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Isaiah Stories & Illustrations

354 illustrations — Vivid stories and real-world analogies for sermon use

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The Congregation That Opened Its Doors on a Monday

For years, Grace Community Church in Dalton, Georgia, held a January prayer-and-fasting week. Members skipped meals, filled the sanctuary for midday devotions, and posted scripture...

Isaiah 58:1-12Universal

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Pandita Ramabai and the Famine Children of Pune

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...

Isaiah 58:1-12Universal

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When the Soup Kitchen Closed on Sundays

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...

Isaiah 1:1, 10-20Universal

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The Skin Graft

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...

Isaiah 53:5Universal

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The Food Pantry That Tore Down Its Wall

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,...

Isaiah 58:1-12Universal

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Shaped in the Dark

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 —...

Isaiah 49:1-6Universal

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The Summer the Wells Ran Dry

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...

Isaiah 64:1-9Universal

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The Garden Behind the Condemned House

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...

Isaiah 58:1-12Universal

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The Vacant Lot on Brewster Avenue

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...

Isaiah 55:10-13Universal

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John Knox at the Window

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...

Isaiah 64:1-9Universal

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The Empty Pews on MLK Boulevard

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...

Isaiah 58:1-12Universal

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The Name on the Jersey

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...

Isaiah 62:1-5Universal

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Dorothy Day and the Bread Line on Mott Street

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...

Isaiah 58:1-12Universal

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Called Before She Knew It

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...

Isaiah 49:1-6Universal

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The King Who Did Not Want to Speak

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...

Isaiah 7:10-16Universal

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The Seamstress of Calais

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...

Isaiah 58:1-12Universal

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The Hand She Never Expected to Hold

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....

Isaiah 43:16-21Universal

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The Grocery Run on Ash Wednesday

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,...

Isaiah 58:1-12Universal

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The Vineyard on Elm Street

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...

Isaiah 5:1-7Universal

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The Surgeon's Hands

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...

Isaiah 53:5Universal

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The Teacher Who Kept Showing Up

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...

Isaiah 50:4-9aUniversal

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The Water Main on Vine Street

In 2019, a church in Cincinnati held a forty-day prayer and fasting campaign. They filled the sanctuary three nights a week, sang until their voices...

Isaiah 58:1-12Universal

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Finding God in Digital Discipleship

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...

Isaiah 58:6-7Arminian/Wesleyan

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Finding God in Sustainability & Creation Care

In the heart of a bustling city, where concrete towers scrape the sky and the hum of traffic fills the air, a small community garden thrived against all odds. This garden, tended by families from diverse backgrounds, became a sanctuary...

Isaiah 58:6-7Traditional