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353 illustrations — Vivid stories and real-world analogies for sermon use
In February 1944, the Gestapo raided the ten Boom home in Haarlem, Holland, arresting the entire family for harboring Jewish refugees. Corrie ten Boom's elderly...
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In the neonatal intensive care unit at Vanderbilt Children's Hospital, nurse Maria Gonzalez starts every shift the same way. She dims the overhead lights. She...
In 1846, as the Irish Potato Famine tightened its grip, Parliament debated policy and churches held solemn days of prayer and fasting. Meanwhile, a tiny...
On an overcast morning, the windows of a farmhouse kitchen look perfectly clean. The family eats breakfast, pours coffee, glances outside at the gray sky...
In 1514, the Spanish priest Bartolomé de las Casas stood before his congregation on the island of Hispaniola preparing a Pentecost sermon. The chapel was...
In 1787, the churches of Bristol, England, were magnificent. Their choirs sang anthems that echoed off vaulted stone ceilings. Their congregations filled polished pews every...
When a tuning fork is struck against a hard surface, it vibrates at exactly 440 hertz — the note A. Place it near a piano...
In 1913, a young British missionary named Arthur Banks arrived in the Belgian Congo, where King Leopold's brutal rubber trade had left entire villages shattered....
In January 2019, during the polar vortex that dropped temperatures to thirty below in Detroit, a group of women from New Bethel Church realized something...
In January 2020, the small town of Cobargo, New South Wales, was surrounded by fire. For weeks, smoke had replaced the sky. Eucalyptus leaves curled...
Every Sunday morning, First Avenue Community Church spent four hundred dollars on fresh flowers for the sanctuary. The arrangements were stunning — birds of paradise,...
In the burn unit at Galveston's Shriners Hospital, surgeons perform a procedure that puzzles anyone seeing it for the first time. To heal a child's...
In the early 1980s, a devastating drought turned Burkina Faso's Sahel region into a wasteland. Villages emptied. Crops failed. The earth cracked like old leather...
Dr. Sarah Chen arrived at the makeshift clinic outside Port-au-Prince three days after the earthquake. She had imagined herself ready. She was not. The scale...
The Puritans often didn't see the fruit of their labors in their lifetime. They planted churches, wrote theology, shaped institutions—for future generations. Jonathan Edwards preached the sermons that sparked the Great Awakening, but revivals had been prayed for over decades.
In Gethsemane, Jesus waited on the Father. "Not my will but yours." He could have called angels; He waited. He could have escaped; He stayed. He could have forced a different outcome; He surrendered. This is what waiting on the LORD looks like incarnate.
When Fanny Crosby was six weeks old, a country doctor's careless poultice left her permanently blind. By every measure of nineteenth-century America, her life was...