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18 illustrations for sermon preparation
Illustration paralleling Noah's sin with the vineyard to Adam's sin with fruit—both crossed boundaries, both ended in shameful nakedness needing covering, but both were covered by righteousness through faith (Genesis 15:6).
In 2005, a young couple named David and Maria closed on their first home in Cedar Rapids, Iowa. Three years later, the Cedar River surged...
Margaret Huang installed the porch light three days after her son David came home. He'd been gone for eleven days — no phone call, no...
When David and Maria Hernandez drove to the orphanage in Bogota, Colombia, in 2019, they carried a small silver bracelet engraved with three words: *Siempre...
For centuries, the Bell Rock reef off Scotland's eastern coast was a graveyard. Submerged at high tide and barely visible at low, the jagged stone...
In 2019, a landlord named David Perez in San Antonio bought a small apartment complex on Guadalupe Street — twelve units, mostly elderly tenants on...
On June 24, 1859, a young Swiss businessman named Henry Dunant stumbled onto the aftermath of the Battle of Solferino in northern Italy. Nearly forty...
In 2005, when Hurricane Katrina's floodwaters finally receded from the Lower Ninth Ward in New Orleans, residents returned to find almost nothing standing. Houses had...
In 2018, the Hernandez family lost nearly everything when an electrical fire swept through their home in suburban Houston. Their two daughters, ages six and...
After Hurricane Katrina swallowed everything Margaret Boudreaux owned in the Lower Ninth Ward, she stood in ankle-deep mud and told her grown children she was...
In 1679, the Great Plague swept through Vienna, killing an estimated 76,000 people in a matter of months. Emperor Leopold I, who had fled the...
On May 8, 1945, Winston Churchill stood on the balcony of the Ministry of Health in London and addressed a crowd of thousands packed into...
On April 9, 1865, General Robert E. Lee walked into the parlor of Wilmer McLean's farmhouse at Appomattox Court House, Virginia. The Civil War had...
In downtown Oklahoma City, an American Elm stands in the northwest corner of the National Memorial. Before April 19, 1995, nobody paid it much attention...
On June 5, 1947, Secretary of State George Marshall stood before Harvard's graduating class and made a quiet, extraordinary promise. Europe lay in ruins —...
On April 19, 1995, a truck bomb tore through the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City, killing 168 people. The blast shattered glass...
In 1948, three years after Allied bombs had reduced Berlin to rubble, a young American pilot named Gail Halvorsen stood at the Tempelhof Airport fence....
On August 6, 1945, a single bomb reduced Hiroshima to ash and shadow. Over 140,000 people perished. The city lay in ruins so complete that...
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