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353 illustrations — Vivid stories and real-world analogies for sermon use
William Carey mended shoes in the English village of Moulton, a self-taught cobbler with a homemade leather globe stitched together on his workbench. He had...
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In August 2021, when the last American planes lifted off from Kabul's airport, thousands of Afghan families were left behind with nothing but fear and...
Every Saturday morning, Maria Gonzalez sets up a folding table outside her bakery on Magnolia Street in downtown San Antonio. She covers it with a...
On Christmas Day, 1989, Romanian radio crackled to life with words no one had dared speak in forty-four years: "The dictator has fallen. You are...
When Hurricane Harvey stalled over Houston in August 2017, Marcus Rivera watched the water creep up his elderly mother's front steps from a live camera...
Dr. Elena Vasquez had performed over three thousand surgeries at Mount Sinai Hospital in New York. Her hands were legendary — steady as marble, precise...
In 2012, a young Afghan woman named Sakena Yacoobi quietly opened a school in a basement in Herat. No banners. No press conferences. No armed...
In 1873, a thirty-three-year-old Belgian priest named Damien de Veuster stepped off a cargo ship onto the rocky shore of Kalaupapa, a leper colony on...
In the autumn of 1938, Nicholas Winton canceled a skiing holiday and traveled instead to Prague, where thousands of Jewish refugee families were living in...
In a small town nestled among rolling hills, there lived a woman named Maria. Known for her endless kindness, she ran a modest bakery that filled the streets with the comforting aroma of freshly baked bread. Each morning, Maria would...
In February 1813, Elizabeth Fry stepped through the iron gates of London's Newgate Prison and into a scene that would change her life. Three hundred...
In 2010, after the earthquake leveled Port-au-Prince, a American nurse named Sarah Collins arrived at a makeshift clinic built from tarps and scrap wood. Generators...
On the western tip of Tenerife, where the Atlantic crashes against volcanic cliffs, stands the Faro de Teno — a lighthouse that has guided sailors...
In 2019, a reporter from the *Dallas Morning News* profiled a kindergarten teacher named Elena Vargas at Rusk Elementary, one of the lowest-funded schools in...
For nearly sixty years, the ruins of Dresden's Frauenkirche stood as a blackened heap in the center of the city — a wound left open...
In the family courthouse of Jefferson County, Alabama, a retired schoolteacher named Dorothy Vance sits on a wooden bench every Tuesday morning. She is a...
At the Carolina Raptor Center in Charlotte, North Carolina, volunteers learn a counterintuitive rule on their first day: when a wounded hawk arrives — talons...
For twenty years, the congregation of First Baptist in Baton Rouge prided themselves on their Wednesday night prayer meetings. They fasted twice a month, sang...
On Christmas Eve, 1914, along the muddy trenches near Ypres, Belgium, German soldiers began placing candles on small trees above their parapets. Then came the...
For decades, the churches of 18th-century England were filled every Sunday. Hymns rose from polished pews. Prayers were offered with eloquent precision. The liturgy was...
When Hurricane Harvey stalled over Houston in August 2017, Marcus and Elena Ruiz climbed to their second floor on Tidwell Road and waited. They had...
In 1933, Dorothy Day stood in a New York City breadline — not to observe, but to serve. A former journalist and recent Catholic convert,...
For eleven years, Grace Community Church in Tulsa held a weekly prayer breakfast every Wednesday at 6 a.m. They sang beautifully. They fasted during Lent...
In 2014, when Ebola swept through Liberia and the world recoiled in fear, a Liberian nurse named Salome Karwah did something remarkably simple. She held...