Illustrations from Luke

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Twenty-Six Days in New York

In June 1939, Dietrich Bonhoeffer stepped off a ship in New York Harbor, leaving behind a Germany descending into madness. Friends had arranged everything —...

Luke 4:1-13Universal

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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

Seventeen Souls in a Welsh Chapel

In the autumn of 1904, twenty-six-year-old Evan Roberts was just a coal miner from Loughor, Wales, with no theological degree and no platform. He had...

Luke 5:1-11Universal

The Night Sewn Into His Coat

On the evening of November 23, 1654, Blaise Pascal — mathematician, physicist, one of the sharpest minds in France — encountered something his equations could...

Luke 9:28-36Universal

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

The Stone That Didn't Look Like Much

Dr. Helen Pratt spent forty-one years at the Gemological Institute of America in Carlsbad, California, examining stones. Over a hundred thousand passed through her hands....

Luke 2:22-40Universal

The First Light Over Tromsø

In the Norwegian city of Tromsø, above the Arctic Circle, the sun disappears entirely in late November. For nearly two months, the residents live under...

The Blueberry Woman of Route 9

Every Saturday morning in July, Martha Guidry set up a folding table at the end of her gravel driveway outside Houma, Louisiana. On it she...

Luke 6:38Universal

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

The Name on the Tablet

When Maria and Carlos Gutierrez adopted their daughter from foster care in Houston in 2019, everyone assumed they'd rename her. That's what families did —...

The Match Struck in Mammoth Cave

In 1838, explorer Stephen Bishop descended into Mammoth Cave in Kentucky carrying nothing but a lantern and a coil of rope. Deep in the cave...

Bonhoeffer's Last Crossing

In June 1939, Dietrich Bonhoeffer sat in a safe apartment in New York City, surrounded by colleagues who had arranged his escape from Nazi Germany....

Luke 13:31-35Universal

The Blacksmith's Son Who Became a Preacher

In 1725, the elders of Epworth, England, fully expected young Samuel Wesley Jr. to carry on the family's clerical legacy as the firstborn son. But...

Bonhoeffer and the Church That Split in Two

In May 1934, a young German pastor named Dietrich Bonhoeffer helped draft the Barmen Declaration, a document that drew a sharp line through the heart...

Luke 12:49-56Universal

The Yes That Changed Everything

In 2015, a twenty-three-year-old kindergarten teacher named Sarah from small-town Missouri received a phone call that made no sense. A nonprofit director asked if she...

Luke 1:26-38Universal

Luke 22:14-23:56Universal

The Last Words of Dietrich Bonhoeffer

On April 9, 1945, at Flossenbürg concentration camp, Lutheran pastor Dietrich Bonhoeffer knelt in prayer before his executioners. He had been arrested two years earlier...

The Deep Water Off Montauk

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...

Luke 5:1-11Universal

The Letter That Ended Eight Years of Silence

David Chen hadn't spoken to his father in eight years. The rift started over David's decision to leave the family accounting firm to attend seminary....

The Boy Who Knew Where He Belonged

In 2019, eleven-year-old Gitanjali Rao was named TIME Magazine's first-ever Kid of the Year. Her parents, Bharathi and Ram, had driven her to a science...

Luke 2:41-51aUniversal

The Farmer Who Planted What No One Expected

In 2014, Marcus Bridgewater left his corporate marketing job in Houston and did something his family couldn't understand. For three generations, the Bridgewaters had worked...

The News That Stopped the Night

The shepherds were deep in their third watch — that cold, nameless stretch between midnight and dawn when the hills outside Bethlehem were black and...

The First Light Over Longyearbyen

Every February in Longyearbyen, Norway — the northernmost town on earth — residents gather on the old hospital steps for a moment they have waited...

The Search Party on Ridgeline Trail

In March 2019, a three-year-old boy named Casey Hathaway wandered away from his grandmother's backyard in Craven County, North Carolina, and disappeared into dense woodland....

Luke 15:3-7Universal