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Illustrations from Habakkuk

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Bonhoeffer's Watch Post

In April 1943, Dietrich Bonhoeffer was led into a concrete cell at Tegel Prison in Berlin, surrounded by the very injustice Habakkuk had lamented three...

Habakkuk 1:1-4; 2:1-4Universal

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The Farmer Who Planted After the Flood

In March 2019, floodwaters from the Missouri River swallowed Don Heger's farm near Craig, Missouri — 1,200 acres buried under silt and debris. Neighbors lost...

Habakkuk 1:1-4; 2:1-4Universal

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Wilberforce and the Long Wait for Justice

In 1787, William Wilberforce sat in his garden at Holwood House in Kent, weeping over Thomas Clarkson's evidence of the slave trade — iron shackles...

Habakkuk 1:1-4; 2:1-4Universal

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When the Harvest Is Gone and the Praise Remains

Marcus Briggs had farmed the same 340 acres outside Lubbock, Texas that his grandfather had broken ground on in 1948. In the spring of 2011,...

Habakkuk 3:17-19Universal

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The Farmer Who Planted in Drought

In 1988, the worst drought in fifty years scorched the plains of central Kansas. Creek beds turned to cracked mud. Cattle stood listless under cloudless...

Habakkuk 2:4Universal

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The Hooves That Grip the Bare Rock

In Italy's Gran Paradiso National Park, Alpine ibex scale the nearly vertical face of the Cingino Dam — a smooth concrete wall rising 160 feet...

Habakkuk 3:17-19Universal

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The Farmer Who Sang at Dawn

Margaret Ellison walked her withered soybean fields outside Decatur, Illinois, in the summer of 2012. The worst drought in fifty years had turned her 200...

Habakkuk 3:17-19Universal

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Wang Mingdao and the Empty Field

In 1955, Chinese pastor Wang Mingdao stood in a Beijing courtroom and watched everything stripped away. His church on Shi Cha Hai hutong — shuttered....

Habakkuk 3:17-19Universal

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The Surgeon's Unthinkable Cut

In 1846, a young mother named Alice Bennett lay dying of gangrene in a London hospital. Dr. Robert Liston told her he would save her...

Habakkuk 1:5Universal

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The Cellist of Sarajevo

During the siege of Sarajevo in 1993, mortar shells had reduced the city's beloved National Library to a smoldering skeleton. Bread lines became killing fields....

Habakkuk 3:17-19Universal

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The Telescope Nobody Wanted to Look Through

In 1847, a Hungarian physician named Ignaz Semmelweis made a discovery that should have changed medicine overnight. Working in a Vienna maternity ward where one...

Habakkuk 1:5Universal

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The Pastor Who Praised in the Underground Cell

Richard Wurmbrand, a Romanian pastor, spent fourteen years in communist prisons — three of them in solitary confinement thirty feet beneath Bucharest. He had no...

Habakkuk 3:17-19Universal

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The Song That Rose from the Deep

In November 1873, Horatio Spafford stood on the deck of a ship crossing the Atlantic. Days earlier, he had received a telegram from his wife...

Habakkuk 3:17-19Universal

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When Everything Was Gone, He Still Sang

On November 22, 1873, Horatio Spafford stood at a telegraph office in New York and read a message from his wife that began with two...

Habakkuk 3:17-19Universal

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The Empty Barn That Held Everything

Martin Edsel planted his last seeds in April 1988 with borrowed money and a prayer. By August, the Iowa fields that had fed his family...

Habakkuk 3:17-19Universal

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The Bare Pantry Hymn

Clara Montrose stood in her kitchen on a January morning in 1934, staring at three nearly empty shelves. The drought had taken the wheat. The...

Habakkuk 3:17-19Universal

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Songs from the Underground Cell

In 1948, Romanian secret police dragged Pastor Richard Wurmbrand into an underground prison cell in Bucharest. For three years, he lived in solitary confinement thirty...

Habakkuk 3:17-19Universal

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The Table She Set Anyway

On the evening the bank foreclosed on her farm outside Salina, Kansas, Ruth Meyers set the dinner table. White plates on a pressed cloth. Two...

Habakkuk 3:17-19Universal

Spiritual Discipline

Solitude and Silence: Isaac of Nineveh on Silence and the Soul

Teaching on Solitude and Silence from Isaac of Nineveh: Isaac of Nineveh on Silence and the Soul

Psalm 62:1-2Universaldeep silencewonder

Spiritual Discipline

Solitude and Silence: Ambrose of Milan: Silence Before God

Teaching on Solitude and Silence from Ambrose of Milan: Ambrose of Milan: Silence Before God

Psalm 39:1Universalsilenceself-mastery