astronomer Robert Williams made a decision his colleagues thought was foolish. As director of the Space Telescope Science Institute, he chose to...
For centuries, Egyptian hieroglyphics covered temple walls and burial chambers across the Nile Valley — thousands of symbols holding the secrets of an ancient civilization,...
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...
In 2019, Alice Plebuch of Vancouver, Washington, received DNA test results that made no sense. She was 100% Irish Catholic — or so she'd believed...
In 2003, a janitor named Emilio Sanchez worked the night shift at the Library of Congress in Washington, D.C. For years, he mopped floors and...
In 2018, architect Li Wei completed a stunning public library in Tianjin, China — the Binhai Library, with its soaring white shelves cascading from floor...
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