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The Heart Strangely Warmed on Aldersgate Street

On May 24, 1738, John Wesley walked through the streets of London as a defeated man. He had crossed the Atlantic to convert Native Americans...

Luke 24:13-35Universal

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The Telegram That Ended the Longest Night

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...

Luke 2:10-11Universal

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The Memorial Sewn Into the Coat

On the night of November 23, 1654, the brilliant mathematician Blaise Pascal sat alone in his room in Paris when something shattered his ordinary evening....

Luke 9:28b-36Universal

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The Voice That Broke Through the Static

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...

Luke 2:10-11Universal

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The Voice That Broke a Long Silence

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...

Luke 1:57-66, 80Universal

Devotional

Prayerful Clobbering the Clobber Texts

Father, when the lawyer stood before Jesus and asked, "Who is my neighbor?" he expected a safe answer — someone from his own synagogue, his own bloodline, his own side of the theological debate. Instead, Jesus told him about a...

Luke 10:25-37Traditional

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One More From the Ridge

On May 5, 1945, Private First Class Desmond Doss stood atop a jagged escarpment on Okinawa that soldiers had grimly nicknamed Hacksaw Ridge. His company...

Luke 15:3-7Universal

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The Doctor They Refused to Believe

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,...

Luke 4:21-30Universal

Devotional

Morning Meditation: Economic Justice and the Kingdom

Loving God, whose icon shines in every human face, This morning I sit with the story of the Samaritan road — that dusty stretch between Jerusalem and Jericho where a man lay stripped and bleeding, and two religious professionals crossed...

Luke 10:25-37Pentecostal

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Churchill's Vigil in the Darkest Hour

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...

Luke 21:25-36Universal

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The Bag by the Door

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...

Luke 12:32-40Universal

Devotional

Contemplating Science and Faith

Dear God of wounded hands and searching hearts, A seventeenth-century Anabaptist farmer in the Palatinate had no telescope, no microscope, no periodic table — yet he understood something that still escapes many of us. He knew that the same God...

Luke 10:25-37Anabaptist

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The Librarian Who Waited Forty Years

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...

Luke 2:22-40Universal

Theological Reflection

The Social Media and Community Question - Teaching Material

In the ever-evolving landscape of social media, we find ourselves at a crossroads that echoes the sentiments of Luke 8:1-3, where we see Jesus surrounded by a diverse community of women and disciples, each contributing their unique gifts to the...

Luke 8:1-3Anglican

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The Phone Call at 2 A.M.

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...

Luke 1:26-38Universal

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The Message From 240 Feet Below

On a July night in 2002, nine families huddled outside a pasture in Somerset County, Pennsylvania, waiting for news they feared would never come. Their...

Luke 2:10-11Universal

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The Old Man Who Lived to See It

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...

Luke 2:22-40Universal

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Five Loaves in a Church Kitchen

In 2019, Maria Hernandez stood in the kitchen of Grace Community Church in Tulsa, Oklahoma, staring at two casserole dishes and a slow cooker of...

Luke 9:11b-17Universal

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The Hen They Found After the Fire

In 2012, a wildfire swept through the foothills outside Colorado Springs, consuming over 340 homes in the Waldo Canyon blaze. When a rancher returned to...

Luke 13:31-35Universal

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Gladys Aylward's One-Way Ticket

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...

Luke 12:32-40Universal

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The Sunday School Teacher Who Almost Turned Back

On a spring day in 1855, Edward Kimball walked the streets of Boston with a single purpose — to find a young shoe clerk named...

Luke 15:3-7Universal

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The Mothers Who Marched in Circles

In 1977, during Argentina's military dictatorship, fourteen mothers walked to the Plaza de Mayo in Buenos Aires. They wore white headscarves and carried photographs of...

Luke 1:39-56Universal

Devotional

Quiet Time: Clobbering the Clobber Texts

Dear God of boundless mercy, This morning I open Luke's Gospel and find a lawyer testing Jesus with the oldest question in the book: "Who is my neighbor?" And instead of a tidy answer, Jesus tells the story of a...

Luke 10:25-37Pentecostal

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The First Song Before Sunrise

Ornithologists call it the dawn chorus. In the hours before sunrise, while darkness still blankets the landscape, a single bird begins to sing. It cannot...

Luke 2:10-11Universal

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