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The Washing Machines at Grace Point on Tuesday Nights

Every Sunday morning, the congregation at Grace Point Church in Long Beach, California, sang worship songs with hands raised and voices strong. But pastor Chris...

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The Quaker Who Entered Newgate

In 1813, Elizabeth Fry walked through the iron gates of London's Newgate Prison and into a scene that made seasoned guards look away. Three hundred...

Isaiah 42:1-9Universal

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Singing Through the Storm

In January 1736, the ship Simmonds pitched violently in the North Atlantic as a winter gale tore its mainsail to shreds. Seawater poured across the...

Isaiah 12:2-6Universal

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The Song Beneath the Live Oaks

On New Year's Day, 1863, thousands of formerly enslaved men, women, and children gathered at Camp Saxton near Beaufort, South Carolina. Ancient live oaks trailed...

Isaiah 52:7-10Universal

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When the Heavens Split Over Wales

In the autumn of 1904, a twenty-six-year-old Welsh coal miner named Evan Roberts could barely sleep. For thirteen years he had prayed the same desperate...

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The Garden on Magnolia Street

In 2019, a vacant lot on Magnolia Street in Newark, New Jersey, was nothing but cracked concrete, broken glass, and waist-high weeds. Neighbors walked past...

Isaiah 35:1-10Universal

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Kagawa's Christmas in the Kobe Slums

On Christmas Day, 1909, a twenty-one-year-old seminary student named Toyohiko Kagawa walked into the Shinkawa slums of Kobe, Japan — six square blocks where fifteen...

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The Quaker Who Read to Prisoners

In 1813, Elizabeth Fry stepped through the iron gates of London's Newgate Prison and found three hundred women and children crammed into two wards. The...

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The Coach Who Limped Every Mile

In 2019, cross-country coach Brad Holloway of Shelbyville, Indiana, watched his runner Jenna collapse at mile two of the state qualifier. She had trained all...

Isaiah 63:7-9Universal

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Isaiah 7:10-14; 8:10Universal

The Son Who Trusted What His Father Refused

In 735 BC, King Ahaz stood in Jerusalem trembling. Two enemy armies were marching toward his gates. God, through the prophet Isaiah, offered him a...

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The Hand That Learned to Open

When Marcus Chen arrived at a rehabilitation center in Portland after his stroke, his left hand was curled into a tight fist. The neurologist warned...

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Toyohiko Kagawa and the Shinkawa Slums

In December 1909, a twenty-one-year-old Japanese seminary student named Toyohiko Kagawa walked into the Shinkawa slums of Kobe — a six-block stretch of open sewers,...

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The Sound Like the Sea in Pyongyang

In January 1907, fifteen hundred Korean Christians gathered at Jangdaehyeon Church in Pyongyang for a week of Bible study. The meetings began quietly — hymns,...

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The Refrigerator on Marconi Avenue

Every Sunday morning, the congregation at Grace Fellowship in Sacramento sang about God's provision. They tithed faithfully, attended Wednesday night Bible study, and fasted during...

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The Potter's Wheel on Main Street

In downtown Asheville, North Carolina, a ceramics studio called Earth and Fire offers a class they call "Second Chances." Instructor Maria Gonzalez takes pieces that...

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Isaiah 1:1, 10-20Universal

When the Kitchen Is Spotless but the Family Is Starving

Every Sunday morning, Margaret Chen arrived early at Grace Community Church in Naperville, Illinois. She arranged the altar flowers just so, ironed the communion linens...

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The Sunday School Lesson That Changed Everything

In March 1841, a young Boston schoolteacher named Dorothea Dix agreed to teach a Sunday school class at the East Cambridge jail. What she found...

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The Reclaim Barrel

At a ceramics studio in Decatur, Georgia, potter Ellen Marsh keeps a five-gallon bucket by her wheel she calls "the reclaim barrel." It's where failed...

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The Master Potter of Staffordshire

In the 1760s, Josiah Wedgwood walked the factory floors of his Etruria Works in Staffordshire, England, with a wooden cane in one hand and an...

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The Man Who Taught the Dust to Bloom

In April 1935, Hugh Hammond Bennett stood before a skeptical United States Senate, pleading for a radical new approach to saving America's ravaged Great Plains....

Isaiah 43:16-21Universal

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The Luthier on Elm Street

In a cluttered workshop on Elm Street in Portland, Oregon, a luthier named Marco Benedetti spends his days with instruments other repair shops would refuse....

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The Garden on Maple Street

For fifteen years, Ruth Halloran poured herself into the community garden on Maple Street in southeast Portland. She hauled in twelve tons of composted soil...

Isaiah 5:1-7Universal

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Isaiah 1:1, 10-20Universal

Bartolomé de las Casas and the Sermon He Could Not Preach

In 1514, a Spanish priest named Bartolomé de las Casas sat in his study on the island of Cuba, preparing a Pentecost sermon for his...

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