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353 illustrations — Vivid stories and real-world analogies for sermon use
On August 5, 2010, the San José copper mine in Copiapó, Chile, collapsed. Thirty-three miners were trapped 2,300 feet underground — deeper than two Empire...
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In 2011, the tsunami that devastated Fukushima, Japan, stripped the coastal town of Rikuzentakata down to mud and silence. Among the 70,000 pine trees that...
In October 2001, workers clearing the wreckage at Ground Zero discovered a Callery pear tree buried beneath the rubble. It was barely alive — an...
In 2018, Katie Blomquist, a first-grade teacher in North Charleston, South Carolina, noticed her students had no bicycles. Not a single one. Most had never...
In 2012, a brutal drought scorched 80 percent of America's farmland. Across southern Kansas, cattle ponds turned to cracked mud. Irrigation systems sputtered and failed....
On the night of November 23, 1654, Blaise Pascal — one of the most brilliant mathematicians in France — sat alone in his room in...
On August 25, 1944, the great bell Emmanuel — thirteen tons of bronze hanging in the south tower of Notre-Dame — had been silent through...
Andre Trocme was a pastor in Le Chambon-sur-Lignon, a small Protestant village in the mountains of southern France. When the Nazis occupied France in 1940,...
On the morning of November 15, 1940, the people of Coventry, England, emerged from their shelters to find their beloved medieval cathedral reduced to a...
Dorothy Chen had volunteered at Grace Community's food pantry every Tuesday for eleven years. She knew the regulars by name — knew that Miguel's daughter...
On August 22, 2010, a drill probe broke through rock at the San José mine in Chile's Atacama Desert. For seventeen days, thirty-three miners had...
In 1904, a twenty-six-year-old Welsh coal miner named Evan Roberts stood before a small congregation in Loughor and spoke with trembling conviction about the saving...
For nine days, families gathered outside Tham Luang cave in northern Thailand barely slept. Twelve boys from the Wild Boars soccer team and their twenty-five-year-old...
For six long years in Rangoon, Adoniram Judson preached, translated, and pleaded — and won almost no one. By 1818, he had exactly zero Burmese...
On the night of November 23, 1654, the brilliant French mathematician Blaise Pascal had an encounter so overwhelming that he could barely find words for...
There’s a woman named Sarah, a member of our community, whose story resonates deeply with the themes of redemption and transformation. Not long ago, Sarah found herself trapped in a cycle of addiction that had consumed her life for years....
On October 17, 2010, a billion people watched a television feed from the Atacama Desert in Chile. But the real moment had come weeks earlier,...
On the evening of November 23, 1654, Blaise Pascal — mathematician, physicist, inventor of the first mechanical calculator, one of the finest minds in Europe...
On the evening of July 31, 1834, tens of thousands of enslaved men and women across Jamaica gathered in churches, chapels, and open hillsides. They...
On August 25, 1944, after four years of Nazi occupation, the first French tanks rolled into central Paris. For a breathless moment, the city held...
In 2005, a blacksmith named Celestin Musekura returned to Rwanda, eleven years after the genocide that killed over 800,000 of his countrymen — including members...
The Civil Rights Movement required decades of waiting—not passive waiting, but active, hopeful, persistent waiting. Martin Luther King Jr. spoke of "the fierce urgency of now," but also of trusting God's timing. Rosa Parks waited years after her famous bus arrest before seeing full integration.
In 1977, Wangari Maathai stood on the eroded hillsides of central Kenya and saw what decades of deforestation had done. The streams her mother once...
After Jesus ascended, He told the disciples to WAIT in Jerusalem for the Spirit. They waited 10 days—praying, worshipping, expecting. Then Pentecost exploded. The waiting wasn't passive; it was pregnant with expectation. "Those who wait on the LORD shall renew...