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Illustrations from Luke

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When the Mountain Reveals What Was Always There

In 2010, art restorer Dianne Dwyer Modestini spent months carefully removing centuries of dark varnish and crude overpainting from a small panel attributed to Leonardo...

Luke 9:28b-36Universal

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Sermon Illustration

The Unsigned Lease

In 2019, twenty-three-year-old Desiree Martinez sat in a county social worker's office in Bakersfield, California, staring at a manila folder. Inside were the records of...

Luke 1:26-38Universal

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The Stranger at Table Nine

In 2019, a diner in Raleigh, North Carolina, called Clyde Cooper's BBQ had a regular they knew only as "the quiet man." He came in...

Luke 24:13-35Universal

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A Life Shaped in the Quiet

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...

Luke 1:57-66, 80Universal

Devotional

Devotional: Science and Faith

Dear God of all truth, who spoke the universe into being and still speaks in the quiet of a hospital room at three in the morning, I confess that I have sometimes drawn a line between what I can measure...

Luke 6:20-21Roman Catholic

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The Theologian Who Chose to Go Back

In June 1939, Dietrich Bonhoeffer sat in a New York apartment with every reason to stay. Friends had arranged a teaching position at Union Theological...

Luke 13:31-35Universal

Historical

When Liberation Required Patience

On July 22, 1862, Abraham Lincoln gathered his cabinet in the White House and read aloud a draft document that would reshape American history —...

Luke 4:18-19Universalfreedomjustice

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The Voice in the Ravine

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...

Luke 15:3-7Universal

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The Parlor Maid Who Crossed the Mountains

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...

Luke 1:26-38Universal

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The Soup Kitchen That Wouldn't Run Out

In 2012, a church in Moore, Oklahoma — a small congregation of maybe forty people — opened its doors the morning after an EF5 tornado...

Luke 9:11b-17Universal

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The Name on the Bracelet

When Maria Santos gave birth to her son at Mount Sinai Hospital in New York City, the nurses handed her a tiny plastic bracelet. On...

Luke 2:15-21Universal

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A Voice from the Margins That Shook the Room

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,...

Luke 1:39-56Universal

Movie Analogy

Lady Bird: Wanting More and Honoring Home (Luke 2:41-52)

In the film *Lady Bird*, we meet a spirited teenager named Christine, who insists on being called Lady Bird—a name she claims as her own, a declaration of her desire for independence and identity. In the bustling, sun-soaked streets of...

Luke 2:41-52Universalgrowing upmother-daughter

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The Weather Station on Grandfather Mountain

In 2018, meteorologist Katie Nickolaou noticed something odd on her monitors in Grand Rapids, Michigan. Barometric pressure was dropping fast, wind patterns were shifting in...

Luke 21:25-36Universal

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The Midwife Who Knew

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...

Luke 2:22-40Universal

Devotional

Daily The Bible is Not a Sex Manual

Loving God, You who spoke the universe into being and then called it *very good* — including the bodies You shaped from dust and breath — teach me to read Your Word the way You intended it: not as a...

Luke 6:20-21Reformed

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The Surgeon Who Handed Over the Scalpel

In 2019, Dr. Rana Awdish, a critical care physician at Henry Ford Hospital in Detroit, collapsed in the hallway of her own ICU. A ruptured...

Luke 5:1-11Universal

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The Man Who Turned Back on the Ice

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...

Luke 6:27-38Universal

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The Teenager Who Said Yes to History

In 1955, a soft-spoken seamstress named Rosa Parks boarded a city bus in Montgomery, Alabama. She was tired — not just physically, but soul-tired from...

Luke 1:26-38Universal

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The Name That Broke the Silence

In 1505, Martin Luther's father Hans had mapped out his son's entire future. Martin would study law, rise in society, and bring honor to the...

Luke 1:57-66, 80Universal

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The Unpacked Crates of San Simeon

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...

Luke 12:13-21Universal

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The Night Shift That Changed Everything

In 2018, a nurse named Rosa Delgado was working the overnight shift at a hospital in San Antonio when a colleague rushed in and said,...

Luke 2:15-21Universal

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The Casserole on the Doorstep

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...

Luke 6:27-38Universal

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When Freedom's News Finally Arrived

On June 19, 1865, Major General Gordon Granger stood on the balcony of Ashton Villa in Galveston, Texas, and read General Order No. 3 aloud...

Luke 2:10-11Universal

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