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447 illustrations — Vivid stories and real-world analogies for sermon use
For decades, doctors told patients with stomach ulcers the same thing: reduce your stress, change your diet, learn to relax. Millions of people rearranged their...
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By May of 1738, John Wesley had already been ordained for thirteen years. He had crossed the Atlantic to serve as a missionary in Georgia,...
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...
A few years back, I had the privilege of attending a local charity event where a talented artist was showcasing her work. As I walked around, one painting caught my eye—it was a breathtaking landscape. The colors danced across the...
In 2019, a middle school in Jacksonville, Florida, started something they called "No One Eats Alone Day." The idea was simple — students would intentionally...
In 1915, Ernest Shackleton watched the Antarctic ice slowly crush his ship, the *Endurance*, like a walnut in a vise. Stranded on frozen pack ice...
Margaret Chen's farmhouse kitchen table had been in her family for four generations. Her grandmother had kneaded bread on it. Her mother had taught six...
In 1878, Pandita Ramabai stood before the scholars of Calcutta — the first woman in India to earn the title "Pandita," a Sanskrit scholar of...
For eleven years, Maria Santos carried a secret through the doors of her church in San Antonio. She smiled during worship, volunteered in the nursery,...
When Marcus Chen transferred to a small branch office in Tupelo, Mississippi, he wanted nothing to do with the town. A software engineer from Seattle,...
When Marcus arrived at his fourth foster home in two years, he didn't bother unpacking his trash bag of clothes. He'd learned not to settle...
Sunlight travels ninety-three million miles through the vacuum of space, and for every one of those miles, it is invisible. No color. No warmth. No...
When Marcus Chen walked into a small coffee shop in Asheville, North Carolina, on his first day at a new job, the barista slid a...
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...
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...
In September 1928, Alexander Fleming returned to his London laboratory at St. Mary's Hospital after a summer holiday and noticed something peculiar. A petri dish...
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 2018, forensic pathologist Dr. Richard Shepherd published his memoir *Unnatural Causes*, recounting forty years of examining the dead. He observed that the most reliable...
In 2004, forensic pathologist Dr. Frederick Zugibe published his decades-long study of crucifixion at Columbia University. He had spent years analyzing what happens to the...
Maria Gonzalez spent fourteen years as a corporate attorney in Chicago, climbing every rung, collecting every accolade. Partner by forty-one. Corner office on the thirty-second...
In the summer of 1680, Scottish Covenanters gathered in secret on the windswept slopes of the Ayrshire moors, risking imprisonment and death for the simple...
Every morning for three years, Maria Gonzalez walked into the same coffee shop on MLK Boulevard in Memphis and ordered the same black coffee. She...
In 1939, Marian Anderson was denied the stage at Constitution Hall in Washington, D.C. The Daughters of the American Revolution refused to let a Black...
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...