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2,349 illustrations across all 66 chapters
In Hotel Rwanda, Paul Rusesabagina shelters over 1,200 Tutsi refugees in his hotel during the genocide. He bribes, bluffs, and bargains with killers to keep them alive. "Is not this the fast that I choose: to loose the bonds of wickedness...
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In Just Mercy, Bryan Stevenson defends Walter McMillian, a Black man wrongly convicted of murder in Alabama. The system is rigged, the judge hostile, the town resistant. But Bryan persists. "Let justice roll down like waters, and righteousness like an...
In To Kill a Mockingbird, Atticus Finch defends a Black man accused of rape in 1930s Alabama. He knows he will lose; he defends Tom Robinson anyway. He does not grandstand—he simply does his job with integrity. What does the Lord require of you?
John Coffey, a giant of a man wrongly condemned to death, possesses the gift of healing. He draws sickness into himself, bearing others' pain at great personal cost. "I'm tired, boss," he says. "Tired of people being ugly to each other.
In Spotlight, Boston Globe journalists uncover the Catholic Church's systematic cover-up of child abuse. They share their roof with survivors, listen to painful stories, bring hidden wickedness into light.
In Babette's Feast, two elderly Danish sisters take in Babette, a French refugee, as their cook. For fourteen years she serves them plain food. When she wins the lottery, she spends it all on one magnificent French feast for the...
At the end of The Lord of the Rings, Frodo cannot stay in the Shire. His wounds are too deep; Middle-earth holds too much pain.
Isaiah Isaiah was a Judean prophet during the reigns of Uzziah, Jotham, Ahaz, and Hezekiah. He was the son of Amoz (Isa 1:1) and was possibly related to King Amaziah. He lived in Jerusalem, was well educated, and had deep insight into human nature.
In Room, five-year-old Jack has spent his entire life in captivity—a small shed his mother calls "Room." When they escape into the real world, the world terrifies him. Everything is too big, too bright, too much. But his mother's love anchors him.
In Saving Private Ryan, Captain Miller leads his squad through hell to find one paratrooper. Every soldier asks why risk eight lives for one. But deeper, Miller goes because he was sent. Isaiah heard the voice of the Lord asking, Whom shall I send?
In Children of Men, humanity faces extinction—no child has been born in eighteen years. Theo Faron must protect Kee, the first pregnant woman in a generation. Amid war, chaos, and despair, Theo becomes her refuge. God is our refuge and...
In Unbroken, Louis Zamperini survives a plane crash, 47 days on a raft, and brutal POW camps. His tormentor, "The Bird," tries daily to break him. Louis endures through something beyond human grit—a peace his circumstances can't explain.
The prophets have sung of a golden age, the saints have prayed for one, and the Bible distinctly teaches that one will come.
Our confidence in missionary labor rests entirely upon the prophecies of God's Word declaring it His will.
This image reveals two dimensions of His fastening hold upon humanity.
The Nature of Rest in Christ differs fundamentally from earthly comfort.
"The inhabitant shall not say, I am sick." In this world, ruined by sin, the whole head is sick and the whole heart faint.
The same Almighty One who fed Elijah in the terrible days of dearth, and who delivered Daniel from the power of the lions, still watches over and provides for His people.
Exell's Victorian exposition illuminates two critical spiritual failures.
This vivid metaphor describes how God's people must guard and maintain the truths contained in Scripture through deliberate action.
The exiles' return to Jerusalem embodies this metaphor.
The tabernacle in which our soul dwells is a most frail and complicated machine.
The prophet employs visceral imagery: nations flung into the press like ripe grapes, their life-blood spattering upon His garments as He stands knee-deep in the vat, fiercely trampling them to ruin.
Exell's *Biblical Illustrator* offers three principles for this conquest.