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Two illustrations of women touching Jesus: the sinful woman washing His feet (Luke 7) and the bleeding woman touching His cloak (Mark 5)—both showing how the unclean becomes holy through contact with Jesus.
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In Babette's Feast, two elderly Danish sisters take in Babette, a French refugee, as their cook. For fourteen years she serves them plain food. When she wins the lottery, she spends it all on one magnificent French feast for the...
In Spotlight, Boston Globe journalists uncover the Catholic Church's systematic cover-up of child abuse. They share their roof with survivors, listen to painful stories, bring hidden wickedness into light.
Mary, Mother of Jesus Mary, the wife of Joseph, was the virgin mother of Jesus. Luke tells us that as a young girl in Nazareth, Mary was betrothed to Joseph, a local carpenter.
Illustration connecting "God remembered" (Genesis 8:1) to the thief on the cross asking Jesus to "remember me" (Luke 23:42-43)—Jesus remembers those who turn to Him in faith.
James, Son of Zebedee James, son of Zebedee and brother of John, was one of the twelve apostles, and he was among the first to be killed as a follower of Jesus.
Martha, Mary, and Lazarus The sisters Martha and Mary lived with their brother Lazarus in Bethany, near Jerusalem; Jesus loved and spent time with this family.
In Gran Torino, Walt Kowalski is a racist Korean War veteran who despises his Hmong neighbors. When gang violence threatens the teenage boy next door, Walt—the last person who should help—becomes the unlikely savior. He gives his life protecting people he once hated.
In Coco, the dead truly die only when no one living remembers them. Héctor is fading because his daughter Coco, now elderly, is forgetting him. Miguel races to restore her memory before it's too late. "Remember me," the song pleads—a...
While our Lord spoke of the Holy Spirit's aid and the blessing of angels' acknowledgment, this hearer's mind never left his father's inheritance dispute.
While Peter, James, and John lay *drunken with sleep* during the earlier communion between Christ and the two mighty dead, they heard nothing.
The Kim family lives in a basement apartment that floods with sewage. The Park family lives on a hill in architectural splendor. When Ki-taek, the poor father, asks what the rich Mr. Park's plan is, he answers: "I never make plans.
The prohibition is not against reasonable foresight, but against anxious foreboding, that wretched state in which a man is 'rent asunder' by care.
Maclaren observes that this righteous man embodies the very purpose God pursued through millenniums of providential dealing and inspiration.
Thirty years later, when Jesus began His ministry, the wonder seemed utterly forgotten.
These heresy-hunters positioned themselves apart from the crowd at Peter's house, near enough to observe but far enough to demonstrate their separation from what they deemed vulgar enthusiasm.
Yet Luke captures something more profound than fearlessness: John's perfect humility before Christ.
These heresy-hunters positioned themselves apart from the crowd at Peter's house, sitting near enough to observe yet far enough to signal their superiority over the provincial peasants.
This is no mere coincidence of timing, but the visible sign of a profound spiritual principle: unbelief seals the mouth; faith unlocks it.
How could the man who saw the descending dove and heard the voice proclaim 'This is My beloved Son' ever waver?
He depicts "them that sit in darkness and the shadow of death"—not wanderers moving frantically, but travelers *benighted*, huddled together, afraid to move.
In Dallas Buyers Club, Ron Woodroof—a rodeo cowboy dying of AIDS—becomes an unlikely advocate for HIV patients. Homophobic and self-destructive, Ron initially wants only to save himself. But smuggling medicine transforms him. He befriends Rayon, a transgender woman he once would have despised.
In The Blind Side, Leigh Anne Tuohy sees a large Black teenager walking alone in the rain. She could drive past—most would. Instead, she stops. "Do you have a place to stay tonight?" Michael Oher becomes family. "Go and do...
In Patch Adams, Hunter Adams rejects sterile, detached medicine. He clowns in children's cancer wards, learns patients' names, treats people instead of diseases. The medical establishment calls him unprofessional. But his patients heal—sometimes in body, always in spirit. "It is...