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The sermon illustration emphasizes the importance of observing a digital Sabbath to reconnect with God and foster meaningful relationships. It highlights the detrimental effects of constant digital engagement on spiritual well-being and encourages intentional unplugging to cultivate peace and transformation in our lives.
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The sermon illustration emphasizes the importance of a digital Sabbath, encouraging individuals to unplug from technology to reconnect with God and foster genuine relationships. It highlights the need for intentional rest and spiritual practices that promote human flourishing and transformation in a fast-paced, digitally-driven culture.
In 2019, a couple in Portland, Oregon named David and Maria Chen stood before 200 guests and spoke their wedding vows. But what made the...
On September 2, 1945, aboard the USS Missouri in Tokyo Bay, representatives from Japan and the Allied powers gathered around a simple mess table draped...
On December 10, 1941, a twenty-six-year-old writer named Thomas Merton drove through the Kentucky hills to the Abbey of Gethsemani. He had tasted literary success...
Margaret Chen spent every Tuesday morning for eleven years visiting Ward 7 of St. Luke's Hospital in Houston. She read psalms to patients, held hands...
Marie Curie spent years in a cramped Paris laboratory, hunched over vials of pitchblende, isolating the element she would name radium. She worked so closely...
In 2018, mountaineer Adrian Ballinger sat at Camp 4 on Everest — 26,000 feet up — waiting. The summit was close enough to see, but...
In 2018, a restaurant owner in Memphis named Frank watched his teenage son steal $4,000 from the register and disappear for three weeks. The money...
On November 11, 1620, forty-one men crowded into the cramped main cabin of the Mayflower, anchored off the coast of Cape Cod. They had spent...
On August 5, 2010, seven hundred thousand tons of rock collapsed inside Chile's San Jose copper mine, sealing thirty-three miners 2,300 feet underground. They had...
On February 28, 1638, hundreds of Scottish men and women crowded into the churchyard of Greyfriars Kirk in Edinburgh. They came to sign the National...
In 2010, a severe drought gripped the Turkana region of northern Kenya. Wells ran dry. Livestock collapsed in the dust. Families walked hours to find...
In February 2018, a young father named David Chen lay shivering under three blankets in his Portland apartment, burning with a 103-degree fever from a...
In June of 2008, Linda Crawley stood on the front porch of her Cedar Rapids home and watched the Iowa River swallow her street. Water...
In December 1983, South African police captain Johan van der Merwe helped orchestrate a campaign of violence against Black communities resisting apartheid. Bombings. Raids. Families...
In March of 2019, the Missouri River swallowed David Hagen's soybean fields outside Hamburg, Iowa. He stood on the second-floor landing of his farmhouse at...
During the Siege of Leiden in 1574, the people of Holland faced a crisis eerily similar to Israel at Rephidim. Spanish forces had surrounded the...
In 2019, mountaineer Sarah Marquis described something that every serious climber knows but few expect the first time. On the ascent of a major peak,...
In 1836, twenty-three-year-old Robert Murray M'Cheyne arrived at St. Peter's Church in Dundee, Scotland, as its new pastor. What happened over the next seven years...
Every summer along Florida's Atlantic coast, lifeguards respond to the same tragic scene. A swimmer gets caught in a rip current — that narrow, powerful...
Every summer, lifeguards along Florida's Gulf Coast pull hundreds of swimmers from rip currents — narrow channels of water rushing away from shore at speeds...
Margaret Chen had tried everything. Three attorneys, two mediators, and eighteen months of sleepless nights fighting a landlord who wanted her family's bakery gone from...
Along the tidal flats of Morecambe Bay in northwest England, local guides have led travelers across the shifting sands for over five centuries. Cedric Robinson,...