Illustrations from Jeremiah

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...

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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...

Jeremiah 33:14-16Universal

Jeremiah 31:27-34Universal

The Slave Who Could Finally Read

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...

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...

Jeremiah 1:4-10Universal

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...

Jeremiah 2:4-13Universal

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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....

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...

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 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...

Jeremiah 1:4-10Universal

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....

The Olympic Champion in the Prison Camp

Eric Liddell won Olympic gold in Paris in 1924, his story later immortalized in *Chariots of Fire*. But his greatest race was run behind barbed...

Application Point

Living Out Grace - Teaching Material

Jeremiah 29:11 speaks to the heart of our understanding of grace and purpose: "For I know the plans I have for you," declares the Lord, "plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and...

Jeremiah 29:11Anabaptist

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 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 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...

Jeremiah 29:5-7Universalimmigrantexile

Movie Analogy

Minari: Flourishing Where We're Planted (Jeremiah 29:5-7)

In the heart of rural Arkansas, a Korean-American family embarks on a journey that feels both hopeful and daunting. Jacob, the father, dreams of farming in this unfamiliar land, yearning to build a life that honors both his ambitions and...

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,...

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...

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...

Jeremiah 2:4-13Universal

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

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 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....