Illustrations from John

The Old Slave Trader Who Saw a Young Man's Destiny

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...

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The Refugee Whose File Was Already Open

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...

John 1:43-51Universal

The Love That Stopped a Plague

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...

The Language She Finally Understood

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...

John 1:1-14Universal

More Than a Voice on the Phone

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...

John 1:1-14Universal

The Teacher Who Saw Her Reading in the Cotton Field

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...

John 14:27Dispensationalpeace

Lens Perspective

The Garden Between the Walls

In downtown Portland, a vacant lot sat wedged between a luxury condo development and a Section 8 housing complex. For years it collected broken glass...

The Week He Almost Didn't Return

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,...

John 20:19-31Universal

The Barista Whose Name Was Already on the Cup

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....

John 15:13Universalsacrificetruth

Theological Reflection

The Doctrine of Kindness - Church Context

When Jesus declares in John 14:6, “I am the way, the truth, and the life,” He invites us into a profound relationship characterized by kindness—a kindness that forms the very essence of our community as a church. This doctrine of...

John 14:6Roman Catholic

Historical

The Volunteers of Camp Lazear

In November 1900, at a small experimental station outside Havana, Cuba, Private John Kissinger stood before Major Walter Reed and spoke words that stunned the...

Breakfast After the Worst Shift of Your Life

In 2018, a young ER nurse named David Chen walked out of Mercy Hospital in Sacramento after losing his first patient — a teenager from...

John 21:1-19Universal

The Mother Who Prayed While Her Son Read the Tract

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...

John 14:1-6Baptistevangelismonly way

The Ultrasound on the Refrigerator

In March of 2019, David and Maria Solis pinned a grainy ultrasound photo to their refrigerator in San Antonio. The image was blurry — a...

1 John 3:1-3Universal

Movie Analogy

I Can Only Imagine: The Only Way Home - Baptist (John 14:1-6)

As the sun dipped below the horizon, casting a warm, golden glow across the hospital room, Bart Millard sat at the bedside of his father, Arthur, who was fighting the final battle against cancer. The air was thick with a...

adults

Historical

A Love That Would Not Let Go

On August 5, 1942, German soldiers surrounded the Dom Sierot orphanage in the Warsaw Ghetto and ordered its nearly two hundred children deported. Their director,...

John 15:13Universalsacrificelove

The Carpenter's Hands on Moving Day

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,...

Moravian Love That Changed the World

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...

John 13:31-35Universal

The Refugee Doctor Nobody Expected to Find in Rural Kentucky

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...

John 14:6Progressive/Social Justice

The Example of Self-control - Story

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...

Contemporary

A Brother's Gift on the Operating Table

On December 23, 1954, twenty-three-year-old Ronald Herrick lay on an operating table at Peter Bent Brigham Hospital in Boston, perfectly healthy, waiting to be cut...

John 15:13Universalsacrificenew life

The Soup That Kept Showing Up

When Marcus Chen was diagnosed with ALS in 2019, his neighbors in a small subdivision outside Raleigh, North Carolina, didn't organize a single grand fundraiser...

The Casserole Brigade of Maple Street

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...