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301 illustrations — Vivid stories and real-world analogies for sermon use
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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In March 2019, a three-year-old boy named Casey Hathaway wandered away from his grandmother's backyard in Craven County, North Carolina, and disappeared into dense woodland....
Susanna Wesley raised nineteen children in a cramped Epworth rectory in early eighteenth-century England. The woman never lacked for Martha's kind of work. There were...
In February 1813, Elizabeth Fry walked through the iron gates of London's Newgate Prison and into a scene that made seasoned guards flinch. Three hundred...
David Chen hadn't spoken to his father in eight years. The rift started over David's decision to leave the family accounting firm to attend seminary....
Your heart pumps roughly 2,000 gallons of blood every single day — enough to fill a backyard swimming pool every week. And here is what...
Every February in Longyearbyen, Norway — the northernmost town on earth — residents gather on the old hospital steps for a moment they have waited...
In 1920, the Bonhoeffer household in Berlin buzzed with academic ambition. Karl Bonhoeffer was Germany's leading psychiatrist. His older sons pursued careers in law and...
In the dim room of a prenatal clinic, a technician presses the ultrasound wand against a young mother's abdomen. The screen shows grey static, formless...
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....
In 1939, a retired classics scholar named Alfred Dillwyn Knox had spent decades studying ancient papyri, patiently deciphering fragments that most academics dismissed as unreadable....
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,...
In December 1933, Dietrich Bonhoeffer stood before his congregation in London and said something that unsettled the room. He called Mary's Magnificat "the most passionate,...
In 1882, Pandita Ramabai stood in a Pune courtyard with nothing but a white widow's sari and a reputation for brilliance. She was twenty-three. Her...
Every winter in Antarctica, emperor penguins crowd together in colonies of forty thousand or more — a churning sea of identical black-and-white bodies huddled against...
In 2015, a twenty-three-year-old kindergarten teacher named Elena Aguilar sat in a folding chair at a community meeting in Flint, Michigan, listening to officials explain...
In 2019, a video went viral of a young cashier at a Walmart in Tuscaloosa, Alabama, quietly singing hymns while scanning groceries. She wasn't performing....
Thomas Whitfield had been ranching outside Amarillo for thirty-one years, and he knew his sheep the way a father knows his children — by sound,...
In January 1958, Elisabeth Elliot packed her bags, gathered her three-year-old daughter Valerie, and flew back into the Ecuadorian rainforest — to live among the...
The Dead Sea and the Sea of Galilee sit barely sixty miles apart in the same Jordan River valley, fed by the same water source....
Your body contains roughly thirty-seven trillion cells. When just one sends a distress signal — a single cell damaged by infection or injury — your...
In March 2018, a three-year-old boy named Casey Hathaway wandered away from his grandmother's backyard in Craven County, North Carolina, and disappeared into dense, freezing...
In 2019, a Manhattan restaurant called Rethink Food began collecting surplus meals from high-end kitchens along Park Avenue and delivering them to homeless shelters across...
In 1732, two young Moravian men — Leonard Dober and David Nitschmann — stood on a dock in Copenhagen with almost nothing. They had volunteered...