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301 illustrations — Vivid stories and real-world analogies for sermon use
In 2019, a Chicago journalist profiled a woman named Denise Williams who had spent eleven years standing on the same corner of Montrose Avenue every...
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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 May 1934, a young German pastor named Dietrich Bonhoeffer helped draft the Barmen Declaration, a document that drew a sharp line through the heart...
In 2019, a diner in Raleigh, North Carolina, called Clyde Cooper's BBQ had a regular they knew only as "the quiet man." He came in...
In 2018, meteorologist Katie Nickolaou noticed something odd on her monitors in Grand Rapids, Michigan. Barometric pressure was dropping fast, wind patterns were shifting in...
In 2010, art restorer Dianne Dwyer Modestini spent months carefully removing centuries of dark varnish and crude overpainting from a small panel attributed to Leonardo...
On June 19, 1865, Major General Gordon Granger stepped onto a balcony at Ashton Villa in Galveston, Texas, and read General Order No. 3 aloud...
In a small community on the outskirts of a bustling city, there was a vibrant church that became a refuge for those wrestling with their mental health. One day, a young woman named Sarah stepped through its doors, her heart...
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...
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 2018, a structural engineer named Carlos Mendez was inspecting a partially collapsed parking garage in Miami when he heard a child crying beneath the...
On April 9, 1945, at Flossenbürg concentration camp, Lutheran pastor Dietrich Bonhoeffer knelt in prayer before his executioners. He had been arrested two years earlier...
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 2015, twenty-six-year-old Stefanie Davis was stocking shelves at a grocery store in rural Kentucky when her phone buzzed. A social worker was on the...
In the Antarctic winter, an emperor penguin colony can number over ten thousand birds, all huddled together on the ice in a single dark mass...
In Advent of 1933, Dietrich Bonhoeffer stood before his small German-speaking congregation in London and made a stunning claim. Mary's song, he told them, was...
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...
In 1930, Gladys Aylward was a parlor maid in London — small in stature, unremarkable in the eyes of the world. When she applied to...
A few years ago, chef and restaurant owner Marcus Samuelsson told an interviewer about a lesson he learned from his grandmother in Ethiopia. She would...
In June 1939, Dietrich Bonhoeffer stood on the deck of a ship bound for New York. Friends in America had arranged everything — a teaching...
On a gray Tuesday in March, a woman named Rachel Chen sat in her car outside a liquor store in Portland, Oregon. She had been...
In 2019, eleven-year-old Gitanjali Rao was named TIME Magazine's first-ever Kid of the Year. Her parents, Bharathi and Ram, had driven her to a science...
In 2019, Maria Gonzalez stood in a hospital room in San Antonio, Texas, holding her newborn son. Her mother-in-law had already monogrammed blankets with the...
When Marcus and Elena Torres of San Antonio learned they were expecting their first child in 2019, everyone assumed the boy would be Marcus Antonio...