Illustrations from Isaiah

The Scholar Who Gathered the Forgotten Girls

In 1889, Pandita Ramabai opened the doors of Sharada Sadan in Bombay — a shelter for child widows whom Indian society had discarded. These were...

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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...

Isaiah 64:1-9Universal

Basil's City of Mercy Outside Caesarea

In 369 AD, a devastating famine swept through Cappadocia. Bishop Basil of Caesarea watched the wealthy of his city continue their feasting while peasants collapsed...

The Archbishop Who Would Not Be Silent

On February 16, 1977, Anglican Archbishop Janani Luwum walked into Ugandan President Idi Amin's conference hall in Kampala, knowing he might not walk out. For...

Isaiah 50:4-9aUniversal

Jefferson's Fruitless Vines

Thomas Jefferson spent over thirty years trying to cultivate European wine grapes at Monticello. Beginning in 1773, he imported the finest *Vitis vinifera* cuttings from...

Isaiah 5:1-7Universal

The Beautiful Feet of Galveston

On June 19, 1865, Union Major General Gordon Granger stepped onto the balcony of Ashton Villa in Galveston, Texas, and read aloud General Order No....

Isaiah 52:7-10Universal

Fifty Years of Silence

In December 1938, a twenty-nine-year-old London stockbroker named Nicholas Winton visited Prague and encountered something that would alter the course of his life — hundreds...

The Cobbler Who Became a Light to the Nations

In 1786, a young cobbler named William Carey stood before a gathering of Baptist ministers in Northampton, England, and suggested that Christians had an obligation...

Isaiah 49:1-7Universal

The Peace Nobody Requested

On Christmas Eve, 1914, along the muddy trenches near Ypres, Belgium, German soldiers began placing candles on small trees above their parapets. Then came the...

Isaiah 7:10-16Universal

Isaiah 1:1, 10-20Universal

William Wilberforce and the Pews That Finally Meant Something

For decades, the churches of 18th-century England were filled every Sunday. Hymns rose from polished pews. Prayers were offered with eloquent precision. The liturgy was...

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Risen: Prophecy Fulfilled in History - Dispensational (Isaiah 53)

Imagine the bustling streets of Jerusalem, where the sun hangs low, casting golden rays upon the faces of those who have gathered to celebrate the Passover. Among them, we meet Clavius, a hardened Roman tribune, tasked with maintaining order amidst...

Isaiah 53Dispensationalprophecyliteral fulfillment

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The Golden Cross of Dresden

For nearly sixty years, the ruins of Dresden's Frauenkirche stood as a blackened heap in the center of the city — a wound left open...

Isaiah 60:1-6Universal

Dorothy Day's Uncomfortable Fast

In 1933, Dorothy Day stood in a New York City breadline — not to observe, but to serve. A former journalist and recent Catholic convert,...

Dorothy Day and the Soup Line on Mott Street

In 1933, Dorothy Day stood in a cramped storefront at 436 East Mott Street in Manhattan, ladling soup into chipped bowls. She was a journalist,...

The Nurse Who Kept the Night Watch

In 2014, when Ebola swept through Liberia and the world recoiled in fear, a Liberian nurse named Salome Karwah did something remarkably simple. She held...

When the Lights Came Back to Aleppo

In December 2016, after four years of relentless bombardment, the ancient city of Aleppo fell into an eerie silence. Entire neighborhoods sat in total darkness...

Isaiah 60:1-6Universal

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

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...

The Garden Behind First Baptist

For twenty years, the congregation of First Baptist in Baton Rouge prided themselves on their Wednesday night prayer meetings. They fasted twice a month, sang...

The Falconer's Quiet Hands

At the Carolina Raptor Center in Charlotte, North Carolina, volunteers learn a counterintuitive rule on their first day: when a wounded hawk arrives — talons...

The River That Runs Through Centralia

In 1962, a coal fire ignited beneath Centralia, Pennsylvania — a small mining town of over a thousand residents. For decades, toxic smoke seeped through...

Isaiah 43:16-21Universal

The Librarian of Helmand Province

In 2012, a young Afghan woman named Sakena Yacoobi quietly opened a school in a basement in Herat. No banners. No press conferences. No armed...