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89 illustrations for sermon preparation
In 1873, a thirty-three-year-old Belgian priest named Father Damien de Veuster stepped off a cargo ship onto the shores of Molokai, Hawaii. He had volunteered...
For eleven years, Margaret Chen wrote letters to her sponsored child, Amara, in a small village outside Kigali, Rwanda. She sent photographs, birthday cards, handwritten...
In the autumn of 1785, William Wilberforce sat in a carriage traveling through the French countryside with Isaac Milner, a Cambridge professor and old friend....
In 2018, Dr. Sarah Shin left her tenured position at Georgetown University to move into a refugee apartment complex in Clarkston, Georgia — a town...
In 2014, Dr. Rachel Villanueva was performing a routine fellowship interview at Mount Sinai Hospital in New York when a young medical student named Marcus...
Maria Vasquez showed up to the University of Portland soccer tryouts in 2019 convinced she was invisible — a walk-on from a tiny high school...
At the core of the sun, hydrogen atoms fuse at 27 million degrees Fahrenheit — a violence so extreme that no human eye could witness...
Marcus Webb spent three years designing the Westfield Tower, a mixed-use complex in downtown Cleveland. He drew sightlines and traffic flows, calculated natural light angles,...
When William Wilberforce was a young member of Parliament in 1785, he found himself in spiritual crisis. Ambitious but restless, he secretly began reading the...
In 1873, a thirty-three-year-old Belgian priest named Damien de Veuster stepped off a boat onto Molokai, a Hawaiian island that had become a colony of...
In December 1904, fifteen-year-old Sundar Singh of Rampur, Punjab, was consumed with rage against Christianity. Grieving his mother's death and furious at the missionaries who...
In 2019, a woman named Grace Chen walked into a tiny coffee shop on Magnolia Street in Waco, Texas, three days after moving from Portland....
In 1855, Edward Kimball walked into a Boston shoe store with a single purpose: to speak to a teenage stock boy about Jesus. The young...
In January 1913, Cambridge mathematician G.H. Hardy opened an envelope postmarked from Madras, India. Inside were nine pages of mathematical formulas scrawled by an unknown...
In 2019, Marcus Chen walked into a coffee shop in Portland for what he thought was a routine job interview. He had almost not come....
In 1692, a physician named Georg Handel had no intention of letting his eight-year-old son pursue music. The boy was destined for law — a...
For three years, Marcus Chen wrote letters to his estranged daughter, Lily, after she moved to Osaka to teach English. He poured his heart onto...
In 1930, Gladys Aylward was a parlor maid in London — small in stature, plain in education, with no theological degree and no mission board...
When Dr. Amara Osei arrived in Harlan County, Kentucky, in 2019, the whispers started immediately. A physician from Ghana, practicing in a coal town of...
In 1885, a seven-year-old girl named Mary McLeod walked five miles each day to a one-room schoolhouse in Mayesville, South Carolina. She was the fifteenth...
In June 1849, seventeen-year-old Hudson Taylor wandered into his father's library in Barnsley, England, looking for something to pass the time. He picked up a...
In 1787, German physicist Ernst Chladni sprinkled fine sand across a metal plate and drew a violin bow along its edge. What happened next stunned...
In 1896, George Washington Carver was a quiet graduate student at Iowa State, content to tend his greenhouse experiments in obscurity. He had wandered for...
In 2019, a young woman named Cara walked into the public library in Asheville, North Carolina, not sure what she was looking for. She had...
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