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23 illustrations for sermon preparation
Illustration connecting Abram's failure to Peter's—both became "the snake" when they prioritized human concerns over God's plan, showing that all heroes of faith struggle.
On March 10, 1748, a violent storm battered the merchant ship *Greyhound* off the coast of Ireland. John Newton, a twenty-two-year-old slave trader who had...
In 2019, a teenager named Maria in San Antonio stopped answering her mother's calls. She had dropped out of community college, fallen into debt she...
On April 27, 2011, an EF5 tornado carved a mile-wide path through Tuscaloosa, Alabama. When the sirens finally stopped, a father named James Davis sprinted...
In April 1943, Dietrich Bonhoeffer sat in a cold cell at Tegel Prison in Berlin, arrested for conspiring against the Nazi regime. Everything had collapsed...
Illustration using the iconic Life Alert commercial "I've fallen and I can't get up" to describe the helplessness and hopelessness of humanity after the Fall.
In 1977, Nelson Mandela persuaded the guards at Robben Island prison to let him cultivate a narrow strip of ground in the courtyard. He was...
On September 1, 2005, three days after Hurricane Katrina swallowed the Lower Ninth Ward, Marcus and Denise Williams stood in what had been their living...
In 2019, a teenager named Marcus in Birmingham, Alabama, wrecked his father's car after sneaking out past curfew. He didn't go home. For three days...
On March 15, 2014, a three-year-old boy named Ryker Webb wandered away from his family's home in Troy, Montana. For two days, search teams combed...
In the summer of 386 AD, a thirty-one-year-old professor of rhetoric sat weeping beneath a fig tree in a Milan garden. Augustine of Hippo had...
On the morning of April 19, 1995, just hours after the Oklahoma City bombing reduced the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building to rubble, rescue workers...
In 386 AD, a brilliant young professor sat weeping beneath a fig tree in a Milan garden. Augustine of Hippo had spent sixteen years running...
On a cold November evening in 2019, thirteen-year-old Marcus slipped out of his grandmother's house in Memphis and didn't come back. He'd broken her antique...
In early twentieth-century Japan, Tokichi Ishii sat in a prison cell awaiting execution. He had been convicted of multiple murders, and guards considered him one...
In 2019, seven-year-old Marcus Thompson of Decatur, Georgia, shattered his grandmother's antique vase while throwing a football in the living room. His father, DeShawn, came...
When the Great Fire of London consumed Old St. Paul's Cathedral in September 1666, Christopher Wren walked through the smoldering ruins surveying the devastation. Amid...
In the summer of 386 AD, a thirty-one-year-old rhetoric professor sat weeping beneath a fig tree in a Milan garden. Augustine of Hippo had spent...
When Marcus Thompson's five-year-old daughter Lily knocked his late mother's porcelain vase off the mantel in their Cincinnati living room, she didn't run to confess....
On the morning of November 15, 1940, Provost Richard Howard walked through the smoldering shell of Coventry Cathedral. German incendiary bombs had gutted the medieval...
On a frigid November night in 2013, four-year-old Jayden Morrison wandered away from his family's campsite near Lake Tahoe. His parents woke at dawn to...
In 1918, Tokichi Ishii sat in a Tokyo prison cell awaiting execution. He had murdered multiple people without remorse, and the Japanese courts had pronounced...
When Marcus Chen was sixteen, he took his father's car without permission and sideswiped a mailbox three blocks from home. He parked in the garage,...
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