Jeremiah Stories &amp; Illustrations

Jeremiah 33:14-16Universal

The Vacant Lot on Montford Avenue

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...

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The Two Trees on Maple Street

In 2019, the city of Detroit planted two identical red maple saplings on either side of Woodward Avenue as part of an urban regreening project....

Jeremiah 17:5-10Universal

Jeremiah 18:1-11Universal

Wedgwood's Hammer and the Potter's Second Chance

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....

Jeremiah 8:18-9:1Universal

The Pastor Who Grieved for Germany

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....

The Couple Who Planted an Orchard in Detroit

In 2009, Mark and Olivia Covington stood on Hobart Street in Detroit's east side, surrounded by abandoned lots choked with waist-high weeds and crumbling foundations....

The Death of the Aral Sea

In 1960, the Aral Sea stretched across 26,000 square miles of Central Asia — the fourth-largest lake on earth. Fed by two mighty rivers, the...

Seeds for a City That Was Starving

During the 872-day Siege of Leningrad, as Nazi forces strangled the city and nearly a million civilians starved, a small group of Soviet scientists faced...

Jeremiah 17:5-10Universal

George Müller's Empty Cupboard

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...

The Water They Chose in Flint

In 2014, the city of Flint, Michigan made a decision that seemed pragmatic at the time. For decades, Flint had received clean, tested water from...

The Boy Preacher of London

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....

Jeremiah 1:4-10Universal

Jeremiah 31:27-34Universal

Written on the Heart

In 2019, a grandmother in Louisville, Kentucky named Dorothy Carter sat at her kitchen table teaching her six-year-old grandson, Marcus, to read. Every afternoon, she...

The Field Preacher Who Found the Forgotten Flock

In 1739, the Anglican clergy of Bristol, England, had largely abandoned the coal miners of Kingswood. These workers — their faces blackened with soot, their...

Jeremiah 23:1-6Universal

Jeremiah 29:1, 4-7Universal

The Exiles Who Built a Fire That Warmed the World

In 1722, a small band of Moravian Christians stumbled across the border into Saxony, driven from their homeland in modern-day Czech Republic by relentless persecution....

Jeremiah 29:1, 4-7Universal

The Refugee Who Planted a Garden

When Hawa Abdi arrived in Clarkston, Georgia, in 2016, she wanted to go home. The Somali Bantu refugee missed the red soil of her village,...

The Emperor Who Abandoned the Aqueducts

In 312 AD, Roman engineers completed the Aqua Claudia, one of the most magnificent aqueducts ever built — forty-six miles of precisely graded channels carrying...

Broken Wells in Flint

In 2014, the city of Flint, Michigan switched its water source from the Detroit system — clean, treated, reliable — to the Flint River, a...

Wren's Cathedral in the Ashes

In September 1666, the Great Fire of London consumed thirteen thousand houses, eighty-seven churches, and the medieval St. Paul's Cathedral. The city smoldered for days....

Seeds Stored for a Harvest They Would Never See

In 1941, as German forces encircled Leningrad, the scientists at the Vavilov Institute of Plant Industry faced an unthinkable test. Inside their walls sat one...

Jeremiah 31:27-34Universal

The Grandmother Who Stopped Reading the Recipe

For forty-three years, Maria Cristina Alvarez made her mother's tamales every Christmas Eve in her small kitchen in San Antonio. In the early years, she...

Jeremiah 29:1, 4-7Universal

Planting Tomatoes in a Place You Didn't Choose

When Toyota closed its assembly plant in Georgetown, Kentucky, in 2020 for pandemic retooling, hundreds of temporary workers found themselves relocated to a facility in...

Jeremiah 29:11ChristocentricChristfulfillment

Christ: The Plan Fulfilled - Christocentric (Jeremiah 29:11)

The exiles' hope and future ultimately pointed to Christ. Seventy years later, they returned to rebuild—but the real fulfillment came centuries after, when the One who IS our hope and future arrived. Jesus is God's plan for prospering humanity. He...

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St. John Paul II's Life Plan - Catholic (Jeremiah 29:11)

Karol Wojtyła lost his mother at 9, his brother at 12, and his father at 20. The Nazis occupied his country; he worked in a quarry while secretly studying for the priesthood. He could not have imagined becoming Pope John Paul II.

Jeremiah 29:11Missionalmissionsent

Seek the Welfare of Your Mission Field - Missional (Jeremiah 29:11)

God told the exiles to "seek the peace of the city where I have sent you." Sent—even exile was mission. The exiles were to bless Babylon, pray for their captors, work for the city's good. Jeremiah 29:11's hope included missional vocation.

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Prophetic Promise - Charismatic (Jeremiah 29:11)

In charismatic circles, Jeremiah 29:11 is often spoken prophetically: "God says to you today: I have PLANS for you!" It's declaration, not just information. The Spirit makes ancient promises present and personal.