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447 illustrations — Vivid stories and real-world analogies for sermon use
On May 20, 1916, three filthy, hollow-eyed men stumbled into the Stromness whaling station on South Georgia Island. Their clothes hung in shreds. Their faces...
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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...
In August 1727, a fractured community of religious refugees gathered at Herrnhut, a small estate in Saxony owned by Count Nikolaus Ludwig von Zinzendorf. These...
In 2018, a young woman named Maria sat in a consultation room at Johns Hopkins, terrified. She'd been diagnosed with a rare heart condition requiring...
In 2018, Maria Santos walked into a community center in Tucson, Arizona, carrying two gallons of water she'd hauled from a distribution point six blocks...
In 1904, sixteen-year-old William Borden graduated from a prestigious Chicago prep school as heir to the Borden dairy fortune. His family sent him on a...
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, 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 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...
Margaret Chen had lived alone in her apartment on Birch Street for eleven years after her husband passed. When the building was condemned last October,...
In 2018, a young ER nurse named David Chen walked out of Mercy Hospital in Sacramento after losing his first patient — a teenager from...
In December of 390 AD, Emperor Theodosius rode toward the cathedral in Milan, expecting to enter as he always had — unchallenged, unchecked, draped in...
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....
When Dave Hernandez collapsed in the produce aisle of the Kroger on Fifth and Elm, he had no church, no family in town, and a...
After his wife died, Marcus Williams stopped attending Grace Community Church in Decatur, Georgia. He sat in his living room for six Sundays, curtains drawn,...
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...
Margaret Chen had lived on Maple Street for forty-one years, but she had never once knocked on her neighbor's door. Then her husband died on...
In 2014, a middle school in Nashville made national news — not for test scores or athletics, but for a cafeteria table. Twelve-year-old Marcus Thompson...
In 1873, a young Belgian priest named Father Damien arrived on the Hawaiian island of Molokai, home to a leper colony where the government had...
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 362 AD, the Roman Emperor Julian set out to destroy Christianity — not with lions or fire, but by trying to out-love the church....
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 2010, a young mother named Clara Benitez sat in a hospital waiting room in Houston, clutching her phone, watching the minutes crawl by. Her...
In 251 AD, a devastating epidemic swept through the Roman Empire. Historians call it the Plague of Cyprian, and at its peak, it killed five...