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21 illustrations — Vivid stories and real-world analogies for sermon use
In 1994, Dr. Erica Chen volunteered at a medical clinic in rural Guatemala. One afternoon, a young mother named Sofía carried in her three-year-old son,...
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During World War II, a British father named Ernest Gordon watched his teenage son walk away from everything the family stood for. The young man...
In 1891, a Swedish father named Lars Olsson watched his seventeen-year-old son, Erik, board a steamer in Gothenburg bound for America. Erik had rejected everything...
In 1987, a man named Robert Fulghum told the story of a father in Athens, Greece, whose son had run away from home. The father,...
In 2014, a journalist interviewing retired schoolteacher Margaret Ellison in Savannah, Georgia, noticed something peculiar on her refrigerator. Pinned beneath a magnet was a crayon...
In 1892, Casper ten Boom opened his watchmaker's shop each morning in Haarlem, Netherlands, and each evening he gathered his children around the table for...
In 2019, a journalist in Nashville profiled a man named David Chen who had kept his front porch light on every single night for eleven...
In 1646, Rembrandt van Rijn began what would become one of history's most celebrated paintings. But it was not until the final years of his...
For fourteen years, David Chen of Portland, Oregon, left his porch light on every single night. His daughter, Mei, had walked out at seventeen after...
For eleven months, David Chen left the porch light on at his home in Portland, Oregon. His daughter Mei had walked out after a terrible...
In the years before World War II, Corrie ten Boom's father Casper kept a watchmaker's shop in Haarlem, Netherlands. What few people remember is how...
In 1988, a wildfire swept through the hills outside Yellowstone, charring over 790,000 acres. Rangers and tourists alike mourned what seemed like irreversible devastation. Blackened...
In the winter of 1944, Casper ten Boom was eighty-four years old when the Gestapo arrested him for hiding Jewish families in his Haarlem watchshop....
In 2014, a church in Decatur, Georgia, shuttered its Thursday night soup kitchen. The reason was practical — they needed the fellowship hall cleared for...
In 1987, Margaret Ellison of Tupelo, Mississippi, kept a pristine house. Every Sunday she arranged fresh-cut hydrangeas on the foyer table, polished the silver until...
In 1748, John Newton was a slave trader sailing the West African coast, a man so profane that even hardened sailors flinched at his blasphemy....
In 1988, a peach farmer named Harold Gentry in Chilton County, Alabama, watched his orchard wither through the worst drought in forty years. Every tree...
In the Roman Empire, unwanted newborns were carried to the city dump and left on mounds of ash and refuse. Romans called the practice "exposure"...
In 2019, a foster father named Marcus Cole in Memphis, Tennessee, adopted three siblings — ages four, six, and nine — whose birth mother had...
In 1987, a woman named Dorothy Pennington kept the most spotless kitchen in all of Decatur, Georgia. Her copper pots gleamed. Her tile grout was...
In the fourth century, a North African mother named Monica watched her brilliant son Augustine abandon everything she had taught him. He took a concubine...