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39 illustrations for sermon preparation
In 2018, a young worship leader named Keisha drove three hours from Atlanta to her grandmother's house in rural Alabama. She had just learned she...
In 1939, Marian Anderson stood on the marble steps of the Lincoln Memorial and sang. The Daughters of the American Revolution had barred her from...
In the spring of 1924, Scottish sprinter Eric Liddell arrived in Paris for the Olympic Games as Britain's fastest man. Then he learned the 100-meter...
On February 7, 1837, sixteen-year-old Florence Nightingale sat in the garden of her family's estate at Embley Park and heard what she later described as...
When the phone rang at 2:14 on a Tuesday morning, Rachel Dominguez was grading seventh-grade essays at her kitchen table in Tulsa. The voice on...
In the spring of 1843, a former slave named Isabella Baumfree walked out of New York City carrying nothing but a pillowcase of belongings and...
In 1837, seventeen-year-old Florence Nightingale sat in the garden of her family's Hampshire estate and heard what she described as the voice of God calling...
On February 7, 1837, a sixteen-year-old named Florence Nightingale sat in the garden of her family's estate in Embley Park, Hampshire, and heard what she...
In 2019, speech therapist Maria Gutierrez worked with a patient at Houston Methodist Hospital — a retired schoolteacher named Harold Owens who hadn't spoken in...
In 1955, a soft-spoken seamstress named Rosa Parks boarded a city bus in Montgomery, Alabama. She was tired — not just physically, but soul-tired from...
In 1505, Martin Luther's father Hans had mapped out his son's entire future. Martin would study law, rise in society, and bring honor to the...
In 1977, during Argentina's military dictatorship, fourteen mothers walked to the Plaza de Mayo in Buenos Aires. They wore white headscarves and carried photographs of...
When Maria and Carlos Gutierrez adopted their daughter from foster care in Houston in 2019, everyone assumed they'd rename her. That's what families did —...
In 1725, the elders of Epworth, England, fully expected young Samuel Wesley Jr. to carry on the family's clerical legacy as the firstborn son. But...
In 2015, a twenty-three-year-old kindergarten teacher named Sarah from small-town Missouri received a phone call that made no sense. A nonprofit director asked if she...
When William Tyndale was born around 1494 in the rolling countryside of western England, no one recorded the event. His parents were unremarkable landholders. The...
In 2019, twenty-three-year-old Desiree Martinez sat in a county social worker's office in Bakersfield, California, staring at a manila folder. Inside were the records of...
In 1851, Sojourner Truth rose to speak at a women's rights convention in Akron, Ohio. She was a formerly enslaved woman with no formal education,...
In 2019, a young cellist named Sheku Kanneh-Mason performed at the wedding of Prince Harry and Meghan Markle before two billion viewers worldwide. But the...
In 1930, Gladys Aylward was a parlor maid in London — short, uneducated, and utterly unremarkable by the world's standards. When she applied to the...
In 1882, Pandita Ramabai stood in a Pune courtyard with nothing but a white widow's sari and a reputation for brilliance. She was twenty-three. Her...
In 2015, a twenty-three-year-old kindergarten teacher named Elena Aguilar sat in a folding chair at a community meeting in Flint, Michigan, listening to officials explain...
In December 1933, Dietrich Bonhoeffer stood before his congregation in London and said something that unsettled the room. He called Mary's Magnificat "the most passionate,...
In 2019, a young teacher named Rosa Gutierrez walked into her abuela's kitchen in San Antonio carrying a secret she hadn't told a soul. She'd...
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