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33 illustrations for sermon preparation
In a small town, there lived a young woman named Sarah, who seemed to have it all—friends, a promising career, and a loving family. Yet, deep inside, she was restless. She had found herself drawn to the glow of social...
Worship is often misunderstood as merely an hour we spend in song and prayer on Sundays, but it is so much more than that. Let me tell you about Robert, a construction worker whose life became a canvas of worship....
In 1748, John Newton was a wretch by his own admission — a slave trader, a blasphemer, a young man who had squandered every advantage...
In August 1916, Ernest Shackleton stood on the deck of the Chilean tug *Yelcho*, scanning the frozen horizon of Elephant Island through binoculars. Twenty-two of...
In April 1916, Ernest Shackleton stood on the frozen shore of Elephant Island and faced an impossible choice. Twenty-two of his men were stranded on...
In the heart of our bustling world, faithfulness can feel like a fragile thread, easily frayed by distractions and demands. Yet, as we ponder the parable of the Prodigal Son in Luke 15:11-32, we find ourselves immersed in a story...
In our fast-paced world, we often find ourselves struggling to recognize the sacred moments that surround us—those divine whispers that guide our hearts and decisions. Just as the prodigal son wandered far from home in Luke 15:11-32, searching for fulfillment...
In the winter of 1865, William Booth walked through the Whitechapel district of East London and couldn't shake what he saw. The gin-soaked streets were...
In 2019, a diner owner in Tuscaloosa, Alabama named Gerald Tate got a call from the county jail. His daughter Marissa — the one who...
In 1668, in a cramped Amsterdam apartment, a bankrupt old painter picked up his brush one last time. Rembrandt van Rijn had once been the...
In August 1916, Ernest Shackleton stood on the deck of the Chilean steamer *Yelcho*, scanning the frozen horizon of Elephant Island through binoculars. This was...
In 2019, a high school basketball coach in Memphis named Penny Hardaway noticed that Marcus, a quiet sophomore who had been showing up faithfully to...
In 1668, a bankrupt and grieving Rembrandt van Rijn picked up his brush to paint what would become his final masterpiece: *The Return of the...
In 1873, a young Belgian priest named Damien De Veuster stepped off a boat onto the shores of Kalaupapa, a remote peninsula on the Hawaiian...
In 2019, a high school cross-country coach in rural Oregon named Dave Turnbow was loading his team onto the bus after a meet in Bend...
An Emperor penguin colony on the Antarctic ice shelf can number over forty thousand birds. They look virtually identical — same height, same tuxedo markings,...
Every winter in Antarctica, a mother emperor penguin returns from months of feeding at sea to a colony of tens of thousands — a roaring,...
In the small fishing village of Crail, on the eastern coast of Scotland, everyone knew Margaret Beattie. Eighty-three years old, sharp-tongued, fiercely independent, and in...
Maria Gutierrez counted heads on the bus three times before it pulled away from Riverside Park. Nineteen. She counted again. Nineteen. Her stomach dropped. There...
Margaret Dawson drove Bus 14 for the Calhoun County school district for thirty-one years. Every afternoon, she counted heads before pulling away from Ridgeview Elementary....
When Marcus Webb's seventeen-year-old daughter didn't come home from the Friday night football game, he didn't wait until morning. He called her phone — no...
When Ernest Shackleton's Antarctic expedition collapsed in 1916, he was forced to leave twenty-two men stranded on desolate Elephant Island while he sailed eight hundred...
On May 5, 1945, Private First Class Desmond Doss stood atop a jagged escarpment on Okinawa that soldiers had grimly nicknamed Hacksaw Ridge. His company...
In 2019, a three-year-old boy named Christopher Ramirez wandered away from his family's home in Grimes County, Texas, following a neighbor's dog into dense woods....
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