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301 illustrations — Vivid stories and real-world analogies for sermon use
When Maria Santos gave birth to her son at Mount Sinai Hospital in New York City, the nurses handed her a tiny plastic bracelet. On...
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Every year, the Rotary Club of Decatur, Georgia hosts its annual awards banquet at the old Courtyard ballroom on Ponce de Leon Avenue. The front...
In 2018, a nurse named Rosa Delgado was working the overnight shift at a hospital in San Antonio when a colleague rushed in and said,...
In 1918, Tokichi Ishii sat in a Tokyo prison cell awaiting execution. He had killed multiple people without remorse, and guards called him the most...
On June 19, 1865, Major General Gordon Granger stood on the balcony of Ashton Villa in Galveston, Texas, and read General Order No. 3 aloud...
On the night of November 23, 1654, Blaise Pascal — the brilliant French mathematician who had calculated the weight of air and invented the mechanical...
In 1838, explorer Stephen Bishop descended into Mammoth Cave in Kentucky carrying nothing but a lantern and a coil of rope. Deep in the cave...
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 June 1939, Dietrich Bonhoeffer stepped off a ship in New York Harbor, leaving behind a Germany descending into madness. Friends had arranged everything —...
In 2019, Dr. Rana Awdish, a critical care physician at Henry Ford Hospital in Detroit, collapsed in the hallway of her own ICU. A ruptured...
In 1847, a young Hungarian physician named Ignaz Semmelweis made a startling discovery at Vienna General Hospital. He noticed that women in the maternity ward...
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 June 1939, Dietrich Bonhoeffer sat in a New York apartment with every reason to stay. Friends had arranged a teaching position at Union Theological...
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...
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...
In the autumn of 1904, twenty-six-year-old Evan Roberts was just a coal miner from Loughor, Wales, with no theological degree and no platform. He had...
Dr. Helen Pratt spent forty-one years at the Gemological Institute of America in Carlsbad, California, examining stones. Over a hundred thousand passed through her hands....
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...
In October 1731, a young Moravian named Johann Leonard Dober attended a gathering in Herrnhut, Germany, where he heard Count Nikolaus von Zinzendorf describe the...
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...
In June 1939, Dietrich Bonhoeffer sat in a safe apartment in New York City, surrounded by colleagues who had arranged his escape from Nazi Germany....
In 2012, a church in Moore, Oklahoma — a small congregation of maybe forty people — opened its doors the morning after an EF5 tornado...
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...
Every Saturday morning in July, Martha Guidry set up a folding table at the end of her gravel driveway outside Houma, Louisiana. On it she...