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89 illustrations for sermon preparation
In the autumn of 1785, a young Member of Parliament named William Wilberforce was in spiritual crisis. His recent conversion had left him torn —...
In 2019, Marcus Thompson was a lanky fifteen-year-old shooting free throws alone at a cracked outdoor court in Flint, Michigan. He had no AAU team,...
For two years, six-year-old Emma Reyes knew her father only as a voice on a satellite phone. Staff Sergeant David Reyes had deployed to Afghanistan...
In 1785, a twenty-five-year-old member of Parliament named William Wilberforce sat in the parlor of John Newton, the aging rector of St. Mary Woolnoth in...
In 2019, a young woman named Lucia drove her sputtering Civic into a small repair shop in Albuquerque, New Mexico. She had never been there...
In June 1849, seventeen-year-old Hudson Taylor wandered into his father's library in Barnsley, Yorkshire, looking for something to pass the time. He picked up a...
In the summer of 386 AD, a restless rhetoric professor named Augustine sat weeping beneath a fig tree in a Milan garden. For years, he...
In 2019, Marcus Delgado transferred to a firehouse in rural East Tennessee, skeptical that a small-town station could offer him anything after twelve years in...
In 2019, a fourteen-year-old girl named Maya sat in a group home in Columbus, Ohio, convinced nobody was coming for her. She had aged out...
In 2019, a young couple in Asheville, North Carolina, hired architect Dana Morales to design their first home. During the initial consultation, they handed over...
In 2019, a Syrian family arrived at a resettlement office in Louisville, Kentucky, exhausted from eighteen months of waiting. The father, Marwan Haddad, carried a...
In 2014, a young woman named Priya Chandran walked into a community college writing class in Fresno, California, convinced she had nothing worth saying. She...
In 2019, Dr. Marcus Chen was reviewing applications for a competitive surgical residency at Johns Hopkins. Hundreds of files crossed his desk — transcripts, essays,...
In 1855, twenty-two-year-old Hudson Taylor arrived in Shanghai wearing a black English suit and speaking not a word of Mandarin. The Chinese people regarded him...
When Martin Luther King Jr. arrived at Morehouse College in 1944, he was just fifteen years old — a skinny kid from Atlanta who had...
In 1725, a young Scottish craftsman named James Short began grinding lenses in Edinburgh, unknown to anyone beyond his small parish. He had no patron,...
Midway through rehearsal at Carnegie Hall, the musicians expected the composer to stay on the podium. He had written every note — the thunder of...
Walk into any forest in October and pick up an acorn. Hold it in your palm — it weighs almost nothing. Yet inside that small,...
In April 1855, Edward Kimball paced the sidewalk outside Holton's Shoe Store in Boston, nearly talking himself out of going inside. His Sunday school student,...
For fourteen months, the Reyes family in Fort Bragg, North Carolina, lived on letters. Staff Sergeant Marco Reyes wrote home every week from his deployment...
In 1885, a young Black man named George Washington Carver applied to Highland College in Kansas. He was accepted by mail, but when he arrived...
In 1929, C.S. Lewis sat in his rooms at Magdalen College, Oxford, convinced that God was closing in on him. He had spent years building...
In 1896, George Washington Carver was finishing his master's degree at Iowa State Agricultural College — the first Black student to earn one there. He...
Margaret Chen had been writing letters to her grandson in Beijing for eleven years. Every month, she sat at her kitchen table in Portland, choosing...
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