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90 illustrations across all 3 chapters
In April 1906, a one-eyed Black preacher named William Joseph Seymour stood in a converted stable on Azusa Street in Los Angeles and watched the...
In the summer of 1993, the small farming community of Hardin, Montana, watched the Bighorn River swell past its banks after weeks of relentless rain....
In 1904, in a rain-soaked Welsh mining village called Loughor, a sixteen-year-old named Evan Roberts stood up in a prayer meeting and wept openly for...
In April 1906, William J. Seymour — a one-eyed son of formerly enslaved parents from Centerville, Louisiana — stood in a converted stable on Azusa...
On April 9, 1906, at a small prayer meeting on Bonnie Brae Street in Los Angeles, something broke open that no one could contain. William...
In the summer of 1993, a drought gripped the farmland outside Broken Bow, Nebraska. For eleven weeks, the fields cracked and the cattle grew thin....
In 1997, forest ecologist Suzanne Simard discovered something remarkable beneath the floor of a British Columbia forest. Hidden under the soil, a vast web of...
In Chile's Atacama Desert — one of the driest places on earth — seeds lie buried beneath cracked, barren soil for years, sometimes decades. They...
In 1904, in the coal-dusted hills of Loughor, Wales, a twenty-six-year-old former miner named Evan Roberts stood in a small chapel and prayed with such...
In 2016, hydrologists in Edwards County, Texas, watched something remarkable unfold after years of drought. When the rains finally came to the Edwards Aquifer, the...
On certain nights in Mosquito Bay, Puerto Rico, the water catches fire — not with flame, but with light. Millions of dinoflagellates, single-celled organisms no...
In 1966, the Arno River in Florence, Italy, burst through every barrier the city had built over centuries. Floodwaters did not check credentials at the...
Every few years in California's Anza-Borrego Desert, something extraordinary happens. After a season of unusual rain, the barren landscape explodes overnight into a carpet of...
Teaching on Fasting from Tertullian: Tertullian on Stations: Fasting in Community
Teaching on Fasting from Leo the Great: Leo the Great on the Four Seasonal Fasts
Teaching on Fasting from John Chrysostom: Chrysostom on Fasting from Sin
Teaching on Fasting from Augustine of Hippo: Augustine on Fasting and the Heart
God who is enough, I fast today not to earn Your favor, but to remember that I already have it. In this physical hunger, awaken spiritual hunger. In this empty stomach, reveal the places in my soul that need filling—...
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