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221 illustrations — Vivid stories and real-world analogies for sermon use
On April 14, 1935, the residents of Boise City, Oklahoma, watched the horizon disappear. A wall of black dust three thousand feet high rolled across...
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When Amanda Gorman was a child growing up in Los Angeles, she struggled with a speech impediment that made the letter "R" nearly impossible. She...
In 1834, when the British Emancipation Act took effect across the Caribbean, a formerly enslaved man named James Williams in Jamaica reportedly wept not because...
In 1979, Václav Havel sat in a Prague prison cell, convicted for the crime of speaking truth under communist rule. Czechoslovakia had endured decades of...
When Ben Carson was thirteen years old, he was the worst student in his fifth-grade class at Higgins Elementary in Detroit. His classmates called him...
In 1769, Josiah Wedgwood limped through his pottery works in Burslem, Staffordshire, leaning on his wooden leg, inspecting every piece that came off the wheels....
Josiah Wedgwood opened his first pottery works in Burslem, Staffordshire, in 1759. He became the most celebrated potter in English history — but what made...
In 1943, Eric Liddell — the Scottish sprinter whose Olympic gold medal in Paris had made him a household name — found himself behind the...
On the morning of February 14, 1945, the Frauenkirche in Dresden lay in ruins. Allied firebombing had collapsed the great baroque dome, reducing one of...
In September 1941, German forces encircled Leningrad and began a siege that would last 872 days. Inside the starving city, a small group of scientists...
When Romanian pastor Richard Wurmbrand was dragged into a Communist prison cell in 1948, his captors stripped him of everything — his coat, his shoes,...
In 2018, when the Camp Fire tore through Paradise, California, school bus driver Kevin McKay refused to abandon his route. With flames closing in on...
In 2019, seventeen-year-old Greta Thunberg sat in a chair far too large for her small frame, facing a room full of seasoned politicians in the...
In 1780, William Wilberforce won his seat in the British Parliament at just twenty-one years old. By his own admission, he was a lightweight —...
Charles Haddon Spurgeon was nineteen years old when the deacons of New Park Street Chapel in London invited him to become their pastor in 1854....
In 1786, a twenty-five-year-old cobbler named William Carey stood before a gathering of seasoned Baptist ministers in Northampton, England. He posed a simple question: Did...
In August 2005, Hurricane Katrina swallowed the Lower Ninth Ward of New Orleans whole. When the waters finally receded, Robert Green came back to find...
In 1960, the Aral Sea straddled the border of Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan as the fourth-largest lake on earth. Fishing boats crowded its ports. Children swam...
In 2009, Detroit was a city the world had written off. Factories stood hollow. Entire neighborhoods lay abandoned, with houses selling for a dollar. Financial...
When Amanda Gorman was a child in Los Angeles, she could barely get through a sentence. A speech impediment made the letter R nearly impossible...
For eleven years, the corner lot at Montford and Chestnut in Asheville, North Carolina sat empty. The textile mill that once anchored the neighborhood had...
In the summer of 1939, Dietrich Bonhoeffer sat in a New York City apartment with a ticket to safety and a heart splitting in two....
In 1838, George Müller sat at a breakfast table in Bristol, England, with three hundred orphans and not a single crumb of food in the...
In the winter of 1854, a nineteen-year-old walked into New Park Street Chapel in Southwark, London, and stepped behind a pulpit that had intimidated seasoned...