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20 illustrations for sermon preparation
In 1947, Corrie ten Boom stood in a church basement in Munich, face to face with a man she recognized instantly — a former guard...
In the mountains of rural Japan, the Asian giant hornet — nearly two inches long with mandibles that can decapitate a bee in a single...
In 1521, Martin Luther was hiding in Wartburg Castle, spirited away by friends after his bold stand at the Diet of Worms. For months he...
In April 1521, Martin Luther stood before Emperor Charles V in the great hall at Worms, Germany. Stacked on a table beside him lay his...
In 1661, John Bunyan sat in a cold Bedford jail cell with a simple offer on the table: stop preaching, and walk free. The magistrates...
In August 2003, a wildfire swept through the San Bernardino Mountains of Southern California, devouring everything in its path. Veteran firefighter Marco Reyes stood with...
In 2019, a family in rural Tennessee installed a security system after a string of neighborhood break-ins. Motion sensors, cameras, a loud alarm — the...
In 1945, Soviet secret police arrested Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn and sentenced him to eight years in the labor camps. The gulag was engineered to break men...
In 1868, German physician Carl Wunderlich published a landmark study establishing 98.6 degrees Fahrenheit as the baseline for human body temperature. What he also documented...
In rural Tennessee, a sheep farmer named Dale Hutchins kept a Great Pyrenees named Boaz to guard his flock. For three years, coyotes had picked...
On June 30, 2013, nineteen members of the Granite Mountain Hotshots deployed their fire shelters on a ridge near Yarnell, Arizona. They were some of...
In 2019, a family camping in Glacier National Park woke to the sound of something heavy pushing against their bear canister. The father, Greg Walton,...
In 2019, Kyle Burgess was jogging a trail near Slate Canyon, Utah, when a female cougar stepped onto the path ahead of him. Every instinct...
In 2004, ranger Jim Hamm was hiking with his wife near Prairie Creek Redwoods State Park in Northern California when a mountain lion attacked. Every...
In 2019, hiker Kyle Burgess was jogging a stretch of the Pacific Crest Trail near Slate Canyon, Utah, when a cougar began stalking him. For...
Marcus Thompson had coached football at Eastside High for eleven years, and every Friday night brought the same unwelcome visitors. By the fourth quarter, a...
Marcus Chen had been sober for fourteen months when the craving hit him in the parking lot of a Houston grocery store. It was a...
In the hill country outside Nazareth, shepherds knew a simple truth about predators: a wolf will test a flock before it attacks. It circles. It...
Tom Hernandez ran cattle on four hundred acres outside Marfa, Texas. He told his new ranch hand something on the first day that the young...
Every building with a lightning rod has a secret most people notice: the grounding wire. That thick copper cable runs from the rod on the...
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