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301 illustrations — Vivid stories and real-world analogies for sermon use
When the phone rang at 2:14 on a Tuesday morning, Rachel Dominguez was grading seventh-grade essays at her kitchen table in Tulsa. The voice on...
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In 1837, seventeen-year-old Florence Nightingale sat in the garden of her family's Hampshire estate and heard what she described as the voice of God calling...
In 1932, a London parlor maid named Gladys Aylward counted out her meager savings — just enough for a one-way train ticket to China. She...
On January 10, 2023, Anthony Ray Hinton walked into a church in Birmingham, Alabama, and told his story. He had spent nearly thirty years on...
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 spring of 1843, a former slave named Isabella Baumfree walked out of New York City carrying nothing but a pillowcase of belongings and...
In 2019, speech therapist Maria Gutierrez worked with a patient at Houston Methodist Hospital — a retired schoolteacher named Harold Owens who hadn't spoken in...
In 2011, when wildfires swept through Bastrop County, Texas, residents had minutes to evacuate. Margaret Hensley, a retired schoolteacher, grabbed one bag she kept packed...
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...
In the spring of 1940, Winston Churchill assumed leadership of Britain at what many believed was the end of civilization itself. France was falling. The...
In 1847, a young Hungarian physician named Ignaz Semmelweis made a discovery that should have changed medicine overnight. Working in Vienna General Hospital's maternity ward,...
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...
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...
William Randolph Hearst spent decades amassing one of the largest private art collections in history. From his castle perched above the California coastline, the newspaper...
In 2014, a retired midwife named Margaret Abrams sat in a church pew in Bristol, England, and watched a young couple carry their newborn son...
In 1851, Sojourner Truth rose to speak at a women's rights convention in Akron, Ohio. She was a formerly enslaved woman with no formal education,...
In 2019, a young cellist named Sheku Kanneh-Mason performed at the wedding of Prince Harry and Meghan Markle before two billion viewers worldwide. But the...
In 2018, a family in Greenville, South Carolina found their mailbox smashed and racial slurs spray-painted across their garage door. The Hendersons had moved into...
In 1930, Gladys Aylward was a parlor maid in London — short, uneducated, and utterly unremarkable by the world's standards. When she applied to the...
Captain Dave Ryba had fished the waters off Montauk, Long Island for twenty-three years. He knew every sandbar, every current, every spot where striped bass...
On a spring day in 1855, Edward Kimball walked the streets of Boston with a single purpose — to find a young shoe clerk named...
On the evening of November 23, 1654, Blaise Pascal — mathematician, physicist, one of the sharpest minds in France — encountered something his equations could...
On a bitter winter day in 1569, a Dutch Anabaptist named Dirk Willems squeezed through the window of his prison cell in Asperen, Holland. He...
In March of 2019, search and rescue volunteer Dale Hitchens spent fourteen hours combing the hills outside Gatlinburg, Tennessee, looking for a seventy-three-year-old woman named...