Jeremiah Stories &amp; Illustrations

Jeremiah 29:1, 4-7Universal

The Pharmacist Who Planted Anyway

When Mithat Isik arrived in Altenburg, Germany, as a Syrian refugee in 2015, he had every reason to hold back. He was a trained pharmacist...

Buying the House on Detroit's Hardest Block

In 2009, a Detroit schoolteacher named John George did something his neighbors called foolish. While families fled the city by the thousands, while foreclosure signs...

Jeremiah 18:1-11Universal

The Potter of Burslem

Josiah Wedgwood opened his first pottery works in Burslem, Staffordshire, in 1759. He became the most celebrated potter in English history — but what made...

Jeremiah 29:1, 4-7Universal

The Olympic Champion Who Chose to Serve in Captivity

In 1943, Eric Liddell — the Scottish sprinter whose Olympic gold medal in Paris had made him a household name — found himself behind the...

Jeremiah 33:14-16Universal

The Blackened Stones of Dresden

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...

Jeremiah 31:27-34Universal

The Prisoner Who Carried No Bible

When Romanian pastor Richard Wurmbrand was dragged into a Communist prison cell in 1948, his captors stripped him of everything — his coat, his shoes,...

The Shepherd Who Came Back for Them

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...

Jeremiah 23:1-6Universal

The Teenager Who Spoke Before Congress

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...

The Seed Bank That Starved Men Refused to Eat

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...

The Cobbler Who Refused to Sit Down

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...

Buying the House on Flood Street

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...

Jeremiah 4:11-12, 22-28Universal

The Sea That Became a Desert

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...

Jeremiah 33:14-16Universal

The Playwright Who Believed in a City Reborn

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...

The Surgeon Who Almost Wasn't

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...

The Young Parliamentarian Who Changed a Nation

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 —...

Buying a House in Detroit

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...

Jeremiah 29:11Traditional

Lessons from Compassion - Quote

There once was a small fishing village nestled along a rugged coastline, where storms frequently battered the shores. The fishermen of this village had learned to respect the power of the sea, and every evening as the sun dipped below...

The Boy Preacher of Southwark

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...

The Girl Who Couldn't Say Her R's

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...