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The Bridge That Holds Even When You Forget It's There

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...

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The Bracelet She Couldn't Read

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...

Genesis 9:8-17Universal

The Phone Call She Almost Didn't Answer

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...

Bonhoeffer's Letter from the Ruins

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...

Genesis 45:3-11, 15Universal

The Letter That Took Twenty-Three Years to Open

In 2015, a Detroit man named Ronald Cotton finally opened a letter his estranged brother David had mailed him in 1992. For over two decades,...

The Light She Never Turned Off

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...

The Technology and Human Connection Challenge

In our fast-paced digital age, we often find ourselves tangled in the web of technology, where connections can feel both fleeting and profound. Imagine a young mother, Sarah, sitting in a bustling café, her eyes glued to her smartphone as...

Genesis 1:26-28Missional

The Flag on the Mailbox

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...

Genesis 14:18-20Universal

The Stranger at Mile 22

In 2018, marathon runner Katharina Steinruck hit the wall at mile 22 of the Frankfurt Marathon. Her legs cramped. Her vision blurred. She had been...

Genesis 45:3-11, 15Universal

The Letter That Took Twenty Years to Open

In 2019, a woman named Sara Northrup found a sealed envelope tucked inside her late mother's Bible. It was addressed to her uncle David, her...

Science Illustration: Learning from Failure

A scientist named Dr. Emily Hartman dedicated her life to understanding the cosmos. With her passion for unraveling the mysteries of the universe, she focused on a particular experiment—one that aimed to recreate the very conditions of the Big Bang....

Genesis 1:1-5Universal

Genesis 15:1-12, 17-18Universal

The Co-Signer Who Took It All

In 2019, a single mother named Maria Gonzalez walked into a credit union in San Antonio, Texas, hoping to secure a small loan to start...

The Bridge That Stayed

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...

I've Fallen and I Can't Get Up: Life Alert

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.

Genesis 3:8-10Universal

The Search Party That Never Gave Up

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...

The Garden in Milan

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...

Genesis 15:1-12, 17-18Universal

The Contract Only One Side Signed

In 2018, a young couple in East Nashville sat across from a mortgage lender, overwhelmed. They had no savings, inconsistent income, and a credit history...

The Mark That Meant Mercy

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...

The Name He Gave Her

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...

The Father Who Came to the Front Porch

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...

Seeds on Robben Island

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...

The Green Light on the Wall

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...

Genesis 15:1-12, 17-18Universal

The Promise That Cost Everything

In 1944, as Allied bombs shook the factories of Kraków, Oskar Schindler sat across from Amon Göth and began purchasing human lives. His workers —...

The Name That Held a Promise

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...