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The Farmer Who Planted What No One Expected

In 2014, Marcus Bridgewater left his corporate marketing job in Houston and did something his family couldn't understand. For three generations, the Bridgewaters had worked...

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The Heart That Never Hoards

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The Fourteen-Year-Old Who Chose the Church

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The First Heartbeat on the Screen

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Luke 2:10-11Universal

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The Composer Who Found His Voice Again

In April 1737, George Frideric Handel collapsed in his London home. A stroke paralyzed his right side and, by some accounts, temporarily clouded his mind....

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The Watchman of Bletchley Park

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Luke 2:22-40Universal

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When God Renames the Future

In 1843, a woman born into slavery as Isabella Baumfree stunned everyone who knew her. After decades of answering to a name given by masters,...

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The Pastor Who Called Mary's Song Dangerous

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The Sanskrit Scholar Who Had Nothing

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The Emperor Penguin's Call

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The Volunteer Nobody Expected

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The Choir of the Ordinary

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The Night Marcus Counted Twice

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The Widow Who Walked Back Into the Jungle

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The River That Feeds Itself

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Luke 6:38Universal

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Thirty-Seven Trillion to One

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Luke 6:17-26Universal

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