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In the powerful film *12 Years a Slave*, we meet Solomon Northup, a free Black man living in New York, whose life is shattered when he is kidnapped and sold into slavery. Picture him, once a proud violinist, now forced...
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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 December 1909, a twenty-one-year-old Japanese seminary student named Toyohiko Kagawa walked into the Shinkawa slums of Kobe — a six-block stretch of open sewers,...
At a ceramics studio in Decatur, Georgia, potter Ellen Marsh keeps a five-gallon bucket by her wheel she calls "the reclaim barrel." It's where failed...
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 a cluttered workshop on Elm Street in Portland, Oregon, a luthier named Marco Benedetti spends his days with instruments other repair shops would refuse....
In April 1935, Hugh Hammond Bennett stood before a skeptical United States Senate, pleading for a radical new approach to saving America's ravaged Great Plains....
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 1787, the churches of Bristol, England, were magnificent. Their choirs sang anthems that echoed off vaulted stone ceilings. Their congregations filled polished pews every...
In the 1760s, Josiah Wedgwood walked the factory floors of his Etruria Works in Staffordshire, England, with a wooden cane in one hand and an...
In Pixar's beloved film *Up*, we meet Carl and Ellie, a spirited couple whose dreams of adventure are beautifully encapsulated in their shared aspiration to reach Paradise Falls. With each passing year, their hopes are tested by the unpredictability of...
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...
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...
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 dim light of a flickering campfire, deep in the woods of Maryland, Harriet Tubman knelt down, her heart racing, as she whispered a prayer for courage. Around her, the silence of the night was punctuated only by the...
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...
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.
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...
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.
First, Jerusalem—despoiled by enemies, forsaken for generations, a city "which no man seeketh after"—shall be restored to glory.
"When you pass through waters—WHEN, not if—God is WITH you! The river won't sweep you away! The fire won't burn you! This is SUPERNATURAL protection! Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego walked through fire and didn't even smell like smoke! That's your promise!" — Joyce Meyer.
"'He cares for you'—and the 'He' is the crucified and risen Christ. On the cross, He took our cares, our sins, our death. We cast our anxieties on the One who has already borne the ultimate burden. In Christ, our...
"Wait on God and receive FRESH power! The Holy Spirit renews our strength—not the same old energy but NEW strength from on high! Mount up with wings like eagles—that's supernatural flight! Expect the Spirit to lift you above every circumstance!" — Smith Wigglesworth.