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225 illustrations — Vivid stories and real-world analogies for sermon use
In today's world, the insidious nature of gossip can feel like a storm brewing just beneath the calm surface of our daily lives. It's easy to dismiss it as a simple matter of words, but consider for a moment the...
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There once was a skilled potter who worked diligently in his studio, surrounded by the aroma of clay and the soft sound of a spinning wheel. One day, a lump of formless clay sat on the wheel, feeling lost and...
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 the hills outside Asheville, North Carolina, furniture maker David Holbrook keeps a workshop where every piece begins the same way. Before he touches a...
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 1987, Margaret Hollis of Birmingham, England, cleared out her back bedroom and placed a single twin mattress on the floor. She told her pastor...
In 2019, a couple in Nashville named David and Maria Torres finally completed the adoption of their daughter, Lily, from foster care. The process had...
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...
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...
For centuries, Egyptian hieroglyphics covered temple walls and burial chambers across the Nile Valley — thousands of symbols holding the secrets of an ancient civilization,...
As I sat in a quaint little café last week, I overheard a conversation between a grandmother and her young grandson. He was excitedly sharing his dreams of becoming an artist, but when he described his latest drawing, his words...
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...
The other day, I watched a local artist working on a mural in our community park. With each stroke of her brush, she transformed a blank wall into a vibrant tapestry of colors and scenes depicting unity and hope. I...
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...
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...
In 1733, a devout woman in Wapping, London, held her infant son John Newton and dedicated him to the Lord's service. She taught him scripture,...
In our fast-paced modern world, the concept of safety often feels like a double-edged sword, cutting both ways amid our longing for security. Just a few weeks ago, I sat down with a dear friend, a skilled nurse working in...
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 2018, architect Li Wei completed a stunning public library in Tianjin, China — the Binhai Library, with its soaring white shelves cascading from floor...
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...
"Not by works"—what good news for those the system has labeled unproductive! The unemployed, the disabled, the elderly, the sick cannot earn their worth through labor. Grace declares worth before achievement. The poor hear Ephesians 2:8-9 and understand: they matter...
In our modern world, where economic inequality often paints a stark divide between the haves and the have-nots, the call for generosity resonates louder than ever, echoing the principles laid out in Scripture. Picture a community where a young mother,...