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137 illustrations — Vivid stories and real-world analogies for sermon use
Margaret Holloway made the best chicken casserole in all of Decatur, Georgia. Everyone at First Community Church said so. When the Nguyen family lost their...
Every year, the National Fire Protection Association reports that three out of five home fire deaths occur in houses where smoke detectors were either missing...
In neonatal intensive care units, doctors have long prescribed something remarkably low-tech for premature babies: kangaroo care — holding the infant skin-to-skin against a parent's...
Margaret Chen kept her Red Cross first aid manual on the kitchen shelf between a cookbook and a potted basil plant. She had taken the...
Margaret Chen kept a wooden box on her kitchen counter in Portland, Oregon, filled with over two hundred recipe cards written in her grandmother's careful...
Every morning, the slip of paper sat next to the coffee maker. Dr. Sarah Chen at the Cleveland Clinic had written it out carefully —...
Margaret Chen sat in her doctor's office in Portland last March, listening carefully as Dr. Patel explained her diagnosis. High blood pressure — manageable, but...
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...
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...
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...
In Israel, two bodies of water are fed by the same river, yet they could not be more different. The Sea of Galilee receives the...
Margaret Chen had been praying for her neighbor Dorothy all winter. Every Sunday she'd bow her head at First Baptist on Elm Street and whisper,...
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...
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...
Every home has both a thermometer and a thermostat, but they serve fundamentally different purposes. A thermometer reads the temperature. It registers the heat, displays...
In a university physics lab, one of the first principles students learn is the definition of work. It surprises most of them. In physics, work...
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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