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353 illustrations — Vivid stories and real-world analogies for sermon use
In 1896, famine swept across western India, leaving thousands of child widows and orphans starving along the roads of Maharashtra. Pandita Ramabai, a Sanskrit scholar...
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For fifteen years, Grace Community Church in Wichita, Kansas ran a Thursday night soup kitchen that fed over two hundred people each week. Volunteers wore...
For eleven years, First Baptist of Decatur, Georgia, ran its food pantry from a side entrance. Families lined up in the alley behind the church,...
In 1970, a three-year-old boy named Glen Cork fell into a campfire at a family gathering in rural Kentucky. Third-degree burns covered forty percent of...
In the summer of 2012, farmers across southwest Kansas watched their fields turn to powder. Daryl Hestand, a third-generation wheat grower outside of Sublette, walked...
In our fast-paced, often chaotic world, the concept of angels can feel distant, like a beautiful painting hanging in a museum—admired but not truly engaged with. Yet, as we delve into our everyday lives, we begin to see these heavenly...
For eleven years, the corner of Brewster and Fifth in Detroit's Brightmoor neighborhood was a scar — broken concrete, syringes, knee-high weeds choking out anything...
For twelve years, Grace Community Church in Durham, North Carolina, held an annual "Justice Sunday" every January. They sang spirituals, read from the prophets, and...
In 2019, a small congregation in Flint, Michigan, had been holding weekly prayer vigils about the water crisis for nearly four years. They fasted. They...
In the autumn of 1555, John Knox knelt by a window in Edinburgh, his forehead pressed against cold stone, and prayed words that those outside...
In 2019, a foster care organization in Phoenix called Foster Arizona hosted an event they named "Draft Day." Modeled after the NFL draft, families who...
During the Great Depression, Dorothy Day stood on Mott Street in Lower Manhattan, ladling soup to a line that stretched around the block. She had...
In 2019, a journalism student named Darnella Frazier was walking her nine-year-old cousin to Cup Foods, a corner store in Minneapolis. She had no grand...
In the autumn of 1939, King George VI sat in Buckingham Palace facing a microphone he dreaded. Britain had just declared war on Germany. The...
In 2015, when thousands of refugees huddled in the mud of the Calais "Jungle" camp in northern France, local churches organized prayer vigils. They sang...
In the ever-changing landscape of our digital age, the challenge of Digital Discipleship can often feel overwhelming, much like the Israelites navigating the wilderness. Imagine a young woman named Sarah, who recently moved to a bustling city. Alone in her...
In 1947, Corrie ten Boom stood in a church basement in Munich, having just spoken about God's forgiveness to a crowd of defeated, hollow-eyed Germans....
In 2010, twenty-year-old Katie Davis left her comfortable life in Brentwood, Tennessee, and moved to Jinja, Uganda. She had felt the tug since childhood —...
In 2019, Marcus Coleman bought a neglected lot on Elm Street in Detroit and poured everything into it. He tested the soil, hauled away rocks...
For three years, the women's Bible study at Redeemer Church in Tulsa fasted every Wednesday during Lent. They skipped lunch, gathered in the fellowship hall,...
In 2019, a high school English teacher in Nashville named Clara Johnson noticed a student named Marcus sitting in the back row, hood up, headphones...
In 2018, a middle school teacher named Clara Johnson in south Chicago made a quiet decision that would cost her. She started arriving at school...
In 1813, Elizabeth Fry stepped through the iron gates of Newgate Prison in London and found nearly three hundred women and children crammed into two...
Dr. Elena Vasquez had performed over three thousand surgeries at Chicago's Cook County Hospital, but the one she remembers most happened on a Tuesday in...