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Isaiah Stories & Illustrations

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

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The Wednesday Night Fast on Carver Street

For three years, the members of Mount Olive Baptist Church in Memphis held a Wednesday night fast. They gathered in their sanctuary, sang worship songs...

Isaiah 58:1-12Universal

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The Potter's Wheel on Magnolia Street

Every Saturday morning, ceramic artist Elena Vargas opens her studio on Magnolia Street in San Antonio to teach free classes to teenagers from the surrounding...

Isaiah 64:1-9Universal

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Clarence Jordan and the Red Clay of Koinonia

In 1942, Clarence Jordan — a Baptist minister with a doctorate in Greek New Testament — drove his family into the red clay countryside outside...

Isaiah 58:1-12Universal

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Sojourner Truth and the God Who Renames

In 1843, a woman named Isabella Baumfree walked out of New York City with nothing but a pillowcase of belongings and a fierce conviction that...

Isaiah 62:1-5Universal

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John Woolman's Undyed Coat

In the 1750s, a prosperous New Jersey shopkeeper named John Woolman closed his ledger book, stepped out from behind his counter, and began walking away...

Isaiah 58:1-12Universal

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Kagawa's Six-Foot Room

In 1909, a young Japanese seminary student named Toyohiko Kagawa did something his professors could not understand. He left his comfortable dormitory in Kobe and...

Isaiah 58:1-12Universal

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The Contractor Who Came Back to Ninth Ward

When Earl Thibodaux retired from thirty-two years of commercial construction in Baton Rouge, his wife expected him to finally sit still. Instead, Earl loaded his...

Isaiah 58:1-12Universal

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The Fast That Walked Outside

Every January, First Community Church in Decatur, Georgia, held a three-day prayer and fasting retreat. Members gathered in the fellowship hall, sang worship songs, journaled,...

Isaiah 58:1-12Universal

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The Theologian Who Moved Into the Slums

In 1909, twenty-one-year-old Toyohiko Kagawa walked out of his seminary dormitory in Kobe, Japan, and moved into a six-foot-by-six-foot shack in the Shinkawa slums —...

Isaiah 58:1-12Universal

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The Sewing Machines at Thistle Farms on Charlotte Avenue

Every Sunday morning, Becca Stevens preached from the pulpit at St. Augustine's Chapel in Nashville. Every Monday morning, she unlocked the doors of Thistle Farms,...

Isaiah 58:1-12Universal

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Clean Water on Cypress Street

Every January, Grace Fellowship in south Memphis held a twenty-four-hour prayer and fasting vigil. The sanctuary would fill with worship music, the smell of candles,...

Isaiah 58:1-12Universal

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The Power of Gentleness - Quote

Hannah, a woman of deep anguish, understood the weight of gentleness in a world that often prizes strength. When she poured out her heart to God at Shiloh, her quiet cries were a fierce testament to her faith. In her...

Isaiah 40:31Eastern Orthodox

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The Concrete Crews of Lawndale

In 1978, Coach Wayne Gordon moved into North Lawndale on Chicago's West Side — not to commute in for weekend charity, but to stay. The...

Isaiah 58:1-12Universal

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Lessons from Wisdom - Biblical Analogy

There once was a wise old woman in a small community who was known for her deep faith and unshakeable strength. Every Sunday, she would sit under the great oak tree in her yard, a tree that had weathered many...

Isaiah 40:31Christocentric

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The Contractor Who Read Isaiah on a Job Site

Marcus DeLeon had been a faithful church member for twenty years — never missed a Sunday, tithed to the dollar, fasted every Lent. Then one...

Isaiah 58:1-12Universal

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The Arrow in the Quiver

In 2009, a young Haitian-American woman named Michaëlle Jean stood before the United Nations, largely unknown to the global stage. For years she had labored...

Isaiah 49:1-7Universal

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Flour-Dusted Justice

Father Gregory Boyle didn't march into East Los Angeles with a megaphone. He opened a bakery. For over thirty years now, Homeboy Industries has quietly...

Isaiah 42:1-9Universal

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Fourteen Ounces of Hope

In the neonatal unit at Vanderbilt Children's Hospital, a baby born at twenty-three weeks weighs barely fourteen ounces. Her skin is translucent. Her lungs strain...

Isaiah 42:1-9Universal

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The Long Defeat of William Wilberforce

In 1787, a twenty-seven-year-old member of Parliament sat at his desk in Old Palace Yard, London, and scratched two sentences into his journal: "God Almighty...

Isaiah 49:1-7Universal

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Millard Fuller's Million-Dollar Repentance

In 1965, Millard Fuller was a thirty-year-old millionaire in Montgomery, Alabama, with a law practice, a Lincoln Continental, and a marriage falling apart. His wife...

Isaiah 58:1-12Universal

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The Fast That Maria Kept

Every Lent, Maria Dominguez gave up coffee, chocolate, and social media. She marked each day of self-denial on a calendar taped to her refrigerator. She...

Isaiah 58:1-12Universal

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The Morning After Coventry

On November 15, 1940, Provost Richard Howard picked his way through the smoldering ruins of Coventry Cathedral. German bombers had reduced the 600-year-old sanctuary to...

Isaiah 60:1-6Universal

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The Quiet Persistence of William Wilberforce

For twenty years, William Wilberforce rose in the British Parliament and introduced the same bill to abolish the slave trade. Twenty years. He was mocked,...

Isaiah 42:1-9Universal

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The Parlor Maid in God's Quiver

Gladys Aylward stood barely five feet tall, a parlor maid from Edmonton, London, with no university degree and no missionary board willing to send her....

Isaiah 49:1-6Universal