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137 illustrations — Vivid stories and real-world analogies for sermon use
In 1789, William Wilberforce stood before the British Parliament and delivered a three-and-a-half-hour speech calling for the abolition of the slave trade. The vote failed....
On the Outer Banks of North Carolina, the Cape Hatteras Lighthouse has thrown its beam across the Atlantic since 1870. Sailors caught in the treacherous...
In the midst of turbulent political waters, we might feel like sailors battling a storm at sea. Imagine a small boat, tossed by waves, with a diverse crew aboard—each member representing a different perspective, each voice vying for attention as...
On August 5, 2011, NASA launched the Juno spacecraft on a five-year journey to Jupiter. When it finally slipped into orbit, scientists discovered something remarkable...
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...
When NASA released the first deep-field images from the James Webb Space Telescope in July 2022, astronomer Jane Rigby stood at the podium in Greenbelt,...
For twenty-two winters, Ruth Abernathy left a kerosene lamp burning in the front window of her farmhouse outside Galena, Kansas. Not because she expected anyone....
Margaret Chen kept a wooden recipe box on her kitchen counter in Portland, Oregon — a gift from her grandmother. Inside were over two hundred...
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...
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,...
George Müller of Bristol kept meticulous records. Over sixty years of caring for more than ten thousand orphans in Victorian England, he documented over fifty...
Margaret Rowe spent forty-one years climbing the seventy-six steps of the Cape Bonavista lighthouse on Newfoundland's eastern coast. Every evening at dusk, without exception, she...
In 2012, Tom Krueger planted three hundred Honeycrisp apple trees on his small orchard outside Bayfield, Wisconsin. His neighbors were already harvesting established varieties and...
In nineteenth-century Bristol, England, George Müller opened his orphanages with nothing but prayer and an unshakable conviction about the character of God. One morning in...
Every September, Helen Matsuda drove her grandchildren out to the old orchard on Maple Ridge Road outside Wenatchee, Washington. The trees had been planted by...
In 1928, a farmer outside Topeka, Kansas, purchased a brand-new John Deere tractor — the finest machine money could buy. He parked it in his...
A mechanic in Tulsa named Ray Garfield kept a 1967 Mustang in his garage for twenty-three years. He polished the chrome every Saturday. He kept...
When astronauts aboard the International Space Station orbit Earth, they witness something that reshapes how they understand light and darkness. From the ground, we watch...
In 2012, Tom Neuhaus nearly lost everything. His family had farmed six hundred acres outside Salina, Kansas, for three generations, and that summer the worst...
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 a physics lab at the University of Chicago, Dr. Keiko Nakamura would begin each semester the same way. She held a glass prism up...
In 1838, George Müller sat at a long wooden table in his Bristol orphanage with three hundred children. The plates were empty. The cupboards held...
Every March, Margaret Calloway of Boone County, Kentucky, set her worn Farmer's Almanac on the kitchen windowsill and planned her garden by the sun. She...
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