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Illustrations from Luke

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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

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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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Breaking Through Every Channel

On August 15, 1945, Emperor Hirohito's voice came over the radio for the very first time. Across the Pacific theater, American soldiers in foxholes and...

Luke 2:10-11Universal

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The Midnight Shift at Jodrell Bank

In 1957, a young radio astronomer named Bernard Lovell stood beneath the massive dish of Jodrell Bank Observatory in Cheshire, England, waiting. For years, skeptics...

Luke 21:25-36Universal

Devotional

Quiet Time: Inclusive Language for God

Dear God of a Thousand Names, You are the One whom Moses met in fire and wind, who answered to "I AM" because no single word could hold You. You are the Father who runs down the road to embrace...

Luke 4:18-19Arminian/Wesleyan

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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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A Voice Restored in Ward 7B

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...

Luke 1:57-66, 80Universal

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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 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

Evening Prayer: Technology and Human Connection

Lord, at the close of this day I lay my phone face-down on the nightstand and open my hands to You. I scrolled past fourteen faces today — a former classmate battling cancer, a neighbor asking for meal-train volunteers, a...

Luke 6:20-21Missional

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The Moravians Who Would Not Wait

In October 1731, a young Moravian named Johann Leonard Dober attended a gathering in Herrnhut, Germany, where he heard Count Nikolaus von Zinzendorf describe the...

Luke 2:15-21Universal

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The Empty Chair at Table Nine

Every year, the Rotary Club of Decatur, Georgia hosts its annual awards banquet at the old Courtyard ballroom on Ponce de Leon Avenue. The front...

Luke 14:1, 7-14Universal

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The Fisherman's Son Who Came Home

Maria Constantinou had not slept a full night in fourteen months. Not since her son Dimitri's fishing boat vanished in a storm off the coast...

Luke 2:10-11Universal

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The Parchment Sewn Into the Coat

On the night of November 23, 1654, Blaise Pascal — the brilliant French mathematician who had calculated the weight of air and invented the mechanical...

Luke 9:28-36Universal

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The Murderer Who Met Grace on Death Row

In 1918, Tokichi Ishii sat in a Tokyo prison cell awaiting execution. He had killed multiple people without remorse, and guards called him the most...

Luke 22:14-23:56Universal

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The Weight He Chose to Carry

In 2018, a structural engineer named Carlos Mendez was inspecting a partially collapsed parking garage in Miami when he heard a child crying beneath the...

Luke 22:14-23:56Universal

Movie Analogy

Parasite: The Smell You Cannot Wash Away (Amos 5:21-24)

In the gripping film *Parasite*, there's a haunting moment when the wealthy Parks family begins to notice an inexplicable odor surrounding their new housekeepers, the Kims. It’s a smell that lingers, a blend of cheap soap and dampness—a reminder of...

Amos 5:21-24Universalinequalityclass

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The Day the Words Became Real

On June 19, 1865, Major General Gordon Granger stepped onto a balcony at Ashton Villa in Galveston, Texas, and read General Order No. 3 aloud...

Luke 4:14-21Universal

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The Mental Health and Spirituality Challenge - Contemporary Example

In a small community on the outskirts of a bustling city, there was a vibrant church that became a refuge for those wrestling with their mental health. One day, a young woman named Sarah stepped through its doors, her heart...

Luke 4:18-19Traditional

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The Mother on Montrose Avenue

In 2019, a Chicago journalist profiled a woman named Denise Williams who had spent eleven years standing on the same corner of Montrose Avenue every...

Luke 13:31-35Universal

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The Doctor His Colleagues Drove Away

In 1847, a young Hungarian physician named Ignaz Semmelweis made a startling discovery at Vienna General Hospital. He noticed that women in the maternity ward...

Luke 4:21-30Universal

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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

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The Child from the Gloucestershire Hills

When William Tyndale was born around 1494 in the rolling countryside of western England, no one recorded the event. His parents were unremarkable landholders. The...

Luke 1:57-66, 80Universal

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