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40 illustrations for sermon preparation
The sermon illustration reflects on the misunderstood innkeeper of Bethlehem, emphasizing that the true question of Advent is whether we have room in our lives for Christ. It encourages believers to create space in their hearts for God's presence, even amidst the busyness of life, highlighting that sometimes the greatest gifts come from our perceived inadequacies.
The sermon illustration reflects on the misunderstood innkeeper of Bethlehem, emphasizing the need to create space in our lives for Jesus amidst our busy schedules. It challenges listeners to consider what they might need to clear out to welcome God's presence, highlighting that even humble beginnings can lead to profound gifts.
On January 12, 2010, a 7.0 magnitude earthquake leveled Port-au-Prince, Haiti. In the days that followed, rescue teams from around the world dug through collapsed...
On March 14, 2019, a family of eleven packed the third-floor waiting room at Baptist Memorial Hospital in Memphis, Tennessee. Rosa Gutierrez had been in...
On August 25, 1944, after four years of Nazi occupation, Allied troops rolled into Paris. For years, Parisians had lived under a gray silence —...
Marcus Webb was three hours into a twelve-hour security shift at a paper mill in Covington, Georgia — walking the same fence line he'd walked...
On December 24, 1944, Corporal Eddie Gruber huddled in a frozen foxhole outside Bastogne, Belgium. His unit was surrounded. German forces had cut every supply...
On June 19, 1865, General Gordon Granger arrived in Galveston, Texas, and read aloud General Order No. 3: all enslaved people in the state were...
On August 5, 2010, the San José copper mine in Chile's Atacama Desert collapsed, trapping thirty-three miners beneath two thousand feet of rock. For seventeen...
On November 11, 1918, Private Arthur Brooks huddled in a muddy trench near Verdun, France. For four years, the Western Front had been a landscape...
On January 15, 2009, passengers on US Airways Flight 1549 braced for impact as Captain Chesley "Sully" Sullenberger glided their crippled Airbus onto the Hudson...
On June 19, 1865, Union Major General Gordon Granger stood on the balcony of Ashton Villa in Galveston, Texas, and read General Order No. 3...
On October 17, 2010, a billion people around the world held their breath. For sixty-nine days, thirty-three miners had been trapped two thousand feet beneath...
On July 26, 1833, a frail and nearly blind William Wilberforce lay in his bed on Cadogan Place, London. For forty-six years he had fought...
In 1953, a young ornithologist named Don Merton traveled to Big South Cape Island off the coast of New Zealand to document a bird most...
In 1787, a young British parliamentarian named William Wilberforce first introduced a motion to abolish the slave trade. It failed. He introduced it again the...
On December 11, 1941, four days after Pearl Harbor, a young Navy wife named Clara Hodges sat in her kitchen in San Diego, hands trembling...
On August 15, 1945, Emperor Hirohito's voice came over the radio for the very first time. Across the Pacific theater, American soldiers in foxholes and...
On a July night in 2002, nine families huddled outside a pasture in Somerset County, Pennsylvania, waiting for news they feared would never come. Their...
In 1983, Margaret Chen began volunteering at the Oak Park Public Library in Chicago, shelving books in the children's section every Tuesday and Thursday. She...
On May 8, 1945, a Western Union operator named Elizabeth Phillips sat at her switchboard in a small Missouri telegraph office when the message clattered...
In the Norwegian city of Tromsø, above the Arctic Circle, the sun disappears entirely in late November. For nearly two months, the residents live under...
Ornithologists call it the dawn chorus. In the hours before sunrise, while darkness still blankets the landscape, a single bird begins to sing. It cannot...
Maria Constantinou had not slept a full night in fourteen months. Not since her son Dimitri's fishing boat vanished in a storm off the coast...
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